Quote:They could cut the cost in half and I still wouldn't buy a car. Simple reason; I don't need one at the moment. Everything I need is within 20 minutes cycle of my home. Public transportation can get me virtually everywhere else and on the rare cases I do actually need a car I can borrow one or rent one.


Honestly Eric, your fetish with small government is delusional. While a massive bureacracy is certainly not desirable you still need an entity which empowers the people. The only major problem I see with the US government is your politicians being bought and paid for by corporations. The US government is no longer an equalising power between the powerful corporations and the powerless people but it is increasingly an instutition for formally legalising the almost inevitable oligarchy.

I agree the biggest problem with American government is it's bought and paid for by both corporations and bankers. However I believe when you have government as big as we do over here that is inevitable. I simple do not believe any government anywhere can grow so big and not be bought and paid for, that's why the solution is less government. You call it a fetish, I call it a solution.

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