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Rules vs People	excon	10/19/06
Hello: I finally figured out WHY people join one party or the other. I get, that all of us want pretty much the same thing. However, Republicans think the problems are caused because we haven’t written the rules exactly right, and the Democrats think the problems aren’t the rules, but whether people will obey them. That’s why people like the Wolverine who, even though he disagrees with a law, will obey it absolutely, because it’s written. Then there are guy’s like me, who question the morality of the law, and make decisions to obey or not, based on that. Neither position works for us as a country. I had a business partner who was designing a job for an underling. As designed, the job had no redeeming qualities, and couldn’t produce any satisfaction for the worker. I said, “if the job isn’t satisfying, we’ll have trouble filling it.” My partner said, “what’s that got to do with it? Here’s the job. Here’s the pay. Do it.” He's a Republican. Republicans think that all they have to do is write a law, and their work is done. People WILL obey, because they wrote it. Democrats worry so much about how a law will be perceived that they don’t write laws that matter. Maybe the solution is, that we have enough laws right now, and they should take a vacation. excon
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drgade		10/19/06
Most of the time I feel that there are too many laws where there shouldn't be any. Take the First Amendemnt which says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;.." Here they have a direct, primary/basic law saying "NO laws" are to be made ....and Congress keeps adding to the laws "prohibiting the free exercise thereof". I too wish Congress would serve only a few months of the year and take a vacation, with pay. I'm willing to keep paying them if they would just stay home.

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