🚀 go-pugleaf

A nice person called Ned Latham (who can be contacted at nenosed@apex.met.au) 
told all the world the following....

>Trevor Calder <trevorREMOVE@THISiinet.net.au> wrote:
>> The last thing any government wants is people thinking they can
>> look after themselves.

>You're absolutely right, Trev: *our* gobernment want us dependent on t
>hem
>for everything.

Yep. And they're getting it - because most people don't want all the
hassles that go with making their own decisions or being
responsible for their own actions.

>But it wasn't always that way; in fact the nanny state is only fairly 
>recent,
>And it needn't remain that way.

It needn't - but I bet it does for a good long while.
Until people *want* to be responsible for themselves - and the
pendulum still seems to be swinging the wrong way for that to occur
soon.

>Be positive: it's *their* problem (our problem is how to get rid of th
>e bastards).

We can always swap them for another load of bastards exactly the same...
Either that or armed revolution.

>To reply, cut out my nose and make the met a net.

Ah, if only I could train my newsreader to do that:-)

-- 
Trevor Calder
"..it is foolishness and endless trouble to cast a 
stone at every dog that barks at you.."