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Re: Pet trade- No government needed.

Good God, we are all doomed! With that in mind, why don't we get back to
discussions of the
hobby since there is nothing to be done? Regards
erny




----- Original Message -----
From: "Wright Huntley" <huntley1 at home_com>
To: <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: Pet trade- No government needed.


>
>
> BizEcology at aol_com wrote:
> >
> > Quite honestly, I think the tendency of the government to foul up
> > "everything" is a piece of propaganda which a certain overrated
politician
> > made the center of his campain over 20 years ago.  It's become a
touchstone
> > for people who primarily have no ongoing experience with the Federal
> > government and need a boogyman to blame for everything that doesn't go
as
> > well as they wish.
> >
> > << From: Jim Eller <jeller3 at yahoo_com>
> >  Subject: Re: Pet trade- No government needed.
>
> Larry, I'd like to respectfully disagree, if I may. I have *lots* of
> experience with governments at all levels. I've been in the military and
> I've been a "civil servant."
>
> I *see* the problem of congress and Washington (or Carson City)
bureaucrats
> trying to "do good" through use of government force. I do volunteer
habitat
> work, fish counts, etc. at least two and often 4 times a year in the
Nevada,
> Arizona and Utah deserts. I work with ASU experts, F&WL and NV Wildlife
> Dept. folks, most of whom are good, smart diligent folks with their
> priorities straight. [OK, I admit they can't fire the rare jerk that shows
> up among them. ;-)]
>
> Doing "good" quickly becomes an empire building process, where the laws
are
> distorted and misinterpreted in ways never intended by the electorate.
> Budgets are used to impress congressfolk and not to do the work intended.
> Planning is for next year's budget increase, not saving the pupfish. Build
> the expensive boardwalk but don't maintain the pump the fish depend on for
> their water.
>
> I resigned from a major university, right during the Viet War, in protest
> over the mishandling of the government research programs on campus. My
> contact with the government had become too intimate for my conscience to
> bear it. As consultant to some of our more out-of-control agencies at the
> time, I saw what was coming and I wanted no part of it.
>
> Now we wage undeclared war on civilians in Columbia and no one even gives
a
> damn. Well, a lot of Germans liked the way Hitler was handling things,
too.
>
> 30 years of running a high-tech manufacturing company gave me a lot of
> insight into just how many jobs were destroyed by the alphabet soup folks
> (FDA, Cal OSHA, OSHA, EPA, etc.) with little or no benefit to the public
> they were charged with serving. They often *protected* companies engaged
in
> outrageous practices that should have made them liable for damages.
>
> Central planning and regulation didn't work in the late Soviet Union. It
> didn't work in India (see
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell1.asp)
> and it obviously does not work here. All I need to cite are the so-called
> "War on Drugs" (aka the govt.-drug-price-support plan) or our now almost
> totally socialist school system. Public housing and "War on Poverty" ring
a
> bell?
>
> We have no concrete evidence that *more* pet regulations will do one bit
> better, and a *lot* of direct experience to prove that they will have the
> opposite effect to what is intended. That of course is IMHO. YMMV.
>
> Wright
>
> --
> Wright Huntley,  Fremont CA, USA,  510 494-8679     huntley1 at home_com
>
> In retrospect it becomes clear that hindsight is definitely overrated.
>
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