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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (72134)	1/19/2010 11:46:37 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Yes, but the founding values were still that people were serfs and possessions of the state rather than the reverse. It was still just tribal interests. So, with the chance of getting a piece of the action by voting, people increasingly nabbed their own piece of the state pie by voting for the person who would dish out the goodies to them. The change that's required is for individuals to benefit directly when the state does better. At present, nobody benefits directly by the state doing better other than in the collectivist very highly diluted sense with no proprietorial rights, while half of the population does MUCH better if the state's assets are doled out to them as state employees or bludgers. So there is continued pressure for more and more of the collectivist mentality. By making people proprietors by way of tradable citizenship, the individual interest would be to see the state not as a pork barrel but a valuable asset which should be increased in value for direct and personal interest. Mqurice