by Pops » Sun 06 Jun 2004, 18:26:14
I've always had trouble with abstract concepts, but that graphic illustrates economics in a way I had never considered.
The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities.
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)