From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Sat Feb 08 2003 - 07:21:20 MST
In a message dated 2/8/2003 3:45:15 AM Central Standard Time,
lcorbin@tsoft.com writes: I cannot believe that nine men and women sitting in
Washington can pass laws and rules that apply equally well to a small
tightly-knit Hasidic community on Long Island, to the entire Appalachian
South, or to communities in southern California. How the hell can they say
what is appropriate in these diverse regions?
Lee,
There is a political principle that says the more things you regulate
the more things you have to regulate. In fact Hayek says that it is this
idea that eventually leads all statists to a dictatorship. The number of
things being regulated become so numerous and the changes required to keep up
so numerous that eventually a court or legislature becomes incapable of doing
the job. Eventually the country arrives at a point it requires a man on
horseback to make all the decisions for everyone. Of course the more he is
stuck in one place making decisions the more he is out of touch so the worse
his decisions get.
You could argue that the reason that Germany & the Soviet fell was
because their leaders became progressively more and more out of touch until
they fell of their own weight.
After the fall of the Soviet, questions were asked why our CIA was
surprised by the collapse. The answer seems to be that the Soviet citizens
were so afraid to fail, least they be punished, they never reported the
truth. We had spies inside the KGB and were totally fooled because we
thought KGB numbers would be correct -- in the end even the KGB didn't know
what was going on. <G>
In Germany no one had the guts to tell Hitler that he had suffered
loses or lost battles because they would be shot. In the end he was supposed
to be ordering no longer existent units to make stands at locations the
allies had long since captured.
Ford Motor Company production supervisors told me that under MacNamara
he would tell them to do as they were told or he would replace them -- a
really tough guy. According to the old timers they got to count any car
coming off the end of the production line and they dared not make their
quota. As a result they were rolling cars off the end of the production line
that weren't finished. They would then finish building the car out in the
parking lot.
Ron h.
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