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To: MSI who wrote (21784)	12/27/2003 3:20:02 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793682

Yes, that's the symptom of the problem. Then the underlying problem is corruption. That's a problem I can understand your getting all exercised about. If the problem is corruption, then it seems to me more powerful and effective to frame the issue that way. Taking the multinational tack is diverting. It saps the energy from your issue. Oppositions just love it when folks do that. It's important to focus on problems, not symptoms, both when trying to solve them and when arguing them. Re profit haters, which is where we started, when I said that there are profit haters out there, I wasn't lumping you in with them, just stating that they exist. They do exist. I don't know how many time I've seen man on the street interviews where people complain that companies are making all this money but pay poor wages. And politicians playing to that sense of unfairness. There isn't anything inherently unfair about it. Wages are determined by a willing employer and a willing employee. To suggest that there's something wrong with that won't fly with any but true believers in the responsibility of government to somehow make life fair.