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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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paraclete		10/19/06
ex this problem has been long observed in business and the answer is empowerment. That's not a word politicians like to hear because there is no political quodos when you arn't part of the solution of the problem, particularly when the problem is solved before you know there is a problem. What you don't need is more law, you need to empower the people to fulfill the law. How does this work. Well instead of pork barrelling local projects, you empower the local government to fix the problem within a budget without any other approvals. You need a new dam, build it, a new highway, build it, a new bridge, build it. The bureauracrats hate it, the politicians are in dismay but it's power to the people. The Auditors shout; accountability, the accountants; cost, the lawyers; liability, the political opponents; waste but in the end the waste of the political process is eliminated and things are done more economically and much more democratically

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