04/19/05

The overwhelming body of government work is unnecessary. There hasn't been a legitimate federal military action since The War of 1812 and that may have been unnecessary, also. The closest was the attack on Pearl Harbor that ushered us into World War II but today historians accept that we provoked the Japanese into attacking us through policies that were designed to do just that. We're all paying for this, of course, but not just through taxes to support these bureaucrats, etc. If the damage was confined to their salaries, it might be tolerable. I'd almost be willing to have the government pay their salaries and benefits but it's the effects of their jobs that bother me...

http://www.libertyforall.net/2005/may1/industrialists.html

from Liberty For All, by Roderick T. Beaman


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp