On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:15:25 -0700, "John R. Carroll"
wrote:

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It all depends what "job" they were attempting to do.

I believe the term is "Crony Capitalism" isn't it?
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One man's "crony capitalism," is another man's "just being a pal
and helping a friend out."


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).