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To: elmatador who wrote (62456)	4/22/2005 3:44:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

<"take over at least part of the USA again." With an advantage: now with the goodies on it :-)> ElM, that's the trouble with too many people, they think they can take over wealth by stealing it. In the olde days, when wealth was found, and involved ownership of land, gold mines and other resources wealth could be acquired by taking over. Now, wealth is a product of intellect. It always was to some extent, but now it's nearly all brainpower. Japan for example grows rice quite well, but other than that, they have to get all their wealth from productive enterprise involving civilization and brainpower. If stupid takeover people grab Texas, for example, the brainy people will move out and leave it to the invaders who will be bewildered as to why they aren't immediately rich. The most common way of trying to steal wealth these days is by voting to take other people's money. That doesn't work either, which must baffle the stupid voters. Redistribution of wealth, as though it's butter that can be spread around evenly, is a popular democratic process, which doesn't work. Ironically, it has the opposite effect - some smart people do get money from the process [the intermediaries and con-men], but the poor people get not much, mismanage what they do get, and if they vote to take it all, they get even less because there's nothing to spread around. Whupping the tax-paying slaves wouldn't work either. Whupping works for digging ditches, picking cotton or building pyramids, but it won't work for creating and solving third order partial differentiation equations out of thin air. 1 million productive Kiwis have left NZ, leaving 4 million preponderantly bludger type. The 1 million are the more productive people, not refugees. Mqurice