I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show jim rozen
wrote back on 7 Sep 2004 22:04:17 -0700 in
rec.crafts.metalworking :
In article , pyotr filipivich
says...

Right about now, the whole idea of a limited Federal Government is far
too radical for most people.

And at the head of that list would be the folks who currently
inhabit the white house at the moment.

I'd consider them to be more favorably disposed to the idea, in "an
interesting concept, a notion, a good idea but not really practical" sort
of way, than the Democrats, who might mouth the words "The era of big
government is over" but what they mean by that is more along the lines of
"the days of spending money on the military hardware are over" than any
actual attempt to shrink the government. After all, if it weren't for the
Government, who would set wages? Who would fund the arts, cultural events,
radio, TV? Who would see that children are fed at school, schools are run,
taxes are collected and the government employees get paid on time?

tschus
pyotr
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pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."