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To: koan who wrote (779276)	4/9/2014 8:12:56 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572614

I have found the best education can be found by reading and studying the smartest people on earth. We know who they are. Why read anyone else? How does that not make sense? You need to make your own mental integrations and stand on your own two feet. Socrates warned over 2300 years ago about putting your faith and hope in a political structure.

To: koan who wrote (779276)	4/9/2014 9:36:22 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572614

>> I have found the best education can be found by reading and studying the smartest people on earth. Here are a few people that are clearly among the smartest on Earth over the last 50 years or so. I wonder what you have "studied" by these people? Wm. F. Buckley, Jr. Milton Friedman George Will Charles Krauthammer John Bolton Richard Nixon F. A. Hayek Frédéric Bastiat

To: koan who wrote (779276)	4/9/2014 11:40:40 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1572614

Thanks, Mr. Obama. We're spending a trillion bucks and for the first year have insured -- ta da! A million people. Pathetic. This is why Democrats are failures and why Obamacare will collapse as people run away from it. Insurance premiums set to skyrocket, very few additional covered lives, and wrecking the best, most innovative health care system in the process. Notably, RAND finds that outside of employer-sponsored insurance, Obamacare’s impact on the uninsured has been minimal thus far—a net of 1.1 million between Medicaid (+5.9 million), the exchanges (+3.9 million), off-exchange individually-purchased insurance (-1.6 million), and other forms of insurance, such as coverage for federal employees and the military (-7.1 million).