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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (213646)	1/2/2013 1:38:23 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541759

<<<You can't force people to borrow and spend. >>> You are right. We do not live in a dictatorship. We live in a democracy where we can create an environment where people can borrow, spend, and invest in opportunities where they can create wealth. Unfortunately, there are negative forces that enable and make excuses to increase economic disparity between the bottom 98+% of the population who has to dig out from a huge economic hole and the super rich. I don't have the numbers, but I will be you dollars to donuts that whereas each of us in the bottom of the economic ladder has a tiny ownership if not negative ownership of the wealth that is part our country, the top 1% or less has a huge balance in percentage or absolute terms of wealth in our country. Why in the world should anyone in the bottom 98+% say or do anything that will directly or indirectly widen that gap. Helicopter Ben is not the enemy. He is doing what he is mandated to do. He is printing money because he has to. Helicpter Ben is well aware of the problems we are confronting. Using him as some kind of enemy of the people adds nothing to the discussion. It only obfuscate the real problem and that only helps those that do not need any help from you, me, Ben or anyone else - the super rich. I am not against the super rich only the greedy super rich who are not willing to allow the rest of us just a little more