Re: Chain Stores

["John Danahy" <JDANAHY@turbonet.com>]

> > what was the cause of the revolutions in our history?
> Briefly and at the risk of oversimplifcation: The root cause of the
> bloodiest revolutions -- English-Puritan, American, French and Russian --
> maybe Chinese too --  was the gross inequities in the distribution of
> wealth and power. Data suggest that when about 35-40% of the population
> begins to experience poverty and hardship to survive decently, the social
> unrest takes on political forms and leads either to insurgency or
> anarchy   (Snip)

And a political solution to the social unrest is to make sure there are
plenty of distractions available for the 30-40% of the population.  Consider
the riots of the 60's in many of our cities and also consider the complete
failure of the government's " War on Drugs"

John

John and Laurie Danahy
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