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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (136644)	6/15/2004 3:32:40 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Jacob, I suppose I can't say I thought of it first since Thomas Jefferson is a lot older than me. But it's nice to see that there are some Americans who think like I do. <"We believe--or we act as if we believed--that although an individual father cannot alienate the labor of his son, the aggregate body of fathers may alienate the labor of all their sons, of their posterity, in the aggregate, and oblige them to pay for all the enterprises, just or unjust, profitable or ruinous, into which our vices, our passions or our personal interests may lead us.> But there is one issue left outstanding by that. We the oldies have built everything. We should be able to enjoy the fruits of our efforts. Governments could borrow against the country's assets and pay the oldies a sensible share of the wealth they've created. The sons should pay their own way rather than bludge off the oldies. But there's a better way. That is to create tradable citizenships, which individuals own and against which they can borrow. Or they could leave the country and sell it. That way, rather than die asset rich, but having lived an impoverished life, oldies who created the community wealth could enjoy it while they are alive. This is a very difficult idea for some people to grasp, so most will instantly recognize it as a new idea and therefore inherently bad. It always amuses me that people can dismiss complex, novel ideas with an instant's thought, whereas others who have come up with the ideas struggle for a long time without finding show-stopping fault. CDMA was a case in point. A physics professor said it breached the laws of physics. But it obviously doesn't. Big companies said it was no good and GSM was all that was needed. We have all heard about the Luddites and NIH syndrome [not invented here for those who don't know it]. Mqurice