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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (112909)	2/10/2002 11:08:51 AM
From: Sawtooth	Respond to of 152472

OT 'How times have changed' (Jon, I'm surprised you haven't posted this already <grin>): Feudalism - You have two cows. Your lord takes part of the milk. Fascism - You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk. Communism - You have two cows. You must take care of them but the government takes all the milk. Capitalism - You have two cows. You sell one cow and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell the herd for a substantial gain and retire. Enronism - You have two cows. You borrow 80% of the forward value of the two cows from your bank, then buy another cow with 5% down and the rest financed by the seller on a note callable if your market cap goes below $20B at a rate 2 times prime. You now sell three cows to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at a 2nd bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more and this transaction is upheld by your independent auditor but off the balance sheet provided with the press release that announces that you, as a major owner of cows, will begin trading cow ownership units via the Internet site Cow.com. ......VVVVVVVV ; )