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We don't need big government -- only a government big enough to to keep mega financial corporations from destroying our pensions, 401Ks and savings.

We don't need big government -- only a government big enough to regulate and keep massive oil companies from wrecking our commercial fisheries, decimating our sea food industries, destroying our coastlines, beaches, and demolishing our environment.

We don't need big government -- only a government big enough to keep us safe from pharmaceutical corporations grabbing billions in profits rather than properly testing medicines that are supposed to help us. We just need a government big enough to keep them from lying to our good doctors about medicines they spend millions to advertise that could and do kill us.

We don't need big government -- only a government big enough to prevent fraudsters and crooks from manipulating the stock market and scamming good honest Americans, robbing them of their future.

We don't need big government -- only a government big enough to regulate and develop clean water systems and keep uncaring corporations from polluting the air we breath and the water we drink without us even knowing about it.

We don't need big government -- only a government big enough to protect us from foods that can poison us from products sold and imported from foreign countries that injure and kill our children and families.

We don't need big government -- only a government big enough to insure we have available funds from our payments to Social Security to help take care of us in our senior years and medicare to help with our medical cost.

We don't need big government -- only one that will assure we won't die on the street from a treatable medical conditions because we don't have the money or insurance to cover the cost.

We don't need big government -- only a government that will assure when we fly in planes, the tops won't rip off because of bad maintenance.

We don't need big government -- only a government that will protect us from terrorism and attack from enemies without and within.

We don't need big government -- only a government that will protect our borders.

We don't need Lawyers -- only lawyers skilled in trial to protect our essential Constitutional rights of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the right to bare arms.

We don't need Lawyers -- only lawyers skilled in trial to protect our essential Constitutional right to a jury trial rather than an arbitration scheme we can't afford.

We don't need Lawyers -- only lawyers skilled in trial to help us get justice when we have been cheated by crooked businesses and others taking advantage of us.

We don't need Lawyers -- only lawyers skilled in trial to secure payment of our just insurance proceeds when an insurance company that took our money refuses to pay our benefits.

We don't need Lawyers -- only lawyers skilled in trial to help us get justice when we contracted and paid for a new roof, or even a new home and we are unable to get the company to honor their promises.

We don't need Lawyers -- only lawyers skilled in trial to enforce the law when we have suffered discrimination, unequal pay and denied equal opportunity.

And yet we all fall for the same propaganda, over and over again that we should weaken our government regulations and our justice system because it is inefficient and out of control. Yes, it is inefficient but should we trust corporate America and their CEOs to do the right thing? Government and the judicial system is the only chance we citizens have to keep in check big money, big power, big influence and big special interest. We have never seen out of control until we allow big money, big power, big influence and big special interest to run roughshod over our citizens rights, without reasonable regulation of government and the threat of litigation.

They spend billions of dollars marketing their snake oil, and we willingly take it!
Br Gregory S. Cusimano

I have mused before about how a belief can form an attitude. I still think that is true, but, somehow there is a difference in what someone believes and what someone knows. The belief system is formed, adopted, modified, and solidified generally on what we have seen, heard, been, tasted, experienced, touched, or read. In other words, it is formed through our senses based on what we have been told, taught, or information we have received. Often supported by anecdotal information. Our belief system can be formed by our parents, schoolmates, media, employer, partner, books, T.V., internet, etc.--often from people we think are in authority or have more information than we have.

Generally, the belief system is formed from external sources, and then unconsciously adopted internally. If we are exposed to the same information over and over again with little if any contrary information, the belief system becomes more deeply held. The view may reach what can be called a core belief and can even approach something that is just known.

Knowing can be distinguished from most beliefs because it is something you just know. You can feel it. You are certain. You can't always explain why, but there is something within that just tells you this is so. Maybe some kind of internal guidance system, or innate knowledge, or even primal knowledge, but something is providing you with the needed answers, the direction, and the right reflex as long as you listen to the internal information. A belief is subject to contradiction and possibly can be changed--a knowing generally cannot.

Although beliefs can be altered, the more deeply a belief is held, the more difficult it is to alter. Once it reaches the state of knowing, it's much more difficult to alter, if it can be altered at all. It requires a much longer and a more systematic rhythmic experience. Sometimes the source of knowing is referred to as the inner voice, or may even have a spiritual dimension, but from wherever the source, it is undeniably there. There are just things we know, oftentimes on an unconscious gut level, but just as often on a conscious cognitive level. The level of knowing is much more powerful than the level of believing.

As lawyers who try cases, it is important to learn the beliefs and even the "knowings" of the people who compose our juries. Believing is seeing, not the other way around. It is just as important to understand views regarding politics, parties, religion and opposing views. Attitudes, beliefs, and knowings affect our very lives. Being aware of their effect on our lives is a plus.

I think it was Will Rogers who once said, "It's not ignorance that's so bad, it's what you know that ain't so".