On Sep 13, 12:28*am, harry wrote:
On Sep 12, 11:11*pm, Oren wrote:

On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:05:59 -0700 (PDT), harry
wrote:

Ball valve are cheap crap. Just as likely to corrode and non-
repairable.

Hogwash! *Mine are stainless steel and work every time. Have been for
over half a decade.

'Course in the UK, one never knows what the government is telling you.

I think you need to worry more about your own government.


You go, limey! We don't know what the hell our government is telling
us. For just one example, take the Environmental Pollution Agency.
Maybe tsome things are slightly better under Obama, but it will take
forever, if even possible, to repair the damage caused by the Bush
(and preceding Reps) robber barons.

Note that the REAL "robber barons" of old were cruel, mercenary,
corrupt, etc.etc. but at least they LEFT us something tangible -- like
Libraries, Foundations, Railroads, great Buildings, and othe useful
assets. Not this Wall Street crowd; it's just a giant casino,
and screw the Pee-pul. Capitalism is a better system than any other
(given the fallibility of human nature as shown by the repeated
failures of idealistic societies) but it has to be run on a moral
foundation or we end up like we are. How come some wildly successful
capitalists manage to give back to the society? (a) because they get
tax breaks and (b) because they think it's morally right to "give
back".