<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6b35bd47-fcf6-42e5-85e1-df146e533c95/9CE69671-78AF-43BF-AA95-2790C7E822E4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2009/10/the_public_shoe_system.html" href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2009/10/the_public_shoe_system.html" style="font-size: 11px;">plancksconstant.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2009/10/the_public_shoe_system.html"><P>During WWII my father was the manager of a shoe factory in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Private factories did not make shoes, the government manufactured shoes. If jFp lived in the Soviet Union back then, he would argue that without the government, people would walk around barefoot; that if it weren't for the government subsidizing shoes no one would be able to afford a pair. Obviously we know that is not only patently false but the reverse is true. Most of the Soviet population lived with a standard of living indirectly proportional to government programs, subsidies, grants, handouts, etc. As the number of government projects increased, the standard of living decreased. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2009/10/the_public_shoe_system.html"><P>We do not have government-run shoe factories in America, yet even our poor ghetto youths sport $150.00 sneakers. Had we had a G.I. Bill to help people buy shoes, only those getting government handouts or the very rich would have been able to buy them.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9CE69671-78AF-43BF-AA95-2790C7E822E4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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