When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power already. This is why government benefits usually go to people who don't need benefits from government. Government may make some environmental improvements, but these will be improvements for rich bird-watchers. And no one in government will remember that when poor people go bird-watching they do it at Kentucky Fried Chicken.
P. J. O'RourkeChildren must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
P. J. O'RourkeWe also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we actually do is almost exactly the opposite. His [ Hunter S. Thompson] political stuff is just wonderful, but basically nothing happens.
P. J. O'RourkeSmoking crack is a way for people who couldn't afford college to study the works of Charles Darwin.
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