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"It profits me but little that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquillity of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life."
--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Government Shutdown - Day 16
And I still don't care. Hasn't affected me at all. Do we actually need a federal government? Other than the military, what is it that the states couldn't do? Or, more importantly, what is it that they do that simply doesn't need to be done or is entirely counter-productive?
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