To all --<br>
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A translation:<br>
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<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Personal accountability</blockquote><div><br>
Blame the victim. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Self-reliance</blockquote><div><br>
Blame the victim. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">State Sovereignty</blockquote><div><br>
Blame the State. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The difference between a helping hand and a handout</blockquote><div><br>
Blame the victim. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The government can't make life perfect - only the individual can do that.</blockquote>
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Blame Nature. <br>
</div><br></div>The state exists to handle eventualities and risks that
no citizen, not even the richest, can handle. We do not expect people
to hire private bodyguards to protect them against muggings. The police
force does that. We do not expect people to put out their own fires. We
have the fire department to do that. We don't expect people to pay for
whatever unforseen medical disorders they may encounter in their later
years. We have Medicare for that. We cannot expect peopel to 'just deal
with' a hurricane on their own: living through a hurricane is something
that someone will do, once, maybe twice in their life. We cannot expect
people living through a hurricane to make informed decisions: we have,
as a society, delegated disasters from your stove being on fire to a
massive hurricane to the government. <br>
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We expect the Moscow Fire Department to not get drunk and run into
trees, and when they arrive, we expect actual professional
firefighters, not the mayor's brother's college roommate's daughter's
cousin. Why can't we expect that from our federal government?<br>
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-- ACS<br>