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"Thorny Devil" <so_thorny@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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| > We're destroying the very people who will invent cures for cancer, FTL drive
| > starships
| > and cold fusion energy plants by screwing them over in their early years and
| > sending them to school with thugs, morons, drooling mongloids and being
taught
| > by the same.
|
| That is quite true. As long as people can't buy their way into the top
| schools, or get special dispensation/reduced entry requirements for
| the colour of their skin/ethnic background/family history/religion
| etc. for that turns the process on its head. It doesn't really benefit
| the power elite to have too many intelligent and educated people
| running around though, so it's unlikely to ever happen - reminiscent
| of brave new world.
|
| >
| > nota rex I

What the power elite fail to understand is that the available pool of inventors,
doctors, researchers and such cannot come soley from the small pool of
the power elite, that top 2% who own most of the world's wealth.

The greatest time in history of the world for inventions, quality of life
increases,
increase in longevity, decrease in infant mortality and many many other benefits
that benefit people AND the power elite, was the rise of the American
middle class after WWII.
Great incomes, consumer protections, a low tax rate, low sales taxes, protected
investments, retirment plans, affordable medical care, affordable schooling and
affordable housing resulted in our going to the moon, becoming the greatest and
most powerful and richest nation in the world in only 20 years.

Now that pool is shrinking.  The inventors are getting knocked out by absurd
education
costs, rising taxes that prevent families from saving money, more and more
govenment
power that restricts people's development, inititiative and savings, and the
it's gotten
so bad we have to import math and science people from India now to just stay
even.

We used to send Americans all over the world to help other countries out, now
they send
their people here to help us out.

We're a declining nation, and we're not the richest anymore, we don't have the
longest
longevity, our medical, housing, tax and education standards are falling rapidly
and the
rich are getting richer and the poor staying the same and the middle class, the
great
american middle class is declining precipitously.

I'll give you a microcosm example:  In Texas the University system just raised
fees
for students $450 a year going up every year.
This despite the fact that the system has billions of dollars from it's athletic
departments
and other income.
Why?
The main reason is:  To give scholorships.
Read between the lines and the result is, because we have the end-around racist
policy
of affirmative action which has been changed to letting in anybody in the top
10% of
their high school class, no matter if they can read or write, this is a way to
fund the
poor, finger counting mumbling masse's attempts to waste 6 years in the UT
system
taking basketweaving, basketball and english.
What does this do?  It take the money from the middle class and re-distributes
it
in a socialistic way to the poor.
The rich don't care.  They can afford anything and most likely don't go to this
crummy
school anyway.
So basically, the UT system raised taxes on the middle class to fund the very
people
who shouldn't be in college to begin with, further deteriorating the value of a
degree,
which is pretty worthless right now anyway and taxing the middle class yet
again.

This is directly opposite of what an intelligent person would do if they wanted
to reward
someone for working hard, saving and valuing education.
Or is it?
I tend to believe the upper 1% are doing this on purpose to complete the process
of
turning America into a nation of stupid, sheeple who for whom they're told to
vote for and are too unducated to think anything diferent.

My point though is that this is very shortsighted on their part.  Sure, they
gain more
power and control, but temporarily.
When the American middle class is disintigrated, when most of them money and
power
has shifted all to the top 1% and all the rest are poor or lower middle class,
then you've
effectively cut your arms and legs off for the future.
You can't run a race to Mars, to cure cancer etc if you only have half a brain,
no legs
and no arms.
The giant pool of highly educated middle and upper middle class people who do
most
of the inventing and discoveries is shrinking at an alarming rate.

I'm waiting for the day that Super Bowl will be two football teams with swords,
shields,
lions and crocodiles on the field chasing a football and killing each other for
the
howling masses of the hoi polloi in the stands.


Nota Rex I