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To: THE ANT who wrote (79637)	9/15/2011 7:27:48 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 220000

I discovered the scam early enough at 23 years old. I had an accident pole climbing real pole climbing at 65m high tower. It was the best thing that happen to me. An accident kick started my brain by jolting it. Social Security gives a false sense of security in the person. I decided (after that accident) to have, from then on, 6 months of my gross salary in a bank account and be my own Social Security. I did it. After 6 months was saved. I would buy something. I did and made a discovery having money made me strong. It was power to have money. I could job hop learning more on-the-job because I had money in the bank. I got huge discounts paying cash. I could dine expensively because I had already done the six-month thing. A sales guy seeing a pile of money makes the guy kick start for that money do not go out of the shop. I used to go to the shop in the weak sales period after knowing the lowest price. Then I'd tell my price. For a color TV (I wanted to watch 1978 World Cup in Argentina in color.) I made my own price and pointed to the car on the sidewalk in a busy street in front of the shop. "Load before police come to fine me as I drew a pile of money from my jacket pocket." He saw the money. "I need to count it. It will take time. I need the manager to agree." He got into action. And the shop manager came out to see a guy buying a color TV, cash, (1978 a color TV cost a lot of money!) He saw me and though I may be a thief laundering money. He asked: do you have an ID? I showed my Philips Telecommunications badge. In about 10 minutes the TV was loaded in the Philips VW Variant and I drove off. As a meat eater, I would go eat baby beef at Rubaiyat restaurant. (valets parked the Philips VW Variant calling me 'doutor'). I would go to Basque restaurant to eat Chateubriand flambéé au Cognac. Once I started earning real money I went to one year full gross salary in the bank. Always saved. 40 years working this year. The only expensive thing I have is a Rolex GMT Master watch.

To: THE ANT who wrote (79637)	9/16/2011 3:26:04 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220000

Financial imbalance is the symptom. The root cause are many other imbalances. Too many people poor people concentrated in a few places. Too much people able to work for any money any condition These two above are facts of life that we can't do anything about. It is the natural progress of human race. The imbalance is that countries embarked in the Industrial Revolution and other were left behind. Those who participated in the Industrial revolution got rich benefitting from scientific technical progress. The rest were left incommunicado, subject to superstition, religions, blind obedience to power that ruled them. Beliefs in the past of glories. Ideologies force-fed down their throat. Once technical progress and education opened the eyes of the ones left behind, the systems that ruled them fell apart. USSR and Mao China bit the dust. It happened before exactly a century ago: Collapse of the Qing dinasty, British, Habsburgs, Ottoman and Romanoff empires They collapsed because the real world had overtaken the institutions that ruled over those peoples. It is going to happen again.