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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (1537)	12/11/2002 10:50:56 AM
From: portage	Respond to of 1715

Let's see. I get shot in the head. I go to the hospital. That's what hospitals are for. Great. We'll screw you twice, but there's a place you can go to heal later. In the longer run, deregulation only makes sense where you have easy duplication of the product, ease of competitive entry and of choice to switch services by end users, don't need an infrastructure to provide universal service for a critical service/product, and where market power cannot be excercised through consolidation and oligopoly.

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (1537)	12/11/2002 11:13:05 AM
From: portage	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1715

On second thought, your comment is really reflective of the cynical nature of those pulling these jobs. Speaking of energy dereg (not United), it was all about top insiders wanting in on the stock options gravy train, and totally abusing it. Did bankruptcy hurt Ken Lay or Mr. Pai ? They walked away with hundreds of millions, and everyone else suffered. Why is this crime still going unpunished (oh yeah, forgot, it's because of the crim sitting in the white house).