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To: LindyBill who wrote (33178)	3/6/2004 10:46:22 AM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 794490

"The employee pays the rest." exactly and thats why wage stagnation continues along with lack of job creation. In the end the dynamism of the US economy will overwhelm the above but maybe not in time to help bush. In 1929, a depression arose that lasted until WW2. ONce in a depression it is almost too late to push out of it. Bush saw a depression coming after 9/11 topped off the bubble bust and there was a war as well. And he pulled it off. What a shame if he loses reelection because jobs came too late to help him. It is my worst nightmare as newly racist, anti free-trade democrats rail at indians and chinese for stealing our jobs. Thanks John Edwards for adopting primitive pat buchananism. Mike

To: LindyBill who wrote (33178)	3/6/2004 10:47:09 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 794490

No good deed goes unpunished. Take Down a Website, Go to Jail This article reports the case of Patrick Arthur Richard, who created a web site for his local sheriff’s department. Big mistake. Richard apparently set up the site for free, but after 33 months decided that he wanted to be paid for it. When he asked for $300,000, which he claims was a negotiable opening bid, he was flatly refused, so he did what any webhost would have done—he took down the site. The Macomb Sheriff’s department responded by seizing his computers and throwing him in jail. “This is a case of someone trying to get rich quick,” said Eric Kaiser, chief trial attorney for the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office. “He was given the privilege of carrying the banner of the Macomb County Sheriff’s department and he tried to take advantage of it.” […] “He built up the site so that we would rely on it so much and would pay him,” Hackel said. “(But) that content belongs to all of us.” I think this guy was an idiot to give them anything for free in the first place, though I doubt he imagined that if he didn’t continue to provide this service for free forever, he would be thrown in jail. Richard, who is free on a $5,000 personal bond, faces a preliminary examination today in 41B District Court in Mount Clemens on charges of extortion, using a computer to commit a crime, larceny by conversion and obstruction of justice. The most serious charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. reason.com