Chase, as Evelyn has posted, I do not believe a visit to the SHAPE board is necessary for you. While although we respect women more than to use language as the B word you wrote, that is not the point. As I posted on the other board, it is hard to educate someone when they have already made up their mind. In the conversations you and I have had, you constantly disregarded the points I made and change course of the conversation. That is why I quit talking to you. Your mind is made up and no amount of proof is going to change it.
I think as Dennis said it, we preach to the choir. The choir will listen and even try to come up with more evidence to prove the point. The ones who won't listen will not try to show proof, just the same ole rhetoric we have heard over the years.
It is a proven fact that the United States Government has not had the People of the United States best interest in mind in several instances, take Vietnam for instance.
I believe that the same happened in the take over of the Government of the Republican Party in 1860. They had a goal that the Southern States disagreed with, so to achieve this goal tey needed to change the Government. They knew the Southern States would try to secceeed if certain facts happened. While the Southern States, representatives were out, they made changes that couldn't happen while they were in.
Moneymen have always controlled out government, and they will always go their way, no matter what the American public think.