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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (93022)	7/28/2012 11:09:26 PM
From: dvdw©	Respond to of 217552

There are multiple transitions underway... even the most competitive labor rates of China inc...have counter programs. Labor has utility within most of the old paradigms.. Those paradigms are retreating rapidly...will even the lowest costs of labor compete with the machines? Team USA housing market will never return to the old model...Manufactured housing will dominate by the end of this decade...the variable time shapes of capital are already telling us, low price against high growth in demand means the system has an expressed desire to rob existing shareholders. take a look at all system stocks.SIRI,GE,etc......high debt, labor liability, questionable equity. ,,,,,,,,,,,debt makes pigs ears silk in todays world of prices as artifacts of systemic contrivance. The unwinding of this mess is ongoing,,,the broken dealer matrix busted. $

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (93022)	7/29/2012 5:33:38 PM
From: skinowski	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217552

OT: Thought you may find this interesting. You Don’t Own Your Citizenship To some people, their citizenship is a very significant part of their identity. Others see their citizenship as basically an accident of what latitude and longitude their mother was at the day she delivered a baby and what political powers of the day were claiming authority over those coordinates. In either case, most of us feel that our citizenship is ours and ours alone. But if we really own our citizenship as we own other personal property, shouldn’t we have the right to sell or trade it? Bear with me. We live in a mobile society. Every year millions of people move from country to country for personal or professional reasons. So if a Canadian wants to live in New Zealand and a New Zealander wants to live in Canada, and they both own their own citizenship, why can’t they come to a contractual arrangement where they trade citizenship? Uh-oh, a new idea to increase personal freedom. Better find immediate objections! - “Foreigners will take ‘our’ jobs.” No. One person leaves the country and another enters, there’s no new pressure on the labor market. - “Bad people will come into ‘our’ country.” Perhaps bad people will leave our country in similar numbers. The one remaining, openly encouraged, nearly universal bigotry in this world is toward – foreigners. Every country has politicians and interest groups who operate on the premise that the people in our country are generally good and the people coming in from foreign countries are generally bad. Therefore measures must be made to keep out any more foreigners. Like those damned Canadians. - “Citizenship is a privilege.” A privilege granted by whom? Your owner? Citizenship is a relic. It comes from the days when people were basically property of a king, pharaoh or other dictator who put them to work so he could tax them for his benefit. I’ve made my living online for over a decade. I do it from all over the world and I collaborate with other productive people all over the world. Why should anything get in the way of that peaceful, productive enterprise? Unless we’re someone’s chattel and he wants his pound of flesh from every transaction inside his fiefdom. - “We’ll lose our national identity.” The stasis argument. Everything should stay the way it is now and we need to coerce people in order to ensure that happens. But where are the ancient Greeks discussing philosophy all afternoon? Where are the conquering Romans of the empire? Where are the Englishmen in bowler hats? National identities, as usually defined, are mostly self-flattering and often blind to deficiencies. Cultures evolve and all of them need to. Some desperately. When their evolution is stifled it injures all but the coercive power elite. One look at the current ambitions to return to a 9th century Muslim caliphate boldly illustrates the retrogressive effects of trying to enforce stasis. The truth among free men is that if I want to live in Wellington and a Kiwi wants to live in Toronto we should be able to trade passports and citizenship if we agree to do so. (And the passport is also a relic, but I’ll fight one battle at a time in this post. Read it and you’ll see it clearly states it is owned by your government, not you.) The harsh reality is you don’t own your citizenship. You don’t really own your identity. These are granted to you by a coercive state that retains the strings that operate you like an obedient puppet. Do something the state dislikes and you lose your right to travel under the arbitrary citizenship rules. And you can never sell or trade your citizenship to a willing buyer under terms agreeable to you because your identity is owned by a third party – not by you. Now get back to work and send him the money you make. petesisco.com

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (93022)	7/31/2012 1:29:51 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217552

europe is an amusing side show, but just a side show soon we must turn our attention to the fiscal cliff, the political machinations leading up to edge of cliff, and then, just maybe, the firing notifications to defense contractor workers per requirement of automatic cuts ala fiscal cliff unless and until ... wonder how they would vote in november should they receive notification in november let us watch n brief from vantage point through big window