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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mcg404 who wrote (19010)	9/15/2003 2:39:41 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81226

John > You have such low expectations for government employees you can't expect much good to come from their actions. So why have them at all? Although I, myself, was a government employee for most of my working life, I'm not particularly a socialist or a believer in the state. To me, working for the government offers a choice of employer as well as a particular mix of benefits and disadvantages. In fact, I don't think one is born or has a genetic predisposition to be a state employee any more than one is born to be a capitalist, communist or anything else. In life, one is dealt a few cards, one then picks up a few more along the way and with all of those one attempts to play the best game one can, in the circumstances. > I'm assuming you must mean that he is a well spoken, articulate public speaker. Yes and his talk, without notes, was supported by an excellent visual demo. One had to be impressed. I'm not referring to his factual content or lack of it, rhetoric and distortion of the truth. I'm simply commenting that he was the "man for the job". It's clear, to me any any rate, that he was considered a far more convincing orator than Negroponte, and that's why he was chosen in preference to the ambassador who, by right, should have given the US presentation. > Maybe Colin's tribe hasn't come too far since Emancipation - still slaves Aren't we all, even those who get a paycheck!