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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (73276)	4/20/2010 8:21:18 PM
From: Gib Bogle	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

It seems to me that what you really object to is looting by the many, rather than by the privileged few. You are relatively comfortable with deserving GS traders getting multi-millions, but it offends you that undeserving poor people should get welfare assistance. In your belief that things were much better in Victorian days, there is an unspoken assumption that you would have been one of the beneficiaries of the looting. But you would more likely have been one of the vast majority of the poor with little prospect of advancement, fit for a life that was nasty, brutish, and short. The good old days were not.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (73276)	4/24/2010 10:26:51 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 74559

>>that's not really how the Anglos took over so much<< Mq, that's what made the USA! 1) First we got Britain to help us kick the French out. 2) Next we got France to help us kick the British out. 3) Then Manifest Destiny took over and we spread ourselves from Sea to Shining Sea. Thus we got the world's largest common market, operating under a common language, common laws, and a common currency. Those are incredible economic and sociological advantages. In comparison, just look at the problems Europe still has with all its petty little fiefdoms and umpteen languages. Like the 27 national air traffic control networks that hampered coordination over the recent volcano ash fallout... Europe seeks new air traffic control system news.yahoo.com