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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (28421)	2/23/2003 2:49:14 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57110

exactly ! that is the reason why overseas starts to become a better business venue... first they are masters of corruption, (not that the domestic kind needs any lessons), but the justice system here is bad news under such environment. you now have an empowered new breed of bureaucrats with a punishing system that will not forgive the slightest misconduct... whereas offshore... so we learn to accept the corrupt ways... but by the same token their justice system would be by nature easier to "buy", or bypass. this is bad news... lose/lose situation... what are all the greenies going to do when most manufacturing goes to Asia and the environment is taken to task ?... "protest"? roflol against who? the pennyless US consumer ? ha ! maybe they will protest against the Indonesian consumer, or the Chinese "Yupie" --more roflol i smell greenie fried a la Pei-king -gggg it is sad that we are lowering the standards, instead of the other way around, but that is what's coming, that is the price of our past arrogance in thinking we could have a "double standard" and get away with it. push the survival mode button Lucrecia, we are going to battle .... Mad Max is just around the corner -gg