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sktrfield

6-16-2008 8:17 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7cf9d76f-047f-4a40-a896-e2c042d225cf/78EC5E17-7276-4462-A113-6F903B77B4C9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://by105w.bay105.mail.live.com/mail/ReadMessageLight.aspx?Aux=1C%7c0%7c8CA9DEB4CD55220%7c&FolderID=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&InboxSortAscending=False&InboxSortBy=Date&ReadMessageId=353180cb-7d27-4062-86e2-485973cb450c&n=457241871" href="http://by105w.bay105.mail.live.com/mail/ReadMessageLight.aspx?Aux=1C%7c0%7c8CA9DEB4CD55220%7c&FolderID=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&InboxSortAscending=False&InboxSortBy=Date&ReadMessageId=353180cb-7d27-4062-86e2-485973cb450c&n=457241871" style="font-size: 11px;">by105w.bay105.mail.live.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://by105w.bay105.mail.live.com/mail/ReadMessageLight.aspx?Aux=1C%7c0%7c8CA9DEB4CD55220%7c&FolderID=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&InboxSortAscending=False&InboxSortBy=Date&ReadMessageId=353180cb-7d27-4062-86e2-485973cb450c&n=457241871">And so we come back to a popular theme: democracy is not what it is made out to be. The conceit of democrats is that popular democracy adapts...that the voters will always ‘throw the rascals’ out and correct whatever mess they’ve made. But what really happens is that a new group of rascals takes their place. Instead of adapting, the system becomes rigid. Over time, people build up advantages, privileges, positions that they don’t want to give up. These sinecures and subsidies gradually become so expensive that the whole society creaks like an 80-year-old. Then, the whole group shuffles toward catastr</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/78EC5E17-7276-4462-A113-6F903B77B4C9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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