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To: Rarebird who wrote (59344)	10/4/2000 12:50:29 PM
From: Ken Benes	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116760

I believe there is awild card in the situation, the democrats winning the white house and taking control of congress. This will unnerve the markets as the unchecked ambitions of one party may result in the spending of a lot of the surplus. Currently, the large surpluses are offsetting the large trade gap. Should those surpluses become suspect, there will be an impact on the dollar. What a fall in the dollar will mean for the pog, it is difficult to say because of the the negatives surround the gold market. I firmly believe it will take a crisis of panic proportions to cause a flight to gold and a meaningful rise in the pog. Ken

To: Rarebird who wrote (59344)	10/4/2000 4:30:45 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116760

<<I support manipulation on behalf of lower energy prices.>> Beware of Governments Bearing Gifts by Russell Madden "The government is on your side...The government is not out to get you. Corporations are... The government is your friend... (I)t...protect(s) you from rapacious corporate greed." In perusing old notes, I ran across these sentiments expressed by a columnist for a major computer magazine. I daresay, these comments reflect the attitudes of a vast number of American citizens. For over a century, the tides of public opinion have risen against businesses of all types and sizes. Despite ebbs and flows, this flood of negative judgment does not yet appear to have reached its high water mark. A complex web of factors has contributed to this alteration in the portrayal of entrepreneurs. These men and women created, expanded, and improved the products and services that have provided us with the highest standard of living in the world. Despite continuing advances in health care, transportation, housing, food production, entertainment, computers, and countless other products, many people harbor nebulous feelings of anger and resentment. This bubbling hatred is directed towards the very individuals who make possible the necessities, comforts, and luxuries that enhance their lives. How has popular perception diverged so radically from reality? Part of the problem is philosophical. Even while some residual, pragmatic cultural influences encourage people to work hard and struggle to achieve their dreams, other social pressures denounce and demean any emphasis on enjoying the results of those otherwise laudable efforts. With the prominent exception of Ayn Rand's writings and those of others operating from an Aristotelian perspective, physical comforts, convenience, and mirthful pleasure are frowned upon by prominent agenda setters. When ascetics, philanthropists, and volunteers are held up as the pinnacles of moral rectitude, it is little wonder that those who reject the examples of Mother Theresa and her kin are, at best, tolerated as necessary evils and, at worst, vilified as purveyors of evil and destruction. Few stop to realize or discover that without those whose focus remains firmly fixed on this world and how to tame it to serve human ends, ninety-plus-percent of the world's population would perish. Even many leaders who do recognize the contributions of capitalists (cont) zolatimes.com