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Five Questions – Please Help With The Answers

By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

I have been thinking about some questions this past week and would appreciate it if you could help me answer them.  Please e-mail your answers to me at:  Editor@JeffersonReview.com.  Thanks!

1.         If those oil companies are so powerful that they can set prices at any level they want, then why did they allow the price of gasoline to go down about fifty cents in the past week?

2.         If the government is so good at protecting the public safety, then why does it allow a plane in Lexington, KY to use the wrong runway, killing 49 people?  Why does it allow unsafe conditions in coal mines that end up killing many miners?  Why does it forbid beef producers to independently test and certify their products as being free of mad cow disease?  (Okay, so this is three questions, but they’re almost the same.)

3.         If we know that politicians are just as human as everyone else, and, in many cases, much more corrupt and dishonest than most of us, why do we give them so much power over our lives?

4.         Why do so many people prefer to take on the role of victim rather than victor?  Do they find it easier to make an excuse rather than to make an effort?

5.         Why would so many people prefer to tear someone else down rather than to build themselves up?

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