Quote: Originally posted by GreatWyrm of Babylon@Sep 5 2003, 07:58 PM
Yes, Americans use a lot of resources, we also make a disporportiant number of the advances both industrial, and medical. So go ahead and cry, it is not your right to decide how we live. | This may be true now, but we've been lazy as of late. Our technocratic ways only work so long as we export new technologies, and as it stands Japan and the UK are looking to surpass us in no time - not to mention that most of our high-tech professionals are imported.
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |