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To: lisalisalisa who wrote (26259)	12/18/2002 4:35:48 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Compared to some posters here, Bill Bonner of dailyreckoning.com is a moderate middle of the road apolitical kind of gentleman farmer with a writing hobby:0)

To: lisalisalisa who wrote (26259)	12/18/2002 11:54:03 AM
From: AC Flyer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi Lisa: >>"...Maybe even more, since Americans have been corrupted by welfare and programmed by the public schools and the mass media for several generations more than were the Germans of that time...."<< I am moderately concerned about this. Democracy's Achilles heel, imho, is that politicians who pander to voters get re-elected. The easiest form of pandering is the income-redistribution kind. The big problem with this, as admirably demonstrated by the large parliamentary democracies of Europe is that you eventually get the economic cart before the economic horse, with all the political sound and light focused on the processes of ever-increasing income-redistribution (aka legal theft) and on maintaining the status quo, at the expense of the processes of innovation, risk-taking and wealth creation. Having lived the first half of my life in Europe and the second half in the US, it is my observation that Americans generally do not really grasp how different are the European democracies to the US. We must resist in the US the forces that drive democracies down this path to the inevitable lowest common denominator. Having said all that, I despise the current trend for mentioning Americans and Nazis in the same sentence. Anyone who can say that has not sufficiently studied the Nazis, has an ideological motivation, or both.