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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 07:46:34 -0500
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On 8/30/2024 7:09 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 18:33:43 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 05:02:34 -0400, Catrike Ryder
>> <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 10:26:09 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 20:12:47 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 8/29/2024 8:08 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>>> On 8/29/2024 4:50 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>>>> On 8/29/2024 12:01 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 8/29/2024 1:47 AM, John B. wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If I read you correctly your definition of Democracy is
>>>>>>>>> a government
>>>>>>>>> in which each and every decision is decided by the
>>>>>>>>> voters, A bit
>>>>>>>>> cumbersome, isn't it?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yes. That was my point.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> OK, a kingdom with one unitary monarch is simple.
>>>>>>> Simplicity may not be a desirable feature.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Albert Einstein: 'Everything should be made as simple as
>>>>>> possible, but not simpler.'
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>> I was curtness enough to research the Einstein statement, above, and
>>>> apparently there is no evidence that he ever said it. The closest
>>>> approximation seems to be "It can scarcely be denied that the supreme
>>>> goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple
>>>> and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate
>>>> representation of a single datum of experience".
>>>>
>>> >From a lecture delivered "On the Method of Theoretical Physics" The
>>>> Herbert Spencer Lecture, delivered at Oxford (10 June 1933)
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If I were King I'd advocate monarchy!
>>>>>
>>>>> Our Constitution, in the cases and times where it's
>>>>> observed, works pretty well.  Good enough for me and we
>>>>> ought to try that once again. Soon.
>>>>
>>>> Ah, but then you'd have to give up all those wonderful federal funds.
>>>> It's a bit difficult to track down but in one place I found
>>>> "Under the American Rescue Plan, Wisconsin will receive $2.5 billion
>>>> in direct state fiscal aid and $1.9 billion in local government aid
>>> >from the federal government."
>>>>
>>>> So... 4.4 Billion divided by 5.893 million last (census)is something
>>>> like 746 for every man, woman and child :-)
>>>
>>> Recipe for inflation.
>>
>> Not "recipe"... today's reality.
>>
> 
> Indeed, the so called "Inflation Reduction Act" actually increased
> inflation.

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