[eternity]

Thanks for the post. Interesting what free trade is doing to the state of Conn. Before a state once in surplus now in a big fiscal mess. A once proud manufacturing city of Meriden now has 35% of it's population on Medicade! I must say the future looks bleak.

[FITZ]

A once proud manufacturing city of Meriden now has 35% of it's population on Medicade! I must say the future looks bleak.

Here the insured population is only 32%, all the rest count on government programs for their medical care --- when the numbers already on government programs gets that high there becomes even more support for welfare programs and nationalized healthcare. This seems to be the real goal of the free traders, get so many dependent on the government there will be resistence to total Socialism.