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We'll Have To Reclaim The Ward 'taxes.' Why Has It Become A Synonym For 'evil'? I Understand That No One Likes To Pay Good Money For Nothing. But Fire And Police Protection Aren't Nothing. ... Roads, Bridges, Airports, And Mass Transit Systems Aren't Nothing. National Parks, Clean Air, And Clear Water Aren't Nothing. A Safe Food Supply, Functioning Schools With Well-trained Teachers, And Well-equipped Hospitals Aren't Vaporous Apparitions Either.

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Liberation Is An Ever Shifting Horizon, A Total Ideology That Can Never Fulfill Its Promises. It Has The Therapeutic Quality Of Providing Emotionally Charged Rituals Of Solidarity In Hatred - It Is The Amphetamine Of Its Believers.

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What Won't Work - What Can't Work - Is To Act Like The Last Years Never Happened, And That The Survival Of The [mass Media] Industry Will Be Found By Hiding Content Behind Walled Gardens. Instead Of Sticking Their Finger In The Dike, Trying To Hold Back The Flow Of Innovation, Companies Need To Ride The Rapids Of Progress And Seize The Opportunities It Provides.