Wow... good think you deleted the *inflammatory* response. :-)

At 10:44 AM 8/20/2004 -0600, Mark Edwards wrote:
> > It's also really easy to see
> >how life would be much harder for many people if we didn't have
> >government (no schools, no public access to medical care at all,
>
>What?????
>
>I wrote an inflammatory reply, but fortunately for me, and everyone else,
>I recovered my senses in time to delete it rather than posting it.
>
>I think excercising such restraint, plus the fact that its friday, means I
>ought to at least be able to call "BS!" give a really loud bronx cheer to
>the above statement, and to comment that as much as I love the National
>Parks and related lands, I would trade them in a minute if our government
>would get the hell out of the education and medical business. Placing such
>an important part of our well-being in the hands of an elite group of
>millionaire lawyers and alchoholics has proven to be a fatal mistake.
>Nothing good has ever come from any of their illegal, unauthorized
>intrusions into those two fields, and nothing ever will.
>
><everything else snipped>
>
>Happy Friday.
>
>Mark