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To: brian h who wrote (52945)	7/31/2009 4:50:35 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Respond to of 218068

TJ's brilliant reinvention of the wheel for political systems was amusing. He appears to have copied the USSR constitution in which old geezers appoint each other to the politburo and run the country "for the good of the people". The politburo appoints the next "Dear Leader". It's true that mob rule electorates voting to spend OPM, well over half of whom don't pay the taxes they vote to dispose of, is a crazy and self-terminating political system, but that doesn't mean China's totalitarianism is a good idea. It's better than the totalitarianism they had when they followed Albanian economic systems and political style, but it's not as economically successful as nearly any other democracy [Zimbabwe doesn't count as a democracy nor did Saddam's voting, or Iran's appointing of candidates]. If government employees, are included as non-taxpayers, along with pensioners, children, prisoners, beneficiaries, layabouts and we throw in those living on government spending such as contractors to the government, it must be close to 90% of the population shouldn't be voting. Voting to spend OPM is just slavery by another name. The meaning in both is: "You work and we will dispose of your earnings to our benefit". Mqurice