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To: TimF who wrote (373490)	3/10/2008 7:50:25 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573088

If you get a better job, and I get fired, then you have more money and I have less, but I didn't transfer the money to you. Not even close to a good analogy. The value of oil is variable. Its worth, to the extent it has any objective worth, what the market says its worth. If the price goes up than <then> people with a lot of it are wealthier, (they have a larger stock of wealth) directly because the value of what they owned changed, not because of a transfer. Duh. There are multiple transactions going on Tim, equal to half our deficit. Of course there is a wealth transfer. Admit you are wrong... please. This is like first grade stuff. You know what made this country great Tim? It wasn't our political system, it was our natural resources, especially the most fertile soil in the world... the Midwest. We are now a net importer of agriculture. The biggest wars have always been fought over important resources. The most important and precious resource in the world is now oil. We either change that equation (and we can with technology and discipline) or we transfer our wealth to those that have oil. History of the world Tim. It's not complicated. We act or we lose.