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    RW>   The trouble is, if left to its own devices   
    RW> that inheritance tax would have kicked in for a couple who   
    RW> passes along $7 million to the kiddies.  I don't think I   
    RW> know anybody who would come anywhere close to that!   
      
    And so many think small businesses do pay that much. I could use   
    some of that kinda small.   
      
   BK>>  Oh, I want to do away with almost all welfare. Simple to do,  just   
   BK>> make sure there are enough jobs to go around.   
      
    RW> A nice thought, see below.   
      
    Hey, I didn't say it would happen.   
      
    ...   
      
   BK>>  Research will not accomplish much if we don't put it to use  here.   
   BK>> Bring back the factories. Put tarrifs on imports from  cheap labor   
   BK>> countries.   
      
    RW> Good luck with that!  The trade advocates will never go for   
    RW> it, and to compete with those folks we have to toss   
    RW> workplace safety under the bus as well.  We get a good   
    RW> start anyway by not making employers responsible for health   
    RW> care coverage, but providing it some kidn of way so as to   
    RW> keep a healthy productive populace.   
      
    Don't worry, if Romney gets elected we will get to start all   
    over again, in the un-United States of America. I plan to live   
    in North-Easter land.   
      
    ...   
      
    RW>> to step into the gap.  There's only one entity that can be   
    RW>> reasonably expected to step into that gap, and that's the   
    RW>> Federal government.   
      
   BK>>  Oh no... you said a dirty word.   
      
    RW> I'm not saying I like that option, but, it's the better bad   
    RW> choice.  The only other choice is none for anybody who   
    RW> can't afford to pay for it.  A healthy educated populace is   
    RW> productive, and a benefit to itself.  An unhealthy poorly   
    RW> educated populace is dangerous!   
      
    Exactly. The best of a bad lot of choices.   
      
    ...   
      
   BK>>  Uh... yeah... that should be obvious... or do creationists   
   BK>>  really believe God made us so much better than everyone else  that   
   BK>> we don't have to make any effort?   
      
    RW> YEs they do.  'consider the lillies of the field, they toil   
    RW> not ... "   
      
    RW> I may have paraphrased that wrong, sorry 'bout that.  Been   
    RW> awhile since I saw that passage.   
      
    I do believe you got it right.   
      
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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