<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Sep 10, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Tim Halterman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>"I'd say produce or starve is a flaw." </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>A flaw in the nature of the universe perhaps.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>"Capitalism requires people to do something they possibly may not wish to do"</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As does communism. </div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div>
<div>"I'm not going to defend the Soviet Union, that wasn't really my point. I will say however [...]"</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>The use of the word "however" in the above context seems as inappropriate to me as saying "The holocaust was bad, however [...]</div><div><br></div><div>The truth of the matter is that the Soviet Union was just about as evil as Nazi germany.<div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>"We all pay taxes, we all own a piece of a gun."</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Interesting choice of words. I pay taxes for one reason only, I have to, there is a figurative gun pointed at my head; and if I really got serious about not paying my taxes I would soon find myself with a literal gun pointing at my head.</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">
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