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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (189433)	6/1/2004 1:41:58 AM
From: boris_a	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574192

that's what they do best. If a governement is behaving and acting like them and has still so much support, one has to fear that the supporting citizens would do the same: taking as much profit as possible. For me, this Admin is living in the spirit of the late 90ies and the behaviour of corporate execs is their paradigma. As long as the majority of the shareholders (citizens) expect some personal profit (tax cut, low oil prices thanks to Iraq), they dont' mind about option programs and mis-investments. But here we are in politics and a mis-investment in the "War on Terror" has far more serious consequences than all the billions of unpaid "dividends" that for example Intel has sunk in some obscure IT businesses or in "buy back" programs to counterweigh the effect of the dilution by stock options. With those huge deficits (federal, trade) and the failure of the "WOT" (Iraq quagmire, a growing Al-Q threatening oil supplies) I expect a similar rude awakening (but this time without Alan Greenspan). And we dont' want to imagine what the US would be if the Founding Father had been in the same league of personal profit takers. Bush had the audacity to say in a speech that America reluctantly goes into war. Read that too. It's not a lie. He had to do a lot of deception to get America to this war. What he doesn't say: this President loves to go to war. I heard he's the first president greeting like a soldier all the time. Since he was kicked from flying and went sort of AWOL, he compensates and likes to behave like a boy soldier. A sign of fear of inferiority (no wonder) and of a distrubing, increasing militarization of a civilian society.