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To: gerard mangiardi who wrote (49366)	6/8/2005 9:40:40 PM
From: Wayners	Respond to of 173976

There are no laws requiring people to get married, have children they can't afford, buy things they don't need, not save money, not work hard in school provided for free and on and on. Personal responsibility! Sure if somebody is disabled, or handicapped or mentally ill thats different. But most of these people go to work for 8 hours come home and watch TV for the next 4 to 6 hours, they don't personally develop themselves, they don't read, they don't do jack. They don't try better themselves, learn a trade, improve their skills, even if that means simply getting a book reading it and practicing a trade or skill. Sloth is not and should not be rewarded.

To: gerard mangiardi who wrote (49366)	6/8/2005 9:58:11 PM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Lets say you tax the crap out of the rich and 100% equally distribute the Gross Domestic Product of the entire United States to each person that lives here, each person only would get $41,000 a year. That is all. In reality what would happen is for $41,000 a year, every single business owner would close his business because their hard work they put in over their lives isn't worth it to them for $41,000 a year. So they fire everybody and go home and do nothing or retire. Before long, half the country is unemployed and GDP is now half of what it used to be. Now distributing the wealth again at the end of the next year, now everybody is getting distributed $20,000 a year. This is the socialist system. It is no utopia.