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   From: recscuba_google@huntzinger.com   
      
   Socialism fails  wrote:   
   > On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 06:59:35 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> -hh wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
   >>   
   >>> pothead  wrote:   
   >>>> On 2025-12-30, Governor Swill  wrote:   
   >>>>> …   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> While Republicans may rejoice in the loss of allies, rising inflation   
   >>>>> and unemployment, Presidential support for dictatorships, disdain for   
   >>>>> democracies, and the falling value of the dollar, the rest of us do   
   >>>>> not.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I'm doing fine.   
   >>>> Hope you are as well.   
   >>>   
   >>> Whistling past the “K” shaped economy.  /s   
   >>   
   >> Indeed. It's the people at the bottom of the K that get hurt the   
   >> worst. Any deficit in their finances is proportionately more   
   >> devastating.   
   >>   
   >> Some of us have real sympathy for that situation. Others, not so   
   >> much.   
   >   
   > Chances are good that your "real" sympathy is for your own situation.   
      
   How much have you donated to your local food bank this year?   
      
   As much as you like to ridicule collectivism, there’s invariably self   
   interests.  Reducing poverty also reduces crime, for example, and it’s   
   cheaper than hiring personal security guards.   
      
      
   -hh   
      
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