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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (31327)	10/8/2001 8:51:59 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Flash! There are no more robber barons. Technology has made them obsolete. Technology brought about by individuals.

To: cosmicforce who wrote (31327)	10/8/2001 11:19:24 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Do you think about poisoned streams when you buy a gold band for your wife or girlfriend? I don't think so. You're absolutely right. When I buy my wife a mocha at Starbucks (I can't drink their stuff, but she loves it as a treat when we go to America) I don't give a thought for the workers who pick the beans, or roast the beans, or for the runoff from the soil when it got slashed-and-burned to make way for planting more coffee trees, or whatever. I drive my F-150 without a single thought about the condition of the workers who drilled for the oil, or for the pollution in the oceans from leaking wells. Sometimes I think about those things when I come across the problem in person or through a news account. But not when I use or buy the products. You've got me pegged, I'm afraid.