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    Government activities are important to the economy for two reasons. First, there direct effect on business practices. Second, the Federal government expenditures comprise a fifth of all GDP in the United States.

    Secession of the Rich
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    Secession of the Rich

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    The 1% ignore all the societal benefits that accrue to their position, since they don't use them directly.

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    Outrageous Cost of Healthcare
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    In 2015, one million bankruptcies were caused by health care bills.

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    Who is the man Sandy is talking to? Oh, never mind. To see Michel Fokine dance to the music of Stravinsky would be heaven indeed.

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    It's a good living, even during this Great Recession. It will remain so as long as politicians want to appear as benefactors when they're actually predators.

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    I worked in software design for thirty years, until I retired in 2010. Before that, there was a stint in the Marines, a job as a stock clerk for a data processing shop, and then college under the GI Bill. In the work force, I got trained in programming, moved up to tech analysis, and after night school at Johns Hopkins APL, shifted into software architecture and data warehousing. During those years, married with a growing family, I stuffed my ideas and projects into folders and file cabinets—for when I retired. Now, these years.

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    I also post on the mind’s working. I’ve been a Mensan since 1973, studying the mind as an interested observer. Visit the Mental Construction site. How does neural characteristics of the brain affect our thinking? Mainly by abstraction, similarity, and association driving the non-logical aspects of our mind.

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    Tabulators separate ballots into piles for each presidential candidate during a recount in Dane County (Wis.) on December 1, 2016 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Getty)