"Benj" <bjacoby@iwaynet.net> wrote in message 
news:7cd0b563-f414-4b5d-bd74-b1c5d8d202cc@g27g2000yqh.googlegroups.com...

Lenin had a way of dealing with dissenters.

So did Mao Zedong.

So did Pol Pot.

One interesting question is what do we do for the labor required for
harvesting food such as picking grapes for our wines, picking melons
for our breakfast tables, working in the orchards, or harvesting
vegetables, as examples, and for menial tasks of all kinds we assign
to foreign or domestic "cheap" labor forces? Again, a merit system
would apply and participants / workers would all get a chance to
compete and excel.

I'm sure there'll be a long line for THOSE jobs!

Apparently John didn't get the memo that the "envy of the world" the
USSR crashed and burned under the weight of it's own "central
planning" bureaucracy.
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I accept your apology, BJ.