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The sickening fact that sickening is big business. An ignorant society is a sick society. Separation of church and state? Why didn't they understand that what was needed was separation of education and state?!

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haha.. don’t get ME started !

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Excellent piece and the first of yours I have read. You have a new subscriber!

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So, We pay the farmer to grow corn and then we make HFCS. We pay the poor to buy these products that are made with HFCS. The products lead to chronic disease. Now everyone has to manage sick people through health insurance. The equipment used to manage chronic disease is owned by the private sector and government officials. Am I close?

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Yes, sir, Mister Handel, you're beginning to get the picture. The government subsidizes the farmers to grow massive amounts of this stuff, which gets used in two crappy products: ethanol, which is crappy for car engines, and HFCS, which is crappy (and poison) for human engines, etc.

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Love this Essay .. For my 2nd ‘attempt - read it backwards - two paragraphs at a time.. even the big one - I deploy this when recognizing my 1st Read sucks the big one & just ‘skimming (if that !)

This ‘series ain’t as compelling for me - as the Aviation Mishap Series of course - but that Series told me what a truly serious dude your were / & likely remain

I don’t hold your ‘politics against you - nor do i really have an inkling.. mebbe just a mild suspicion. You likely own a gun - sold mine after leaving the farm - you’re American - I’m Canadian

will get back to ya .. as i has questions about the ‘proliferation of - bottled & canned Soda with Alcohol - taking over Shelf Space in the ‘Cooler section of Liquor Stores .. what’s that all about ?

🦎🏴‍☠️🇨🇦

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This isn't a new series - this was something I wrote some time ago, while I was more involved against this kind of corruption. I dug it out and updated it to show people about 3rd and 4th order consequences of things that they probably assume are benign or, at worst, not a factor at all to them (like legislation from the 1930s). This is my ode to Bastiat.

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Aussi, la famille de mon pere et toute canadienne - de Sherbrooke, au sud de Montreal. Je suis americain, mais mon coeur est aussi canadien.

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.. haha .. ‘synchronicity strikes deep - into your heart it may creep .. You’re a truly intriguing cat .. bro .. but was ‘serendipity - we cross paths .. 🦎🏴‍☠️

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There are no coincidences, mon vieux! Only synchronicities.

Well met.

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