Needs versus wants

Needs versus wants


"In the real world, there is no insuperable obstacle to believing both that individuals should be free and that governments have a critical role to play in making things better. The hard -- and never-ending -- challenge is how to give government the considerable powers that it needs to secure the manifold conditions of freedom while keeping it from abusing those powers. Even during the simpler times when our federal republic was young, that tradeoff required accommodating competing interests and balancing contending rights."

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Government has more power than it needs but not nearly as much as it wants. Who is to say how much it needs?

How about the constitution.

How about its current level with a permanent special prosecutor to jail government officials and workers who desire more?


Dave Farnsworth