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To: Ilaine who wrote (3611)	5/13/2001 10:42:20 AM
From: Stock Farmer	Respond to of 74559

Hi CobaltBlue & DJ - Just a note to say I enjoy the tangential leaping that marks this thread. The amount of emotional energy expended to avoid the paradox of responsibility and reward is significant. Odd how the same people who were so "smart" with their stock picks in '99 are now "victims" in '01. John.

To: Ilaine who wrote (3611)	5/13/2001 12:55:19 PM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

>>...they do serve to remind us that politicians can - and will - turn an economic crisis into an economic catastrophe.<< Gosh, you got a point here. The shot from "Rosemary's baby" (unexorably) comes to me in such moments - when she cries out "I'm not dreaming, it's really happening to me". The thought that hunts me now and then - and this is central, not tangential, because I feel it is asking the right things for the times after -: what is growth and what is already cancer? How much growth is good and how much is bad? why's 2.1% growth in Germany so bad? Why does it have to be positive ("For Chrissake, who's this idiot...";)? Growth is a loaded word, it has many more aspects than just the GNP and take home pay and inflation. What about number of pages of books read? Of single mothers below 12? Community hours done. AIDS cases cured...