[ExI] The Dogs of Immortality.

John K Clark jonkc at bellsouth.net
Wed Jul 9 22:14:44 UTC 2008


"Damien Broderick" <thespike at satx.rr.com>

> he's okay with the animals retaining $4.4 billion. His suggestion,
> which > might be grotesquely outrageous but isn't "every bit
> of the money"

Ok Damien I admit it, I may have exceeded my artistic license,
I'm sorry. Mr. RAY D. MADOFF was clearly saying that you
should be allowed to keep 55% of whatever wealth you have
created. Gee, what a swell guy!

>The little tiny bit the dogs would get to keep is thus 55
> percent of the current $8 billion donation.

No I take it back. I AM NOT SORRY! If you steal just
45% of my possessions I see no reason to feel any
gratitude toward you.

This example of the distribution of money is certainly idiotic, 
unusually so, so unusual it warrants a major news story. Yet
I would maintain that despite this admitted anomaly 
individuals can spend their recourses far more wisely than 
government beaurocrates. 

I really hope you dispute me on this last point because I
have an avalanche of idiotic government programs that I
would love to talk about that would make 8 billion dollars
spent on dogs look like the wisdom of the ages. And I'd
probably start with the Iraq war, and after that the 
abstinence form of birth control, and after that..

  John K Clark








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