SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  
To: Maurice Winn who wrote (18986)5/15/2002 12:08:59 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (3) of 74559
 
Maurice,

I mention the word community and I'm labeled a socialist/communist by you and Oblomov. I'm astonished at your ability to jump to that conclusion. What I had in mind was more like retaining tax bases so potholes can get filled, water supplies be maintained and sewers provided for public health benefits. How you twisted my words to create your totalitarian nightmare is beyond my comprehension. My concern is that corporations, in their blind greed, will destroy the infrastructure they rely on to create wealth with their extraordinary short-sightedness and small minded determination that greed is the great achievement of mankind. I beg to differ. Both with the corporate grasping, and with your silly and childlike characterization of my concerns about community.

Given their head, corporations would rape communities, much as Enron raped the California electric consumer over the last couple of years. From a base cost of $7 Billion for electricity in 1999, the state was forced to pay the "market" $27 Billion in both 2000 and 2001, helping to send the California economy into a tailspin. It isn't only the Left that is concerned about the criminal nature of this rape. This is the conflict I see, between raw-boned capitalists, bending the rules for sake of their own rapacious grasping, while leaving community twisting in the breeze. You don't have to be a socialist to see the basic injustice of this system of thievery.

-Ray
Report TOU ViolationShare This Post
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  

HomeMailHotSubjectMarksPeopleMarksKeepersSettings
Terms Of UseContact UsCopyright/IP PolicyPrivacy PolicyAbout UsFAQAdvertise on SI
© 2025 Knight Sac Media.  Data provided by Twelve Data, Alpha Vantage, and CityFALCON News