>"Some will rob you with a six-gun, and others with a fountain pen." Woody
>Guthrie said that. Somehow in America different forms of theivery have
>been justified. Corporate down-sizing, automation and accompanying
>lay-offs for fattening CEO salaries and shareholders is theft by my
>definition. So is buying politicians who then vote tax-breaks for the
>rich.
>The common people have a right pursue decent meaningful lives and there
>has always been an element of rich and powerful, under some guise of
>"rights" and "justice" who would take that away.
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Thus begins an argument for re-examining the fundamentals of our economic
system. An unchecked market economy can be, and often is, a brutal critter.
So what's next?
Greg Meyer
"The cold war is over...and we won" (A quote often heard, always disturbing
and untrue.)