Hi Bob,   
      
   On Sun 2012-Nov-04 03:17, BOB KLAHN (1:123/140) wrote to RICHARD WEBB:   
      
    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!   
      
   BK>  And so many think small businesses do pay that much. I could use    
   BK> some of that kinda small.   
      
   Dittto!  Most farmers with a lot in land aren't going to   
   leave that to their kids, even if they sold the farmland.   
   But, perception is everything, you know that.  The folks who want it repealed   
   will spend big money telling Joe Sixpack   
   that he can't leave his kids his white house with the picket fence and the   
   garage to his kids, and he'll swallow it, hook line sinker rod and reel.   
      
   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.   
      
   BK>  Hey, I didn't say it would happen.   
      
   YEah there's that.   
      
    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.   
      
   BK>  Don't worry, if Romney gets elected we will get to start all  over   
   BK> again, in the un-United States of America. I plan to live  in   
   BK> North-Easter land.   
      
   Were tthe breakup of the United States to occur I'd probably head for the   
   upper midwest again before the job was   
   completely done.  yes, a lot of rural, but a fairly well   
   educated populace.   
      
      
      
    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!   
      
   BK>  Exactly. The best of a bad lot of choices.   
      
   Right, and when given a menu of bad choices I'll try to go   
   for the one which is least bad.  The point for me is a well   
   educated healthy populace.  All one need do is look at the   
   middle east to see what the opposite would do for you.   
      
   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.   
      
   BK>  I do believe you got it right.   
      
   Right, but the only time that don't apply in their minds is   
   when itcomes to those less fortunate than they are.  but   
   then, the creationists etc. have made common cause with   
   people who don't have their best interests at heart either.   
   Or, I should say, big money has made common cause with the   
   relation fanatics for reasons of political expedience.   
   They've been duped, and aren't sharp enough to realize it.   
      
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
   ... Everybody does better when everybody does better.   
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