[Oe List ...] A Matter of Human Rights

[Susan Fertig]

Don't you think individuals sticking their necks out and risking their lives
to make the government change was the primary reason the Jim Crow laws were
overturned?  Government has of itself no particular character or personality
or ethics -- it is a thing, without consciousness or conscience.
 
Susan
 

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Susan wrote

Individuals and communities are much more creative and capable of finding
solutions than the massive and unwieldy machine that the federal government
is.

That seems intuitively right, but if it had been up to individuals and local
communities, we'd still have Jim Crow laws in the south. My understanding is
that different state laws is a big part of the health insurance crisis.
 
Jann 
 
 

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