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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (136903)	9/4/2005 9:52:38 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793856

But these days, with redistribution by governments of taxes taken from one lot of people to another, with private property being disrespected in all sorts of ways by governments with unmitigated power, and being voted for by a large proportion of populations, the concept of private property, production, and created wealth are fizzling out. You are one of the smartest people I have ever run into. I would guess that your IQ score is somewhere between 30-50 points higher than mine. But, the world is complex. It is even too complex for a mind like yours. What we have been able to accomplish with the binary system is amazing. However, the binary system has its limitations as to how we can depict this world using only the properties of that system. Yes, the concept of private property is wonderful. Yes, it is wonderful that we have gifted and talented people that can create wealth through individual effort. Perhaps, you may be right. The "intelligent designer" really would like to see only the most gifted and talented people survive. The paradox however is that those that believe in "ID" are usually not the most gifted and talented. We have to have a bifurcated system. We have to incentivise the most gifted and allow them to do what they do best. At the same time we have to take care of those that can not take care of themselves. There is no way, at this point and time, that you can convince people to trash (or dispose of)what you would call the least admired human beings. Means testing to achieve your point of view would be impossible. Now one saying "George Bush doesn't care about black people". Pathetic. They should save themselves. They should have been thinking about saving themselves before the hurricane was even a glimmer in the eye. Did they have an inflatable raft in case the levees breached? Did they have water stored? Food? How could common people (without as you would point out with much intelligence) could possibly have foreseen that the hurricane could cause such damage? Even the President of the Unites States could not have imagined such a possibility.