Re: Medicare Means Test

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gretchen Evans  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 12 Nov 2003 13:53:49 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herman
>Rubin) wrote:

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>>See the above.  You statists seem to consider European health
>>schemes to be the ones to follow.  The Latin American countries
>>are overpopulated and not particularly civilized; they do not
>>have areas to move in and be free, and Asia and Africa are as
>>bad or worse.

>Check out my suggestions, but you can't be picky, sweets, you have to
>take some bad with the good that you're going to create. 

With the "liberal" view starting in the 19th century that
any idiots or savages squatting on a territory have an
absolute right to stay on the land, and cannot even sell
that right, this is the case.  Quite a few of the Indian
tribes were living on land they had expropriated from other
tribes, some quite recently.  In fact, one of the tribes
complaining about its treatment by the US was on land which
two other tribes had a treaty for, with the Civil War 
causing them not able to ask for assistance.  That tribe
was kicked out of Minnesota by a different tribe.

>>Libertarians did try to found a colony on unclaimed land in the
>>Pacific, but were quickly evicted by a pocket-sized country.  This
>>island would have been able to handle a few tens of thouusands, at
>>most.

>Interesting that they'd select some south Pacific island.  Why not
>look in Baffin Bay?  I'm sure there's some land up there available. 

UNCLAIMED.  Everything in Baffin Bay belongs to Canada.

They found a small atoll which none of the maps indicated
belonged to anyone.  I believe it was Tonga which sent its
navy to grab it.

The most realistic suggestions I have seen have been to
put up an anchored city in the Caribbean, or to make a
deal with Russia for Arctic Ocean land; the latter might
run into the current fuss about environmentalism.


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