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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (19475)	12/11/2003 5:35:31 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793672

Every generation builds its own country. Our ancestors broke their backs to build this country Buffet should keep his mind on business and not meddle in government policy. In policy matters he's no smarter than you or me.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (19475)	12/11/2003 7:04:50 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793672

They may be "the best CEO's in the history of the world"...and note you only mentioned two. Is there only two? If so, then the rest of us in the world had better get busy building our own business, using our own funds to build and grow the business, and do what these guys did....work 20 hours a day/7 days a week for YEARS to grow the company. Those folks who criticize are free to do so, but unless they roll up their sleeves, and get on with their life trying to improve it, all they will accomplish is maintaining their situation today, while continually carping about it. Remember the old adage: God helps those who help themselves.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (19475)	12/11/2003 8:08:49 PM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793672

Well, there's also the guy - can't remember his name - who owns the Polartec factory in MA. He's fought back from fire and bankruptcy to keep his firm going and everyone employed. Sadly, however, he probably won't be able to keep it from going under - too much cheap competition. Some changes are just plain out of anyone's control, and the only person who's going to take care of you is you. That's why a lot of people are starting small businesses, often using the Internet. I've watched the changes in AT&T and its various spinoffs from 1987 (when I started at Bell Labs) to now. I saw it change from a well-paying, secure, intellectually stimulating environment to a driven, insecure place where people don't really want to be but the pay and benefits are still good so they'll stay til retirement or layoff. IMO Rich McGinn, CEO of Lucent (the old Western Electric/Network Systems piece of AT&T) was one of those CEOs with "over-inflated egos and dismal business skills", but what could you expect? The guy spent 20 years in a monopoly environment and all of a sudden had to create a lean, mean competitive machine? He didn't know how. You could see it coming, though rapidity of Lucent's fall did surprise me.