[yatros from flatwater]

To borrow JRR Tolkien's allegory, all (and their servants) wielding the One Ring (of absolute power) become obsessed with the pursuit of power. Ultimately, all the worthy justifications put forward to endorse their reach become vaporous. The ONLY solution is to unmake The Ring.

[B Knotts]

Exactly right. I wish more people understood that.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...The ONLY solution is to unmake The Ring...

Who shall undertake that perilous quest?

[Mudboy Slim]

"The ONLY solution is to unmake The Ring."

Yep...we need to continuously and constantly decrease federal Spending as a Percentage of Gross Domestic Product, year after year after year. The pork and waste inherent in a $2 Trillion annual budget will make this decrease imperceptible to the public, but would greatly energize the economy if spread to the entreprenuerial class.

FReegards...MUD