Re: Medicare Means Test

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George Conklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> George Conklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> >"Herman Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> >>> And what would have been the effect if the ones who founded
>> >> this country behaved like that?  They would still be slaves
>> >> in Europe.


>> >   It was the United States which had slavery, not Europe.  Your history
>> >sucks Herman.




>> The life under a totalitarian regime is essentially slavery.
>> Serfdom is probably worse than slavery.


>   Living in England is not worse than slavery Herman.  You trivilize the
>suffering of real slaves by such statements.



>> BTW, Europe did not end slavery that long before the Civil
>> War; the Haitian revolt was a slave revolt,

>Hati is in Europe Herman?  How is your geography doing recently?

Haiti was under French control, and Cuba unders Spanish.


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