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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (137859)7/5/2001 11:27:07 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1584579
 
Liberals did not invent greed and dishonesty...it started with all the conservative robber barons of the 19th Century and the very narrowed minded, greedy kings of the 18th Century.

Ted, greed and dishonesty started before our species started. The robber barons weren't really conservative either in the sense of resisting change (they changed a lot of things) or in the sense of having politics similar to the 20th/21st century conservative movement in the US. They weren't really for laissez-faire capitalism either. They enjoyed subsidies and liked restrictions on their competition. They where greedy, often unfair, and sometimes dishonest but they did a lot of good along with all of the bad and shouldn't be demonized as a whole class. They where one of the driving forces developing the country in the 19th century.

Tim
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