"Mike Marlow" wrote in news:b4b6a$4ff1ad15
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Yeahbut social changes outside of the government are as responsible for
things as the government - or perhaps more so. People became more "me"
focused and less concerned for others around them. He who dies with the
most toys and all that crap.

Guy in our church has a bumper sticker that says "He who dies with the most toys -- DIES."