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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (57092)	10/29/2009 11:56:36 PM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Respond to of 218927

come maurice, stop waffling, and quibbling is most unbecoming to make your silly point you could have just mentioned that some folks income also did a 30x, even if that fact has naught to do with the awful truth, that there are few trouble free hoard-able items that did as well as the one true wealth marker and capital tally, that be gold in the mean time, just in in-tray player 1: A good piece by Peggy Noonan today. Congress seems to think that people will simply "take it." She (and I) disagree.. online.wsj.com SNIP: Rep. Barney Frank had just said on some cable show that the Democrats of the White House and Congress "are trying on every front to increase the role of government in the regulatory area." The executive said of Washington: "They don't understand that people can just stop, get out. I have friends and colleagues who've said to me 'I'm done.' " He spoke of his own increasing tax burden and said, "They don't understand that if they start to tax me so that I'm paying 60%, 55%, I'll stop." He felt government doesn't understand that business in America is run by people, by human beings. Mr. Frank must believe America is populated by high-achieving robots who will obey whatever command he and his friends issue. But of course they're human, and they can become disheartened. They can pack it in, go elsewhere, quit what used to be called the rat race and might as well be called that again since the government seems to think they're all rats. (That would be you, Chamber of Commerce.) player 2: the american bleb civilians, conveniently divided into bite-size interest groups, while well-armed, are extensively digitized and can neither stand up to the fearsome layers of authorities (who can cancel his drivers license and atm and visa cards at the push of a "delete" key) nor face off against equally indignant but other interest groups (who can cancel his ballot), and lack the trial-by-blood pre-storm be the likes of tian an men that puts the frighteners to the authorities, and, as the plebs are more rather than less faced-off in the aggregate by each other, all holding a ballot thinking it is actually useful while navigating through what shall prove to be the shit storm of once in so many generations, resolution cannot be at hand even as the financial-military-de-industrial complex continue to pilfer, prevaricate, rob, spin, bonus, lie, steal, lie again, embazzle, lie twice more, tax, legislate, tithe, lie ad infinitum, and print, ad naseam. so, yes, the resilient americans will "take it" until such time they re-grow some collective balls, kick some aggregate ass, and become as tough as the patriotic chinese peasants. as chairman mao once mentioned in passing, political power grows out of a gun barrel, and revolution is not a boston tea party.