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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Rob wrote:
> At  11/9/2008 09:18 AM,Don  Bowen wrote:
> > This is mostly a miss reading.  Maybe over half of the population
> > is taking government checks but look at the distribution of that
> > half.  You have not just welfare recipients but military, local
> > police and fire, government employees, etc.
> >
> > Don Bowen  KI6DIU
>
> Just spin, lot's of that going on these days. Much better bad numbers
>  when you include the cop down the street and the fireman as "on the
> dole". These days maybe you should include half of the Wall Street
> bankers?

That's what I was going to say...also include insurance agents and
eventually, auto workers, casino operators,  etc. etc. as the 'you
helped him-now you gotta help me' effect dominoes through the business
world.  With new health care programs, probably you can put hospital
employees under the government's umbrella.  I think, when you include
every profession mentioned on this thread, you are way over 50%.
Before that happens, actually, it is happening now, people won't be
saying 'on the dole' because that is just too negative..will we call
ourselves the Fatherland, because the government is the Sugar Daddy, or
will we call ourselves the Motherland, because of her doting nourishment
of our needs?  I know that's extreme and probably won't happen, but I
seriously doubt we will be calling government help/entitlement/pay  'the
dole' for much longer.  It will begin to seem natural to the younger
generation.  Is this what 'progressive' means?

B

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