"Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
news:3ED898BF.66072FC1@yahoo.co.jp...
> 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?

Your terms are tripping over themselves. A state or nation necessitates a
government in order to be defined as a state or a nation. Can a group of
people function on their own without being governed? I believe so.
Unfortunately, government is darwinian. Take one away and another one pops
up. Put two people together and one will want to tell the other what to do.

> > A perfect world would have no politicians.
>
> What perfect world are you referring to? EdWorld?

ThoreauWorld might be a better word, but I can live with 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.

What benefits does government (I assume we're talking about Japan here. I
certainly derive no benefits from the American government) provide for me?

Remember, cool plumbers who wear plastic white loafers have done plumbing
without having a member of the government hold their ladders before now.

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

If the subject is government, then let's talk about government. Contractors
and employees do not necessitate a government for them to be considered
contractors and employees.

> 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?

"national" highway system? How is it paid for? Jeeez!!!! Don't you know your
own country's history? Railroads, toll roads, gold, silver, coin of the
realm, clam shells, pecks of pickled peppers... hint, hint, hint.

As I stated previously, if you precisely and correctly define your terms,
you wouldn't be making all of these errors. A government does not build
highway systems, nor do they build cars and sell cigarettes. Governments
merely regulate them.