[extropy-chat] smaller govt.

[Mike Lorrey]

--- c c <beb_cc at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Or two cheers at least. BTW a good place to start pruning govt.
> spending is in the Defense sector. All those programs where a vet is
> paid $25,000 for six months work? Terminate 'em. Let the market
> decide the salary for those sort of jobs. Selective Service ought to
> be terminated, too. Right away.

What are you smoking? $25k for 6 months is $50k for 12, hardly enough
to rent a crate to live in in the Bay area. If the market decided,
they'd be making twice as much. Gov't pay rates never match market
rates, except for union run highway construction.

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

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