Re: The earth is moving

[Bob Hoffmann <escape@alt-escape.com>]

At 05:33 PM 09/06/2000 -0700, John Danahy wrote:
>Hmmm.  I thought I remembered reading that the whole purpose behind the
>earth moving in the first place was to provide a suitable building site for
>a planned and committed "big box" type retail outfit.  The scraping of the
>hills, leveling and filling of the valleys, containment of runoff, and
>soothing upset neighbors was done and there is no retail outfit ready to
>move in??  Why then did it happen?

One of the great strategies of our economic system:

"Speculation."