Awatmath.2286
net.followup
utzoo!decvax!watmath!jcwinterton
Fri Apr 30 16:42:48 1982
Re: Monopoly
Governments can't be compared to a business monopoly or "trust".  Normally,
a business monopoly can only coerce people by refusing to deal with them.
A government can and will coerce peoply by force (of arms if necessary).
One of the greatest drawbacks to a free society like that in this continent
is that the so-called representative governments are just gigantic self-
perpetuating bureaucracies.  These organisms spend most of their energy
keeping the organization growing, and never, never produce anything.  They
are consumers of the major slice of the GNP which is created by the traders
and manufacturers and farmers and miners and ...
Naturally, since all this great consumer does is sit and leech off the body
politic, it is in its interest to make the rules.  Here in Canada, we have
the same problems, but in a parliamentary system you can sometimes throw
the top level out and get a new set of fools and jesters.  The snivel serpents,
however, are always with us....
*sigh* end of sympathietic flame.