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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
No epiphany to me. Just a reminder.
However, many people seem to think that government is all beneficent, and seeks only good for all the citizens. I just used the Wikileaks story to hopefully cause some of them to think about basic assumptions of the goodness of government.
As Representative Barny Frank said in his Town Hall meeting this past summer in response to a voter complaining that she didn't feel she could trust her government anymore. " Whoever told you to trust your government?"
Its was one of the most revealing thing I ever heard him say.
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I had the same reaction. We all know that people in the government speak in half-truths, and never say what they are actually thinking, for fear that they'll offend somebody.
The surprise to me is the degree of the lying and deceipt.
While I agree little with his politics, Barney Frank is a really intelligent guy, and it is interesting to hear him speak.
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Paul S.
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79,200 miles.
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