WHY should I care??

“But some have said, it is not the business of private men to meddle with government. 

In truth, our whole worldly happiness and misery (abating for accidents and diseases) are owing to the order or mismanagement of government; 

and he who says that private men have no concern with government, does wisely and modestly tell us, that men have no concern in that which concerns them most; 

it is saying that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be 

naked or clothed, 

fed or starved, 

deceived or instructed, 

and whether they be protected or destroyed: 

What nonsense and servitude in a free and wise nation.”

Cato’s Letters, Number 38 by Thomas Gordon

22 July 1721