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To: pgerassi who wrote (130877)	1/28/2001 3:30:51 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571691

Pete, Its laughable that you forget that foreign relations is in the perview of the President. That is the ones who set policy. Congress does do some backseat driving of course. It is laughable that you forget that the President sends the budget to Congress. BTW: It sounds like Bush's Defense Secretary is quite a bit more intelligent than Bush is: Rumsfeld, welcomed to the Pentagon (news - web sites) with a military parade, warned in a speech to the troops that much had changed since he previously served as defense secretary under President Gerald Ford a quarter-century ago during the Cold War. ``We are safer now from the threat of massive nuclear war than at any point since the dawn of atomic age,'' he said. ``And yet we are more vulnerable now to suitcase bombs, to cyber-terrorists, to the raw and random violence of the outlaw regime. dailynews.yahoo.com i.e. Star Wars is a waste of money. Do you think his boss is intelligent enough to figure out what Rumsfeld is trying to say? (Of course not, he is a moron.) Scumbria

To: pgerassi who wrote (130877)	1/28/2001 6:25:04 PM
From: f.simons	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571691

Pete, BTW, you probably are not laughing about the haircut you net worth took during the selloff triggered by a loudmouth who said that Tantalum Capacitors are decreasing in price ergo a recession is coming. Doesn't take much to get you going, does it? Maybe the name "Tantalum" should mean something to me, but it doesn't. Does it somehow affect any of the stocks in my profile? Did you respond to the right post? What did I say that got you going on this? My net worth was down last year for the first time since 1988 by about 15%. Not pleasant, but I'll survive. I assume you meant stock and mutual fund holdings by "net worth." If I include other assets, the drop was negligible. Frank