Hello Bill,   
      
    LL>> Should welfare recipients be sterilized as a condition to   
    LL>> remain on welfare?  If so, who would pay for such a procedure?   
    LL>> Not even insurance companies provide such coverage for working   
    LL>> folks.  Conservatives seem to like the idea, even going so far   
    LL>> as to make it a new publicly-funded government program ...   
      
    BM> They're not scientists when it comes to climate change but they certainly   
    BM> are doctors when it comes to genitals... and not their own.   
      
   Eugenics.  It was practiced widely in the US - until after   
   WWII, where we found that Nazi Germany had adopted a eugenics   
   system based on our very own system.  But now that all those   
   nasty Nazis are dead, and folks have forgotten all about   
   Dr. Mengele and Adolf Hitler, conservatives in the US are   
   trying to bring back the program to its former glory days.   
      
    BM> Publically funded??  Thought they wanted smaller government??   
      
   Are you kiddin' me?  Corporations love it!  Corporate Welfare   
   is much more insidious than people realize.  For example, the   
   Farm Bill passed by the Congress includes a provision that   
   a farmers' crop has a 95% guarantee.  IOW, if a hurricane or   
   flood or other disaster wipes out a crop, the government will   
   buy up to 95% of the value of that lost crop.  I call that   
   agri-socialism.  And you wonder why the cost of farmland   
   is so high in America.  It is so absurd that the cost of   
   swampland in Louisiana is beyond the reach of most folks.   
      
   But hey.  Small farmers have been bought out by corporations.   
   There are no more small farmers in Iowa, with over 90% of the   
   state's population now residing in urban areas.  The same is   
   true all over the country, not just in Iowa.   
      
   Politics in America has become nothing but a game for the   
   rich.  Billionaires funding Republican candidates, and other   
   billionaires funding Democratic candidates.  Doesn't really   
   matter which candidates win, as everybody knows everybody.   
   Just as soon throw everybody in the same bag, shake it up,   
   and pick a number at random.  The tag is just a tag, and   
   means not a wit.   
      
   If you think I am making this up, look at the congressional   
   elections we just held.  An equal amount of money spent on   
   candidates of both parties, with each party having its own   
   set of ultra-wealthy contributors.   
      
   Follow the money.  There definitely is a trail.  Always is.   
   You just have to know, or figure out, where to find it.   
      
   --Lee   
      
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