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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> >Government can help or hinder, but people must  
> change the choices they make and the actions they take; they must be  
> responsible and they must not expect government to do the work for  
> them. Gee, sounds like the homesteader mindset.

Which mindset I have, and perhaps you, and perhaps a score or so other people 
here.  That leaves about 345 million more people to go.

As has also ben remonstrated here, people aren't going to do that.  They 
aren't going to start conserving water until the well runs dry.

The danger here, says I, is with Obama's 'redistribute the pie' promises.  
People imagine that under Obama there will be no more war or corporate 
giveaways 
and so suddenly there will be plenty for everyone.

I will begin saying it now, and point this out anytime it manifests (and many 
times when it doesn't just to stay in practice) ... look at Zimbabwe.  All we 
have to do, said Mugabe, is take those farms from the wealthy evil white 
people and every Zimbabwean will have all that wealth divided by the number 
of 
Zimbabweans.  Within a short period of time the motivation for generating all 
that wealth that once possessed all those who actually knew how to do it was 
close to zero and the country went from one of the most prosperous in Africa 
to 
the poorest, destitute in fact.

I earnestly believe that Obama buys his own schtick.  He really thinks, like 
Mugabe did, that if we didn't spend all those billions in Iraq, it wasn't 
made 
as profit by oil companies, it wasn't given as bonuses to Wall Street CEOs, 
we could just divide that much money up by the number of "poor" and we'd all 
have a bundle.

To the extent that Obama gets his "redistribute the wealth" druthers, welcome 
to Zimbabwe.