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To: Metacomet who wrote (88058)	3/16/2012 11:22:01 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217884

Funny you post that to me Mr. D.. I was just explaining to my kids 'again' yesterday that the middle class was being crushed here.. and what the plan (always subject to change) was I figure going forward.. I am not worried about US going away.. (Canada in more trouble IMO.. and all the spin on how solid we are is painting lipstick on the pig)... but the class demographics are

To: Metacomet who wrote (88058)	3/16/2012 12:40:05 PM
From: bruiser98	3 Recommendations Respond to of 217884

Free trade and immigration policies are determined by the 1%. Look at immigration. migrationinformation.org

To: Metacomet who wrote (88058)	3/16/2012 11:18:01 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217884

MC, regarding your recommendation for Robin Hood rules, you might not have heard about the Seven Cardinal Sins. Envy is one. The point about sins is not that a sin is something you do to others, it's especially something you do to yourself. I recommend you study Virtuous Victorian Values and the Seven Cardinal Sins. Google can help you with the latter. You can derive the VVV in part from the Seven Sins but there's more. Just studying envy will be a good first course for you. It's a difficult one for many people to get to grips with. When you think Robin Hood, it would pay to not think simply of a children's tv program but the Russian Revolution, Mao's Maelstrom, the French Revolution and many other instances of envy writ large. The child-like idea that wealth is a fixed amount to be divided up among people, redistributed to the favoured few and their political backers, leads to carnage on a grand scale. The difficult cognitive leap you need to make is to think of earnings as rewards for doing something for other people, not some nefarious activity robbing helpless victims. People who have a huge amount of wealth have done more than others to benefit more people to a greater extent. You should admire them for being so hugely useful to other people. It's difficult to grasp and especially if you are receiving opm as part of your way of life, which will cause a psychological bias against the idea, but give it a go. Taking money away from wealthy people and giving it to the government bosses, who seem enamoured of military action, is not going to improve life as much as the wealthy going shopping or more likely investing in more good ideas to produce even more wealth. You think taking money from rich people and giving some of it to poor people will be a good thing. It won't. State-run welfare has been an outright catastrophe. Mqurice