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  1. Xref: sparky alt.fan.rush-limbaugh:13269 talk.politics.misc:68897 uiuc.politics:563 alt.politics.elections:25025
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  4. From: kkopp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (koppenhoefer kyle cramm)
  5. Subject: Re: Campaign funding a joke
  6. References: <1993Jan17.065815.7357@midway.uchicago.edu> <C10oL9.KJt@unix.portal.com> <mjones.727479865@fenway> <C14qMz.GKr@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <mjones.727558635@fenway>
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  9. Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
  10. Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 04:23:45 GMT
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  13. mjones@fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Mike Jones) writes:
  14.  
  15. >kkopp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (koppenhoefer kyle cramm) writes:
  16. >>  So, what you are saying is that government has become SO complex that
  17. >>we now have no hope of ordinary people understanding how it is run.  
  18. >>  Watch what you say, because the next thing you know we won't be 
  19. >>educated enought to vote.  Government can never become too complex for 
  20. >>the people to understand and run it.  If this is the case, then government
  21. >>reform is even more important.
  22.  
  23. >No, that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying merely that I don't really
  24. >have a problem with the "career politician" per se,
  25.  
  26.    The problem with career politicians is two fold.  (1)  They have shown
  27. themselves to only be interested in re-election.  (2)  They don't have the
  28. real-world experience to understand the concequences of their legislation.
  29. The second point was illistrated by Herbert Humphry when after politics he
  30. went into the private sector and failed in his business.  He commented afterward
  31. that he wished he had realized what government regulations did to small
  32. businessmen.  ( I admit that the exact citation is vague on my part, but 
  33. hopefully the flavor still exists).
  34.  
  35.