[extropy-chat] The Long Now: Bets and Predictions Over Time

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Tue Sep 28 18:02:45 UTC 2004


If the New Deal & Great Society are yet so important,
then why pick on gays who want to get married?
But all that pales into insignificance when you take a
sober look at what is developing in the Middle East.
For the first time in my life it appears to me another
general war is a fair if not good possibility. In the
worst-case you will forget all about FDR, LBJ, gay
marriage, getting shot in Kuwait, and everything else.
Who would ever have thought the 21st century would
start out this way?


> As petty as Johnson, who pushed through his Great
> Society? or Roosevelt
> who pushed through radical restructuring of the US
> economy during WWII
> that fulfilled many socialist goals, including the
> Current Payments Tax
> Act, which mandated all employers be the tax
> collector for their
> employees and allowed the federal government to
> collect interest on
> withheld income prior to tax day, whereas in
> previous years taxpayers
> paid at the END of the tax year. The change in the
> rules confused so
> many people that the number who reported taxes,
> whether they actually
> had to or not, rose in one year from 6 million to 22
> million.
> 
> =====
> Mike Lorrey
> Chairman, Free Town Land Development
> "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of
> human freedom.
> It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of
> slaves."
>                                          -William
> Pitt (1759-1806) 
> Blog:
> http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism
> 
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