by Pops » Wed 22 Jul 2009, 10:41:03
Yeah, thanks, I'm supposed to be prospecting here!
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)