Hello Bill,

 LL>> Should welfare recipients be sterilized as a condition to
 LL>> remain on welfare?  If so, who would pay for such a procedure?
 LL>> Not even insurance companies provide such coverage for working
 LL>> folks.  Conservatives seem to like the idea, even going so far
 LL>> as to make it a new publicly-funded government program ...

 BM> They're not scientists when it comes to climate change but they certainly
 BM> are doctors when it comes to genitals... and not their own.

Eugenics.  It was practiced widely in the US - until after
WWII, where we found that Nazi Germany had adopted a eugenics
system based on our very own system.  But now that all those
nasty Nazis are dead, and folks have forgotten all about
Dr. Mengele and Adolf Hitler, conservatives in the US are
trying to bring back the program to its former glory days.

 BM> Publically funded??  Thought they wanted smaller government??

Are you kiddin' me?  Corporations love it!  Corporate Welfare
is much more insidious than people realize.  For example, the
Farm Bill passed by the Congress includes a provision that
a farmers' crop has a 95% guarantee.  IOW, if a hurricane or
flood or other disaster wipes out a crop, the government will
buy up to 95% of the value of that lost crop.  I call that
agri-socialism.  And you wonder why the cost of farmland
is so high in America.  It is so absurd that the cost of
swampland in Louisiana is beyond the reach of most folks.

But hey.  Small farmers have been bought out by corporations.
There are no more small farmers in Iowa, with over 90% of the
state's population now residing in urban areas.  The same is
true all over the country, not just in Iowa.

Politics in America has become nothing but a game for the
rich.  Billionaires funding Republican candidates, and other
billionaires funding Democratic candidates.  Doesn't really
matter which candidates win, as everybody knows everybody.
Just as soon throw everybody in the same bag, shake it up,
and pick a number at random.  The tag is just a tag, and
means not a wit.

If you think I am making this up, look at the congressional
elections we just held.  An equal amount of money spent on
candidates of both parties, with each party having its own
set of ultra-wealthy contributors.

Follow the money.  There definitely is a trail.  Always is.
You just have to know, or figure out, where to find it.

--Lee

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