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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: National Defence (we need a new subject title!)
Message-ID: <764@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 12:28:10 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 30 12:28:10 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 7-Oct-85 03:16:46 EDT
References: <3476@topaz.UUCP> <28200087@inmet.UUCP> <145@l5.uucp>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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Summary: 

In article <145@l5.uucp> laura@l5.UUCP (Laura Creighton) writes:
>
>I think that the state is necessary. I think that the state should be
>responsible for only one thing -- the defence of the rights of citizens.
>This implies both internal and external defence -- the state is responsible
>for providing a legal code which defines what the rights are, and which
>imposes  penalties for trangressing against those rights.  
>
>What i do not want is full time (career) civil servants.  There undoubtably
>are people who would make good full time Judges, policemen and law makers
>but there are far too many who are not.  Therefore I propose limiting how
>long one can work for the state to 2 terms of (say) 5 years each....
>Do not expect the salary to be good, however.
>
>
	Well, this is getting close to a form of Libertaria that I
could accept. At least there is a recognition that certain functions
which entail a conflict of interest under open market conditions need
to be handled by public funding. The only point of disagreement is the
last sentence. Poor salaries for those such as police makes for a
*great* temptation to corruption and bribery(conflict of interest).
At least the most critical public employees should be paid well enough
so that they are not tempted to supplement thier income improperly.
(P.S. this is a problem currently - I think police in most
jurisdicitons deserve rather large raises).
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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