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From: Roy Patton <>
Subject: Re: [GERMANNA] Social Security Applications
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 14:23:10 -0500


At 22:38 07/05/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>on 7/5/01 5:16 PM, Roy Patton at wrote:
>
>> them rather than through the turbines. It's hard to argue against
>> reasoning like that.
>
>Here is his fundamental flaw: He thinks it will just keep operating "for
>free" when anyone with any sense knows that cannot be the case. And worse,
>he "expects" it to just "be free" because he just doesn't want to pay for
>it.
>
>I think that is why Communism collapsed, and I hope the right-thinking
>people in our great nation can grasp this ancient Chinese concept:
>
>"NO TICKEE, NO LAUNDRY"
>
>CMK
>
>


Craig,

His fundamental flaw is in believing that anyone, including the
"government", can provide a free lunch.

My statement was incorrect if taken at face value. It ISN'T "hard to
argue against reasoning like that." It's just hard to get an argument that
makes sense accepted if the mind-set was acquired without thinking.

Roy Patton

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