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To: koan who wrote (985124)	12/2/2016 2:16:13 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By jlallen Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570741

>> I'll be glad to explain it to you the private sector, is dictatorial. There is a boss, or a CEO and he decides what happens. The people that he employs have nothing to say at all about it. They can make their case. If he decides against them they can pack their crap and go somewhere else. Not "dictatorial". It is business. >> What ddo you think they were creating in 1776? "A republic, if you can keep it." >> That's your bogeyman government, our democracy, the will of the people. Obamacare was NOT the "will of the people." Period. Never was. The people still hate it. Trying to talk with you about this stuff is like talking to a five year old. Seriously. No idea about the ways of the world.

To: koan who wrote (985124)	12/2/2016 2:24:39 AM
From: James Seagrove	2 Recommendations Recommended By dave rose FJB Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570741

“Democratic” in its original meaning [refers to] unlimited majority rule . . . a social system in which one’s work, one’s property, one’s mind, and one’s life are at the mercy of any gang that may muster the vote of a majority at any moment for any purpose. The basic premise of the Founding Fathers was man’s right to his own life, to his own liberty, to the pursuit of his own happiness—which means: man’s right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; and that the political implementation of this right is a society where men deal with one another as traders, by voluntary exchange to mutual benefit. Ayn Rand Lexicon

To: koan who wrote (985124)	12/2/2016 3:47:38 AM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1570741

The shady history of the bank owned by Steven Mnuchin, Donald Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary, is only getting darker as details of the institution’s often ruthless practices resurface. As a multi-millionaire hedge funder, Mnuchin fattened his personal fortune through his co-ownership of OneWest, a California-based bank that profited during the height of the financial crisis by engaging in an array of unethical practices. OneWest made predatory loans to the elderly via reverse mortgages and went on to aggressively foreclose on people’s homes, according to regulators and watchdogs. Housing advocacy groups accused the bank of racist lending practices like redlining, which is illegal under the Fair Housing Act.