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["clanSkeen" <sgian AT planetc.com>]

Lynda writes:

> I don't think this is a good analogy.

No, it isn't overall.  The only common ground is wishing for something that 
if it were implemented, they aren't going to consult you on how you'd like 
it tailor made for you.

Every person, it seemed, who advocated a USDA definition of Organic, thought 
that it would exactly describe their little farm.  It took no rocket 
scientist even back then to guess that it was going to more closely resemble 
ADM than barefoot hippies.

Like that so many who is 180 lbs overweight, on 18 prescription drugs for 
imagined illnesses, and has scarcely done any productive work their entire 
adult lives imagine that if we just had Socialism, they'd be able to sit on 
their posteriors and get all the more wonderful drugs all their lives -- and 
more money to spend on electronic gadgets and CD's.  They might be very 
surprised if we suddenly went to a supportable socialist system and they 
were told "There's nothing wrong with you, lose the weight and report for 
work."

It's only in that way that it is a comparison ... careful what you wish for.

James