Ed wrote:

> A good leader is like a tube of preparation H. If it weren't for a
> hemmorhoid, you wouldn't need the tube.

Do you actually believe an entire state or nation would be able to function
without management or decisions made for it or on their behalf?

> A perfect world would have no politicians.

What perfect world are you referring to? EdWorld?

> A slightly less than perfect
> world would have powerless politicians. We don't want to give them time for
> their measures and reforms to take effect.
>
>  Laws may be passed years in advance. It's bad enough
> > that an Administration's work gets screwed up after just four or eight
> years.
>
> Why is it that I don't feel sorry for all those poor administrations that
> get screwed after four or eight years?

Because you are confused. You relieve yourself of responsibility to do things
such as vote in your own country, and claim government should not exist, yet
enjoy the benefits the government provides. You have a cool plumber, but you
didn't go out and hire yourself someone to lay down the highway for you to
drive to Tokyo.

> > > Hell, if it was really up to me, we wouldn't have presidents, prime
> > > ministers or emporers. We'd just have jungle laws whereby if you're too
> old,
> > > you'd best hope you've managed to make enough friends that you don't get
> > > your ass kicked by the biggest and baddest gorilla who currently
> occupies
> > > the top of the hill.
> >
> > Yes, that is simple enough to envision. You could also go back to living
> in a
> > cave as well as you could hunting your own food and defending your own
> family
> > and property with sharp rocks and sticks as it was for perhaps millions of
> > years. Now how would a modern, nationwide or international society
> continue to
> > function without a government as under a president, prime minister, or
> emperor,
> > or consistency of greater than one year?
>
> Governments do not produce anything. People produce things. Government, by
> it's very definition, cannot produce anything.

Do government officials, employees, or contractors, as people, produce
anything?

In your perfect world where people can be trusted to look after themselves, who
builds the national highway system and how is it paid for?