Re: New Element

[John Barrer <forcejb@YAHOO.COM>]

Jim - Very amusing. But if (big) government is as
totally incompetent as you claim, then how do you
explain that fact that the overhead burden of the US
Medicare system is well under 5% while that of our
private medical insurance industry is on the order of
40%? And would you accept a world of Cuyahoga Rivers
(burning) and Love Canals as the price of eliminating
the EPA? Or poisoned, maimed, and killed workers as
the price dumping OSHA? One is VERY hard pressed to
identify any government regulatory agencies that were
not formed either because 1) big business actually
wanted the regulations (and protected, structured
markets that result), or 2) there was public outrage
at the results of corporate behavior.

There are many countries with quite small, "efficient"
central governments. Many are in Africa. If small
governemnt is so attractive, why are these countries
not experiencing a flood of immigration? John Barrere

--- Jim Green <JMGreen@SISNA.COM> wrote:
> I can't believe that at this stage of physics a new
> element has been
> discovered - but the following has been communicated
> to me:
> > A New Chemical Element Discovered Called
> Governmentium
> > A major research institution has recently announced
> the discovery of the
> > heaviest chemical element yet known to science. The
> new element has been
> > named "Governmentium."
> >
> > Governmentium has 1 neutron, 12 assistant neutrons,
> 75 deputy neutrons and
> > 11 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic
> mass of 312. These 312
> > particles are held together by forces called
> morons, which are surrounded
> > by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called
> peons.
> > Since governmentium has no electrons, it is inert.
> However, it can be
> > detected as it impedes every reaction with which it
> comes into contact.
> > A minute amount of governmentium causes one
> reaction to take over 4 days
> > to complete when it would normally take less than a
> second. Governmentium
> > has a normal half-life of 1 to 6 years; it does not
> decay, but instead
> > undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of
> the assistant neutrons
> > and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact,
> governmentium's mass will
> > actually increase over time, since reorganization
> causes some morons to
> > become neutrons, forming isodopes.
> >
> > This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some
> scientists to speculate
> > that governmentium is formed whenever morons reach
> a certain quantity in
> > concentration. This hypothetical quantity is
> referred to as "Critical
> > Morass." You will know it when you see it!


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