On Nov 2, 6:58 am, "William Sommerwerck"
wrote:

If a politician says something untrue, you speak up. I see no reason why
that shouldn't apply to businesses.

William:

With respect, this is where you go off the rails and wind up a
steaming wreck at the bottom of the ravine.

Politicians make a fine art of avoiding truth. It is their stock-in-
trade, and the better they are at it, the more successful they will be
at politics. Not only is an honest politican an oxymoron, but one who
will neither succeed in politics nor in bringing home the bacon - er,
pork for their constituents.

Boss Tweed of Tammanny Hall defined an honest politician as: one who
once bought, stays bought. I would take a lying weasel (sex) such as
Clinton over a lying weasel (criminal behavior) such as Nixon or a
post turtle such as G.W.Bush (WMD) every time. Clinton got caught. So
what? Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, innumerable others did not. Lying
weasels all of them. That is the political world. The art of making
sausage is one that should not be too closely examined. What is far
more important is to educate that same great unwashed to think for
themselves. Don't tell them what is "right" or "wrong", but give them
the tools to discern the difference. Somewhat like what is expressed
in that old adage: Give a man a fish vs. teach a man to fish...

I grew up on Rikki-tikki-tavi: Run and find out. Sure one gets burnt
every so often. But one learns a lot.

Business has a single goal: Make Money. That is required for survival
and survival of businesses of any stripe is what provides jobs and
supports the economy and all that sort of stuff. "Profit" is the
difference between what something is worth (labor, material, service
and so forth) and what is charged or paid for it. If a laborer were
paid what he was worth, the company that paid him would fail in short
order. If goods and services cost only what they were worth, they and
their sources would fail in equally short order. It happens all the
time, every day. Bose is particularly good at surviving in a world
where audio in general and US-based audio in particular is severely
threatened by Pacific Rim amalgamation. Bose supports a pretty large
infrastructure in the US - something not to be sneezed at after all.
That they pander to the ignorant who also happen to have a few more
bucks than they need at the moment is just fine. Fleecing suckers is
an American Tradition that started with Erikson and continues to this
day, and will continue to the end of time.

Last note on this subject: Jimmy Carter was an honest man... and a
near-absolute failure as a President and politican.

Peter Wieck
Wyncote, PA