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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (36259)	7/18/2003 7:27:08 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Sports stadiums get subsidized on the back of the taxpayer. One useful example of subsidies are the BMW palnt in South Carolina and the Mercedes plant in Alabama. Both have lead to synergies and more support industry locating in the area, and in improving labor training. Success stories like this tend to be rare.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (36259)	7/19/2003 3:52:42 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Ray, it's funny how different [or disparate to use the fashionable but incorrect word] people see the same things but come to different [or disparate] conclusions. You see corporations as malevolent anti-democratic forces and I see creative people being ripped off by the drooling mob-rule of winner takes all electioneering and vote buying. I see Irwin Jacobs spending a great chunk of his life delivering magical CDMA2000 phragmented photons to the benighted mob, using my lifetime's work and savings and you see malevolence and anti-democracy. Maybe you haven't checked their financial reports, but they [and me too] pay large proportions of the money they receive to governments. That seems to me to be enough of a contribution to the very communities which make their existence possible. While I wouldn't say that things are perfect, gross negligence isn't really the right description for their efforts. Anyway, gross negligence will primarily cost me as the supplying capitalist, so you don't need to worry on my behalf for me as I spend quite a lot of time worrying for me already and keeping a close eye on what they are doing with my hard-earned and frugally saved money. Not only do QUALCOMM and I provide big cash inputs to your wonderful mob-ruled governments which made our business possible, we also sell amazing cyberphone devices which provide an enormous consumer surplus to those who buy them. Also, our employees, who otherwise would be scratching in the forests for some GSM bugs to eat and fighting cannibalistic wars, earn large amounts of money and pay half of it to said mob-ruled governments. It's funny that the ignorant masses have little clue on what makes the whole thing work and that they cheerfully kill the goose which lays the golden eggs [all too often]. Nature works very slowly, but it does work. The human DNA chain took a billion years to build and the job isn't finished yet [obviously]. On water privatisation, unfortunately, governments are messing that up too. They don't know how to run water supplies and they don't know how to sell them either. We've had $100 million poured down the drain with construction of an unnecessary pipeline from the Waikato River. All they had to do was price existing supplies correctly and we could have deferred construction for years. Until 10 years ago, we didn't even have a water meter - that's how useless the water supply authorities are. Mqurice PS: I think people use the word disparate because it makes them look intelligent and literate and different from others [or disparate from them, or desperate anyway].