Neither my housekeeper, yard guy nor hairdresser, not the banks, card companies and stores that extend me credit would go under if I suffered financial collapse.

Unfortunate as it is, I am too insignificant to turn to some government agency to bail me out if I were careless in my work. If, in hopes of greater fame and bigger paychecks, I turned a blind eye to facts and wrote salacious columns, ruining the reputations of decent citizens, I couldn’t ask the government to gallop to my rescue once I got sacked, got sued and went hunting for a bankruptcy lawyer.

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