[Vision2020] re: liquor liability

Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:50:17 -0800

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Dale Courtney wrote:

> Bill,
>  
> Let me get this right. There's no establishment in town that provides 
> the services that you are looking for; so you think that the city 
> should fund a building where you can afford to have your parties?

Dear Vision 2020:

Private enterprise and the "free" market do not provide a town square 
where I can go and speak my mind; rather, they offer to take my money 
without my thoughts. The private sector does not exist for my benefit; 
rather, it exists to benefit from my prosperity and, sometimes, 
despairity. The business world does not care that I live or die; rather, 
it cares that it gets a piece of my pie.

The public sector, my fair city, the county, the state, the feds, and 
our disorganized world, should be organized to foster life, liberty and 
the pursuit of happiness. For me, this community, and the larger world, 
are better, freer, more happy places when there are parks and trails and 
beautiful buildings available for good uses, such as East City Park to 
hear a band concert of a summer evening, the Chipman Trail to ride my 
bike of a fall afternoon, and the 1912 Building to toast the newly wed 
of a spring day. I will add that I think it was good that government 
helped create the Alturas Technology Park as an attractive and fully 
developed center to attract high tech businesses with good jobs for 
people in our community -- in other words, I do not flinch at the 
concept of government assistance to business for the benefit of people. 
I will conclude, because I think I recognize Dale's anti-government 
bent, that I thank God for the good sense of the American people, and 
our tradition separating church and state, for public schools.

Duncan Palmatier

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in town that provides the services that you are looking for; so you think
that the city should fund a building where you can afford to have your parties?</div>
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Dear Vision 2020: 
 
Private enterprise and the "free" market do not provide a town square where
I can go and speak my mind; rather, they offer to take my money without my
thoughts. The private sector does not exist for my benefit; rather, it exists
to benefit from my prosperity and, sometimes, despairity. The business world
does not care that I live or die; rather, it cares that it gets a piece of
my pie. 
 
The public sector, my fair city, the county, the state, the feds, and our
disorganized world, should be organized to foster life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness. For me, this community, and the larger world, are better, freer,
more happy places when there are parks and trails and beautiful buildings
available for good uses, such as East City Park to hear a band concert of
a summer evening, the Chipman Trail to ride my bike of a fall afternoon,
and the 1912 Building to toast the newly wed of a spring day. I will add
that I think it was good that government helped create the Alturas Technology
Park as an attractive and fully developed center to attract high tech businesses
with good jobs for people in our community -- in other words, I do not flinch
at the concept of government assistance to business for the benefit of people.
I will conclude, because I think I recognize Dale's anti-government bent,
that I thank God for the good sense of the American people, and our tradition
separating church and state, for public schools. 
 
Duncan Palmatier 
 
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