How to ruin America

Forbes magazine ^ | 23 december 2002 | Ben Stein

[MHGinTN]

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[listenhillary]

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[SwankyC]

Pagey, Out of curiosity I read your profile too and I have to ask what you mean by this,

IF you think L.A. is a horrible place To Live,To Visit,or Work In and Around,YOU need to take your Blinders Off

You love this crap hole?

[weikel]

Better than robbing the most productive at gunpoint.

[austinite]

Looks like the accepted Democratic Platform to me.

[varon]

Working closely with the teachers' unions, make sure that you dumb down standards so that children who make the most minimal effort still get by with flying colors.

Award HS Diplomas just for being enrolled for the 4 years.

[Willie Green]

Ben left out "balkanization" :

That's a good one, but IMHO a more powerful summary would be "to pursue a suicidal 'free trade' policy that unilaterally lowers our tariffs, encourages overseas investment and the collapse of our own industrial infrastructure."

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

You talk like this doesn't already happen in addition to the lottery. States have no business selling get rich schemes to the public.

[weikel]

Income taxes would be worse without a lottery. Lotteries don't have nearly the negative economic impact other taxes do because its a voluntary tax on generally the stupidest and least productive class. Its a lot less coercive than any other tax and less economically disruptive as it does not penalize the producers of society or penalize the act of trade. Ideally I wish everything could be run off the lottery.

[Pagey]

You have Freepmail

[oyez]

13.) Take away the public's means to defend it self.

[oyez]

I'd love to see where the 14 billion really go. All those perspective students show up at the undeveloped colleges and universities and stick around for a semester or two just to drop out.

Any way why spent the money to institutuons that tech these twelve points as doctrine?

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

The lower class consume far more than they would ever return in the form of lottery payments. That situation will remain if they continue to believe that gambling their discretional income away is a better way to get ahead than hard work and self improvement.