<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:19.2px;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">It has been argued that with excessive oversight, the government cannot get anything done.  This is almost right.  With proper oversight, the government cannot get anything done illegally.  spike</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:19.2px;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:19.2px;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">Excessive, by definition, is too much.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:19.2px;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:19.2px;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">It makes me wonder such things as :  what was so important about the Democrats paperwork that the Repubs set up a burglary at the Watergate?  Just knowing campaign strategy is worth a felony?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:19.2px;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:19.2px;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">What they don't want us to know is the deals, the quid pro quo.  Who won the deal and who lost.  Remember the saying about law and sausage.<span><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:19.2px;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:19.2px;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">Hillary may be as big a narcissist as the Donald.</span></p><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><br></p></font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 8:03 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> extropy-chat [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@<wbr>lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><br></span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>…A problem that occurs at every level:  "I am now a big and important person and don't have to obey the rules."  <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">That’s why we have inspectors watching everything.  <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">There is a good chance either of these mainstream candidates’ administrations will have already failed before they even take the oath of office.  They are accustomed to a bit of leeway to do whatever they want.  Either will go in under clouds of suspicion.  It will hang on them like hair on a Tibetan yak.  We will watch every move, remind Trump every day of the things he has said and Mrs. Clinton of the things she has done.  This might be the most powerless presidential administration in American history.  There might be a downside to that somewhere, but I haven’t yet figured out what it is.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> >…</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> No one at any level can be trusted to do any job without scrutiny…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Truer words are seldom spoken BillW.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Where were the Inspectors General during Mrs. Clinton’s tenure at State?  How did he or she miss all the wrongdoing?  Oh wait, here we go:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2e75b6"><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/state-department-lacked-top-watchdog-during-hillary-clinton-tenure-1427239813" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2e75b6">http://www.wsj.com/articles/<wbr>state-department-lacked-top-<wbr>watchdog-during-hillary-<wbr>clinton-tenure-1427239813</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Inspectors are not there to bother people or get in their way; they are there to protect them from breaking the law.  It appears Mrs. Clinton intentionally dismissed or otherwise arranged to have no oversight during her term.  Walking the tightrope without a net.  She fell off.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">It has been argued that with excessive oversight, the government cannot get anything done.  This is almost right.  With proper oversight, the government cannot get anything done illegally.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></font></span></div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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