Hazardous Protections

I would be the first to admit that I welcome a certain amount of protection from the government. That, as I see it, is one of the things government is all about. I get a mild satisfaction from seeing the streets filled with dogcatchers, lifeguards, traffic cops, sergeant majors, drawbridge drawers, and even electric chair operators, all going merrily about their work.

Yea, I can even put up with a limited amount of consumer protection from the government. I will permit the government to stick its nose into my meat and medicine on the tentative assumption that bad meat and medicine may be worse than bureaucracy. In fact, to be perfectly honest, there was even a time when I had a good word for Nader—that was before he reached his zenith.

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S. L. Varnado

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I would be the first to admit that I welcome a certain amount of protection from the government. That, as I see it, is one of the things government is all about. I get a mild satisfaction from seeing the streets filled with dogcatchers, lifeguards, traffic cops, sergeant majors, drawbridge drawers, and even electric chair operators, all going merrily about their work.

Yea, I can even put up with a limited amount of consumer protection from the government. I will permit the government to stick its nose into my meat and medicine on the tentative assumption that bad meat and medicine may be worse than bureaucracy. In fact, to be perfectly honest, there was even a time when I had a good word for Nader—that was before he reached his zenith.