From this Sunday's front page NYTimes Book Review review of book on Pres Obama

[Michael Bailey]

Mark Kohut  wrote:
> "America is different, or used to be.

different than it is now? or different than some other country...

> It was founded on the older idea that
> human beings have a fixed set of natural rights
>  and that the fixed role of
> government is simply to secure those rights, otherwise leaving people to
> take care of themselves.

but wait, for any non-trivial set of rights, the task of securing them
is anything but simple; and the notion of a central authority securing
rights guarantees that people by and large will *not* be left to take
care of themselves...
-- not that there's anything wrong with that...i happen to think it's
a pretty good tradeoff ...


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- where the bee sucks, there suck I