>>I actually missed this line until Marcia pointed it out. JR, I've used those terms many times. And I know that others who pop in and out of the UT who hold similar views.
You've often cast provision of education and healthcare for poor communities from which an occasional diamond is found, as glorifying the Borg? If you say so.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
