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Old 02-06-2007, 04:37 PM
Wongboy Wongboy is offline
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Default Re: Sell your NT Debt

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m_t_k -

I think most of us are less worried about Neteller execs absconding with the money than we are concerned about the DOJ deciding it could use an non-traditional budget increase.

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Come on. From when the proud Americans have so little faith in their own government?

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Most scholars believe that it stems from Prohibition which turned the majority of Americans into criminals. Then again, it could go back to the founding of the country which involved a violent overthrow of a repressive government. Why do you think that we felt the need to specifically limit the powers of the Federal government through the Bill of Rights?

Distrust of authority / government is practically an American tradition.