John McMahon
2 min readDec 23, 2022

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Last Sunday I took my grandson to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History on the Mall in Washington DC, and he is at the age where he loves dinosaurs. The museum did not disappoint. All of the exhibits were effctive and up to date, and I think I enjoyed them as much as my grandson, and we both learned a lot as well. The Deep Time Exhibit/ Fossil Hall renovation was funded by the mentioned David H. Koch. It didn't cost us a penny to visit. In fact, most of the exhibits throughout the Smithsonian system are the result of wealthy benefactors,

"Some 40 million (poor people) to be precise and victims they are, to be sure."

That number is hardly precise, and of course the standard that measures poverty in this country is regularly changed upwards. I live near public housing and it is nicer than the rental I live in. Obesity is a greater problem for the poor than starvation in this country, and I regularly see people using EBT cards in the supermarket.. The budget for Medicaid is well over $600,000,000,000 a year, and no one dies in front of a hospital because they can't pay. And of course everyone recieves free public education, but no one can make them take advantage of it.

The only people in this country who could possibly want communism are rich people who have never had to experience want, had to wait in line, or had to share a bedroom with someone else. Oh, and they have also never touched a history book to see that everytime communism is tried it is a police state shitshow that turns all but a tiny number of people into "the poor".

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