[hoosierham]

For the same reason Soviet Russia did for many years ; despotice centralized mis-management of people and resources.How hard would you work to grow food if you knew it was all going to be taken away?Communism never works;never has,never will.The lazy will do nothing ,and eventually the productive people tire of carrying the load.

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I predict that within the next day or two, Obama will announce that he was in the process of organizing a super-duper rescue operation.

The press will announce definitively that the rescue mission surely would have been successful, with no loss of life among the crew.