« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2008, 03:10:27 PM »
Thank you, gunsup. Always wise to think a step past the measure, to the effect.
We still try to cultivate the citizen leader, who comes from our own ranks. Doesn't always work out that way but the power brokers and brahmins aren't taking the job for the retirement bennies, let me tell ya.
What incentive does a motivated private citizen have to participate in government anymore? Some still do.
Or is the motivation always power and corruption, and thus all of our elected leaders must be punished? Is that a good system? There is no perfect world, but our system seems to function by recognizing precisely that.
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