Thread: Paying For Health Care

Originally Posted by ephekt

Well, to be fair, our govt has been exponentially expanded beyond it's original role; we've been insisting on paradigm shifts for years. Picking and choosing which expansions are 'good' is largely arbitrary.

You do realise that the original role has expanded exponentially because the people have voted for governments based on the expansionist policies they promoted (or opposed). It's not arbitrary at all.

Originally Posted by ephekt

Although, I do agree that anyone holding contempt for public education, police etc is probably a bit fringe.

Sure, but Benjamin Franklin and other framers also held any number of views which most people would consider fringe now. So what? Benjamin Franklin and other recognized that times change as does the opinions of the people; hence they created a Constitution which allowed laws to be created, modified and revoked, as well as which allowed itself to be modified.