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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (37635)	9/1/2003 3:39:46 AM
From: Seeker of Truth	Respond to of 74559

"They prefer to steal." Right you are. Actually it's not only the average person who likes to steal, en masse. I well remember, during the first oil crisis, around 1973, in Canada, price control on oil was instituted. It was favoured by big business(other than the petroleum industry, natch,) as well as by the general public. The result was worsening of the crisis. Non-petroleum big business learned its lesson and has backed off of attacking the oil companies during subsequent oil crises. Whenever you hear the slogan of price control you know that theft is in progress. Currently there is a campaign to reduce "unreasonably high" medicine prices. This, despite the not so brilliant profit performance of the hated big pharmaceutical companies. That's another example of an alliance of most of big business plus the public against one particular industry, like a pack of wolves attacking a lone wolf of another pack.