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To: Joan Osland Graffius who wrote (100146)	1/23/2004 12:47:56 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Joan Any thoughts on the EMRG and AMD news? biz.yahoo.com tia zeus

To: Joan Osland Graffius who wrote (100146)	1/23/2004 1:39:23 PM
From: benwood	Respond to of 132070

Joan, I have gotten that way, too. I do pay attention, but much of the time I must change the channel or radio station because it has gotten so out of hand and it is too hard to listen to the wolves guarding the sheep. I have come to believe that a drug keeps American from waking up, and that drug is the seemingly limitless credit card and other lines of credit. With the exponential growth of credit, there has been no day of reckoning and so no reason for most to comprehend anything's wrong with the system. My brother & his wife bought a 165k house in the Seattle area 13 years ago; 4 years ago they bought a 290k house; three months ago they bought a 480k house, and they are trying to sell the last one... Speaking of taxes! I will be paying perhaps $500 a year for the next 20 years to pay for this short line monorail in Seattle. When they build it, the fare will be in addition to and higher than the bus fare, and it won't go to or from where most Seattlites live. Yet for the cost, they could give just about everybody in the county free bus passes for life. These sorts of choices are why I think there will be an exodus from the big cities when boomers retire -- the tax load to support the enormous infractructure will be too much to bear.

To: Joan Osland Graffius who wrote (100146)	1/26/2004 12:08:36 AM
From: Tom M	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Hi Joan, I agree on the "hopeless" feeling, but I'm still trying to work on it & wait for the Atlas Shrugged scenario to play out -ng. I still try to explain what I see vs what's in the media to anyone who'll listen. We have the charts of Japan to point to for recent history... Gov't we can vote out, then we just have to vote another govbot in to take their place, reminds me of a scene in the second Matrix where they just keep coming... Increased bank fees & nasty credit card amendments have been in my mail lately too. I had to write a letter to my credit card company to opt out of a new change where they could increase the APR to 24.99% if a "minimum" payment was missed, which of course could happen quite accidentally if your check to pay the balance in full was late a day. Now regarding the tax increases we've been seeing everywhere, what's the point of having a fiat currency that taxes its citizens into bankruptcy when by definition of a fiat currency the gov't doesn't need a single tax dollar from anyone anymore? They've certainly printed enough the last decade... Broke Sheep = Controlable Sheep? regards, Tom