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To: gg cox who wrote (210517)	1/25/2025 12:45:12 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 217669

Who pays for the infrastructure? Public work? Armed forces? etc shush Socialism?

To: gg cox who wrote (210517)	1/26/2025 4:52:11 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Recommended By Arran Yuan Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217669

Oh dear GG, you commies really can't understand things. In your whole life , have you always stood completely alone and never taken anything from your government? When stuck in a totalitarian system of territorial tribal alpha male murderous dominance hierarchy of cannibals, thieves and bludgers, one has a big problem = those evil doers make the rules and will kill those who don't comply. Being fancy criminals, they invent "laws" which they impose on their subjects. They say "Give us everything you produce or we'll kill you". Then they give out a bit here and there to bribe sufficient people to keep control of everyone. So of course subjects have to comply or die. So of course I have received things from the government. Dying is an undesirable option. Some psychopathocrats take nearly everything, like Kim the Fatter, whereas others take comparatively little as they find it a better way to keep the gravy train going and the pork barrel club functioning. The basic problem is that humans have evolved from chimps and we're only part way to Utopia, though we've made fantastic progress thanks to evolutionary elimination of defective genes unsuited to a better way of life. Chimps and commies are simply not competitive with Utopians with high horsepower more civilized brains. I'm such a super high horsepower civilized Utopian that not only have I thrived in their barbaric system but there are enough others that we've managed to change those in charge for better people and also invent amazing things to enable everyone to benefit. I accept what's on offer from the psychopathocrats in charge and do for myself what's not on offer. Do you pay taxes? Big heaps, being an extreme high-functioning Utopian though I evade paying anything I can [if I can be bothered]. When I was young and ignorant, gullible and figuring things out, I actually thought for a while that I didn't mind paying taxes to build good stuff that's desirable. But I didn't then understand the venality of over half the population. I was barely into adulthood when I started understanding how bad they are. If you don't pay tax they kill you if you resist, gaol you, and just take it anyway. How are you handling your family’s healthcare? Always CASH? Or from inheritance like trumpo? Cash on the barrelhead. No insurance. Accident and Emergency services aren't available privately. When working in Ontario, they had introduced their commie OHIP service. In England one is stuck with the NHS and I've received NHS services. In USA I just paid cash. When adequate medical treatment is provided free in the commie system, I use that. If it's inadequate and medical people provide cash on the barrelhead services I use those. I don't buy insurance because I'm a risk evading honest person who doesn't do insurance fraud and don't want to pay for high risk careless people, insurance company employee and administrative costs, company profits, have to do battle with making claims on the insurance, pay tax on the company profits and "goods and services" tax to the government. Same reason I don't insure cars. Mau at 20 years old ,, on the end of that wheelbarrow of cement,, breaks a leg . Cash of course. I was paying tax on earnings, which was a compulsory government insurance scheme. But by then I had money to pay for things though not big things. If the government wasn't forcing their insurance on me, I would likely have bought some myself until I had enough money to cover likely costs. Better than insurance or government "protection" rackets is not breaking a leg. I opted for not breaking legs. It's nice not wrecking oneself. Very cheap. Mau a stand up guy,, doesn’t rely on OPM… NEVER. Definitely standing up. But as there's no option, of course I drive on the opm roads, But I do opt to pay for privately owned and tolled roads where available such as the beautiful road that avoids the 405 south from LAX to San Diego over the hills with no traffic jam. I forget its name. Sometimes when your great ideas are examined,, not so great. Yes, over decades I have had ideas that I've had to change when I understood the faults in them. Such as thinking when young and ignorant that some commie stuff is good. I had never heard of Ayn Rand until only 30 years ago when an employer suggested I read "Atlas Shrugged". I was pleased to see that long before me, there were people who had such amazing high powered brains that they could also understand my ideas. Long before I was born there was a children's book, "Tweedles Be Brave" which we had. It was about the same ideas. Many people seem to be able to figure it out. It's not like high-powered maths and esoteric concepts in what makes reality which requires one of those supersonic non-chimpoid brains. The faults in commie thinking are understandable by regular people who are good people. Bad people like commie ideas. Dumb people often like commie too as free stuff is tempting to them and they don't see that they've been hooked as surely as dumb fish on hooks have taken the bait. It's a work in progress. The evil wicked Democrats nearly got us to the end of the world in nuclear conflagration. They are I suspect actual sadists who enjoy the suffering of others = a million dead Ukrainians and Russians. Barack Obama being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for being articulate and having darkish skin was horribly ironic given he was in charge when he and co-conspirator commies conducted the murderous conquest of Kiev and Ukraine in 2014, thereby starting the war. Obama, Clintons, Nuland, Brennan, McCain, Graham, Biden10%, and the whole evil gang ... Outright criminal. But the absurd gangsters want to arrest and do to him what they did to Milosevic and anyone else who opposes them. Murder Assange, Murder anyone who gets in their way. For the sheer fun and pleasure of it. Useful idiots are not so sadistic, evil, venal, self-dealing psychpathocratic kleptocrats = they just get their morsels and leave their owners in charge. Mqurice