==> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:06:07 -0600, Mia McDavid <mia_mcdavid at comcast.net> said: > Schools, roads, hospitals, libraries, sometimes sports arenas, police, > firefighters, social programs, our armed services--these are not the toys of > assorted officials. Sure they are. Or rather the power to control folks that comes with the administration of these features of our society. If you constituted any of these operations as a business or a charity, you'd immediately fire everyone above the rank of office manager for gross incompetence, fiscal mismanagement, and rampant conflict of interest. Sports arenas, indeed. - Allen S. Rout - Has been resisting this conversation with decreasing success.