On Feb 3, 12:50*pm, "John R. Carroll" wrote:
Ed Huntress wrote:
"John R. Carroll" wrote in message
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F. George McDuffee wrote:
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:20:03 -0800, "John R. Carroll"
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If the government is not exercising many of its
functions, responsibilities and duties now, why would any sane
person let them acquire additional power and responsibility?

Because it's been extremely succesful in - - - - *Canada.

You must have noticed that their own banking and financial services
industry avoided ( by direction ) *the noose the rest of the world
ran it's neck into.
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A good argument for outsourcing. *How much do you think Canada
would charge to run the US? *Nothing else seems to have
worked....

I doubt that you could wrap a big enough ball of cash around that
order to get them interested.
LOL

I wish I'd saved the link to a piece Christia Freeland wrote for the
Financial Times recently.
You might have seen it anyway.

It's he

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/db2b340a-0...44feabdc0.html

Worth reading, IMO.

Off the subject completely but LaHood made a statement today that Toyota
drivers ought to stop driving their cars until they can be fixed.
How's that for poking your biggest competitor right in the eye!
I wonder if these turkey's EVER think before they speak. I'd be mad as hell
if I were a Toyota shareholder right about now.
My tax payments would have just enabled one of my competitors to mess with
sales figures and the valuation of my equity.

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Well John...it is the truth.

Why would anyone knowingly drive a death trap?

This is also the reason why management needs to listen to their
engineering staff...the company knew they had a serious problem and
continued to sell a defective product.

Finally this is the reason for stock holders to hang the management by
their gonads...they did this to you while merrily pocketing their
bonuses.

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