On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:45:48 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:
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But we have bigger problems -- notably a
lack of common ambition and goals
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Indeed, but an expected problem when the "elite" are "world
citizens" and the companies they control are transnational
corporations, while everyone else [except for the "undocumented"
guest workers] are American citizens, with their homes and small
businesses located in the USA.


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).