---------------------------------------------------------- Yak-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sat 11/21/09: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 01:16 AM - Re: DC-3 Pilot in the News (Jan Mevis) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 01:16:54 AM PST US From: "Jan Mevis" Subject: RE: Yak-List: DC-3 Pilot in the News I concur with this completely, and you can easily replace the word "US" with whatever western government you like. Jan -----Original Message----- From: owner-yak-list-server@matronics.com [mailto:owner-yak-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of xiaobao Sent: zaterdag 21 november 2009 3:08 Subject: Re: Yak-List: DC-3 Pilot in the News I think you misread my comment, Mr. Blouzard, which was that ordinary citizens in US have become oh-so-whiny ... and litigious ... and that ordinary citizens in other parts of the world appear more likely to cheer than to flee or whine at at the sight of something fast and loud with spectral paint hanging on its slippery parts. OK, my experience isn't everywhere though it has been gained in Nice, and in other spots in Europe where I've lived in past and in east Asia where I live now. You likely will be delighted, as are residents, to see the Singaporean Black Knights working out over that city. SantaMonica Pier habitues will likely be sent wailing and hoping someone will notice them. Many ordinary citizens of hold the idea that government is in place to help them. Not true. Government has a business to run and is in place to execute on its needs for cash flow. If a citizen presents an opportunity for goverment to harvest cash, it will do so. Its a government employee's job to put money in goverment coffers. The measure of a business is in its cash flow, those government folks have mighty individual power and know the way to both salary raises and to keep a job is to relieve citizen individuals of their money. However, my comment was not about government, it was about a personal way of life that has finger pointing as a central theme. That the finger pointing way is rampant in the US of the moment is well known. The way of blaming others, the whiny way. The whiny way has a number of prominent subsets including "pay me, you have egregiously wronged me" though "I will become important if I complain" appears to be a prominent causal reason. Jack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Matronics Email List Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post A New Message yak-list@matronics.com UN/SUBSCRIBE http://www.matronics.com/subscription List FAQ http://www.matronics.com/FAQ/Yak-List.htm Web Forum Interface To Lists http://forums.matronics.com Matronics List Wiki http://wiki.matronics.com Full Archive Search Engine http://www.matronics.com/search 7-Day List Browse http://www.matronics.com/browse/yak-list Browse Digests http://www.matronics.com/digest/yak-list Browse Other Lists http://www.matronics.com/browse Live Online Chat! http://www.matronics.com/chat Archive Downloading http://www.matronics.com/archives Photo Share http://www.matronics.com/photoshare Other Email Lists http://www.matronics.com/emaillists Contributions http://www.matronics.com/contribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These Email List Services are sponsored solely by Matronics and through the generous Contributions of its members.