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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (70601)	1/28/2011 2:09:57 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218924

VVV do not reside in a library, city council building, government offices, legal precedent or written laws. < since the US was a success due to VVV (your words I believe back a while) to what do you attribute their present folly ? or Britain's for that matter.. do they wear out or will these states return to glory ? > VVV are intrinsic to each individual. 1 person by themselves in a sea of Evil cannot do much at all. As the proportion of VVV increases in a cultural flow, the advantages accrue and become dominant. 100 years ago, the USA was a nation of toiler workers, savers, investors, inventors, going flat out in all dimensions. While they had glitches, some huge ones such as The Great Depression, there was a fairly continuous process of learn, work, save, invest, spend carefully. In recent decades, the process has led increasingly to welfare, socialism, regulatory suffocatocracy, high taxation, borrow and hope [by governments and individuals]. The people who did the original construction 100 years ago and fifty years ago have died, replaced by people with less of the VVV. Welfare is not VVV. Borrow and hope is the antithesis of it. Unethical and criminal swindling of other people is ruinous and conducted by both governments and individuals. VVVs do not wear out nor are they limited like an oil well which runs dry. They are more like english - available to all with no royalty or fees payable to adopt the. The more who use the lingua franca, the easier it is to deal with others and the greater the network effect. Handing $trillions of quantitatively eased loot to favoured buddies is the opposite of VVV. Bankruptcy and even death are intrinsic to VVV for those who get things wrong. Driving fast, drunk, into a bridge abutment is not VVV and is fatal. Speculative borrowing and gambling is not VVV and leads to bankruptcy. Lending deadbeats 110% of the price of an overpriced house is speculative borrowing and gambling. Mqurice