Replying to a message of BOB KLAHN to BOB ACKLEY:

 BB>>> Or any public office for that matter. :)  It has to be ego driven,
 BB>>> IMO.   Or, as in most cases, a chance to make really big bucks
 BB>>> after your term is up.

 BB>>> "Serving the Public" is seldom the case.  :)

 BA>> "In any bureaucracy, 'civil servant' is equivalent in
 BA>> meaning to 'civil master.'" - Robert A Heinlein, about half
 BA>> a century ago.

 BK>  Heinlein was wrong about a lot of things. Wrote good SF, but his 
 BK> politics were a bit screwed up.

Only to you collectivists.  Heinlein was a big believer in freedom and
INDIVIDUAL liberty.  *You* are not.

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