"Larry L" wrote in message
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well put, Larry. It's sort of enlightening that our founding fathers built a
system of government, not an economic model. They knew what was truly
important, and also knew they couldn't forsee the economies of the future.

What John doesn't see is that when it comes to healthcare, we are talking
about something that ought to be a birthright of citizenship, not a profit
center. It works well that way in so many other places, there is no reason
it shouldn't here.

What Dave regularly misses is that income has been redistributed from day
one, either by government or at the point of a gun, or a host of other
methods. He talks as if what he has earned has no bearing on governmental
programs, yet admits he was a child of a home which benefitted from public
assistance. Still, no mention of paying my family and thousands of others
back for the fact he was allowed to grow up and earn, rather than starve in
a gutter, thanks to governmental largesse.No big thank-yous for the GI
benefits he started his career upon, nor the pension he draws, thanks to our
tax money. Hell, every last person in this nation with any sort of
substantial wealth is the beneficiary of the largesse of others, somehow.
It's how the system works, and has worked for damn near forever.

Tom