Clarification: I mentioned brushing up on my red-baiting skills jokingly because you are a person of socialist sympathies. Merely talking about China's economy isn't red-baiting. That wouldn't make sense. I've offered facts and you've refused to answer them in anything more than snobbery, intolerance and rudeness. How anti- theist of you. Let me see if I have your m.o. down: you see a statement that doesn't compute with your view of the world so you say it isn't factual; when presented with the facts you not only do not apologize for your error you say they are raw (and presumably you will cook them); you divert attention from your original error by stating the "real" facts are elsewhere. ~Brian~ On May 10, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Andy Amago wrote: > Brian, anyone who thinks talking about China's economy is red > baiting is > clueless. The same about SS. You want to get rid of that which > you don't > understand. Pulling raw statistics off the internet means > nothing. There > may be thousands living on 401k's, but there are millions of retired. > Unless you can offer facts instead of right wing Cold War pablum, > there's > no point in continuing. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html