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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of Democracy
Date: 23 Oct 2024 00:38:20 GMT
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:58:07 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On 22 Oct 2024 17:34:50 GMT, rbowman wrote:
> 
>> The problem lies with differentiating between the care of the old and
>> infirm and the support of generations of an underclass.
> 
> A nation’s most valuable asset is its people. Like it or not, the
> “underclass” seems to be where most of the future population is coming
> from, in many countries, as the birth rate among the affluent elite
> drops below the replacement level. So if you don’t invest in that
> “underclass”,
> your nation will end up with no future. QED.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-38GX2YQig

Quite a bit of investment has been made in that dusky underclass for 
seventy years with little to show for it than riots when a drugged up 
felon dies during an arrest. I fear you are correct and there is no 
future. Not my problem.