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To: i-node who wrote (990051)	12/24/2016 4:27:10 AM
From: James Seagrove	4 Recommendations Recommended By i-node isopatch Thomas A Watson TideGlider Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1569456

The old wheeze of playing on guilt is what Koan relies on. If mooching doesn't work Koan and company have no problem using force. Koan and Hybrid-Vigour If you took all the money of all the richest people in America and put it against the national debt it wouldn't make much of a dent and it would destroy the country at the same time. The moment Koan realized he was not the center of the universe.

To: i-node who wrote (990051)

12/24/2016 2:40:01 PM

From: koan

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Your post is a common right wing talking point, but scientifically incorrect.

The terrible irony is that the people that elected Trump, the poorest people in the country, are also the ones that use Obama care, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, food stamps and welfare the most. And they have no idea that Trump and his oligarchs are about to take as much of that away from them as they can. It is tragic.

When we became civilized,about 12,000 years ago, we started leaving the law of the jungle behind. "competition is the law of the jungle, cooperation is the law of civilization" Eldridge Cleaver.

The countries on earth that are doing the best are all Democratic socialist countries. The countries that are doing worst are the capitalist dictatorships. In a democracy cooperation is the name of the game.

The countries that are doing best, are the Nordic countries, Japan, South Korea, Iceland and much of Europe. And they are all highly educated Democratic socialist countries.

The countries that are doing worst are the Central American countries, with the exception of Costa Rica, much of South America, all of Africa, and most of the middle and near East.

The above countries, are more often than not highly uneducated, dictatorships and have raw capitalism without social controls. And they are terrible places to live.

The key ingredient for a strong and powerful country is the level of education the people achieve. Every research paper I've ever read shows that the more education a person has the more money they will make and the more productive they will be

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Why on Earth would you EXPECT the "rich" to do something for you? This country was built on people doing for themselves. Maybe with the help and kindness of their neighbors. Survival of the Fittest demands that that we not create a nation of dependents. They will not survive if they don't develop self-reliance.