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To: Davy Crockett who wrote (6899)	1/29/2002 8:36:06 PM
From: Davy Crockett	Respond to of 36161

Well, I'm very, very disappointed to say the least. The college where I work, has, in its indecipherable wisdom, decided to cancel the Risk Management (which I mentored & championed) program & replace it with a Financial Planning Program. Talk about being behind the curve. Go figure... Regards, Peter

To: Davy Crockett who wrote (6899)	1/29/2002 11:23:30 PM
From: isopatch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36161

Peter. It's funny. Many years ago, after I'd been a broker long enough to see through the PR spin, gimmicks and BS that WS firms use to keep most employees in the dark about the real game, eventually got pissed off enough to quit the biz!! But after some follow up, putting more and more of the political social and economic pieces together, it quickly became clear that "the system" had always been run that way. That is, for the benefit of a small gov and corporate elite that fleeces the public while the press provides cover for all but the most extreme transgressions. Of course, those were dramatized and promoted as aberrations to provide an emotional safety valve for the general population. It rarely sinks in that relatively few of the elite wrong doers are exposed and sentenced to those "minimum security tennis ranches". And with the short attention spans and shorter memories possessed by most, as soon as the dust dies down, and the glare of TV lights recede, the sheep are soon ready to be sheared again. Been a long long time since I've been the least bit angry about any of this. All societies are composed of a small elite that is more or less predatory and a "host" population that supports them in a life of privilige with relative immunity from accountability. In our nations, the elite is far less destructive and exploitative than in most other societies. So we are really quite fortunate. Particularly, once one learns how the traps are set and hidden from the less perceptive. There's even quite a lot of humor in some of the less skillfully wrought schemes.<G> Cheers, Isopatch.