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To: LindyBill who wrote (20425)	12/18/2003 11:29:59 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793689

Corp profits are wonderful, my friend. Personally, I enjoy them immensely. And reducing taxes is great. I never met a tax reduction I didn't like. Are you really so Socialist that you think there is something wrong with Corp profits? The problem arrives when the playing field is owned and operated by insiders, in cahoots with bribed referees in gov't, who incrementally form a criminal enterprise, violating laws, overturning the Constitution, and, if it continues, will form a perfect fascist state. When corporate insiders can write and control gov't legislation to their benefit by buying off spineless legislators, you inevitably end up with a very strange sort of "capitalism", that is actually strong socialism, stealing from the majority and granting to the minority. Re: employment, you don't read my posts very well. I stated on multiple occasions I would be extremely happy to see employment increase for whatever reason, along with demand, and through increased demand, wages. Instead the data I see is a race to the bottom, where the only light at the end of the tunnel is worldwide wage standards increasing, sometime in 2075. I'd love to see terrorism back to pre-Bush levels, for whatever reason. I see the trend going in the opposite direction, and accelerating as far as the eye can see due to Bush policies. The Gov't does NOT stay "out of the way" of the economy. Most of the recent growth is gov't pump-priming, and most of that is via terrorist-wars into the pockets of contractors, with hundreds of millions skimmed into the pockets of sold-out political hacks. We're priming with $1/2 trillion in hot checks this year, and hope for a $1 trillion in TOTAL corporate profits, for everything, not just the military. The way for Gov't to stay out of the way, is to withdraw to less than the 40% of the GDP, get out of areas Eisenhower warned about that create giant parasites in Washington DC, keep the roads open, a standing army that protects Americans instead of working for anti-American profiteers, and arbitrate disputes, instead of being manipulated into bipartisan incumbancy. Our entire Constitution is being Gerrymandered for the exclusive protection of a class of extremely pernicious parasites, feeding on American blood.