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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (228286)2/18/2002 8:15:18 PM
From: Peter O'Brien  Respond to of 769670
 
>The corporations have duped the American people into paying for a
>War Department that uses its muscle to enforce the corporate will on
>the world. Shouldn't the corporations pay for their protection racket?

Ha Ha Ha Ha..... ROTFLMAO!

The last time I checked, federal taxes were running at about
20% of GDP while defense department spending was only 3%
of GDP.



To: Raymond Duray who wrote (228286)2/18/2002 8:23:25 PM
From: Selectric II  Respond to of 769670
 
War's not relevant to his question, and it's a broad and unwarranted overgeneralization to imply that all corporations benefit from war or "enforce corporate will on the world," whatever that means. The U.S. didn't invent capitalism and international trade, nor is it its only practitioner.

How was your last anti-globalization protest? Get teargassed? Was that you in front of the camera showing off 25 body piercings?


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