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To: tejek who wrote (150881)	9/5/2002 11:05:06 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586304

So why are you bringing those companies up? I never mentioned them......only the ones GM bought and dismembered. Because they show how the industry wasn't working out well in many places and that it was going away with or without GM. It wasn't like the industry was thriving without GM's action and then died because of GM. Yeah, when your communication doesn't make sense......as it has lately.....not made sense that is. The fact that many of the companies disapeared without any involvement from GM is a pretty simple concept. I said they were treated like slave labor; "like" being the operative word. Are you really this dense or are you playing mind games? If they where volentary laborers they chose their jobs. The reason why is that the jobs where often better then what they would have had otherwise. In a few rare cases the workers really may have been like slaves but in those cases the company really was operating illegally. "2 - The government has used actual slaves in the past, and also maintained slavery as an institution." Really? When was that? Before the civil war. Neither of which are slavery. The draft involves involnetary servitude. And forced prison labor is basically indistiquishable from slavery. The government is and has been the biggest polluter in the country. In many cases it tried to excepmt itself from regulations that it imposed on private industry to prevent or clean up environmental damage. Really? Again show me. If you are really so concerned about the environment the record is there. Since you insist on examples I'll show you a couple but think about the government has millions of employees and control over a signifigant fraction of the nations land it makes sense that it would be a big polluter as it is bigger and does more then any other organization. It also has had many nuclear facilities (weather for weapons or power or research), chemical weapons stockpiles, and just large amounts of explosives, petroleum and other chemicals used particuarly by the military but also by other branches of government. Also the government has been involved in huge construction progects and in subsidizng many poluting activities by the private sector. Ironically the EPA's headquarters was determined to be an unhealthy environment to work in a few years back. chem.unep.ch boondocksnet.com dnr.state.mo.us newsreview.com