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To: sea_urchin who wrote (22909)	4/11/2005 12:41:58 PM
From: philv	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81234

What do you think of this guy, trying to scare people with inflammatory statements like: "An Economy On Thin Ice" "But as things stand, it is more likely than not that it will be financial crises rather than policy foresight that will force the change." "What I am talking about really boils down to the oldest lesson of economic policy: a strong sense of monetary and fiscal discipline." (the guy is obviously delusional) "under the placid surface, there are disturbing trends: huge imbalances, disequilibria, risks -- call them what you will. Altogether the circumstances seem to me as dangerous and intractable as any I can remember, and I can remember quite a lot." The old guy must be doing opium, having a bad trip. What does he know anyway? Besides, we are living in a new paradigm, and he just doesn't get it. washingtonpost.com The writer was chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987.

To: sea_urchin who wrote (22909)	4/12/2005 4:50:20 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81234

Re: Gus > What was left of her was but a soulless, flabby carcass So what? Just like a baby, all she needed was someone to feed her in order that her "carcass" could stay alive. Come on, let's be serious! A baby is a "work in progress", a full-fledged person en devenir (ie, evolving). The human foetus is but the first iteration of a lifelong, cumulative process that ultimately blossoms into a full-blown, if flawed, human being --quite different from a degenerative stasis that boils down to a digestive canal fed at one end, and squeezed at the other.... Re: And indeed, it took thirteen days of total starvation to finally kill (the rest of) her which shows she wasn't completely dead after fifteen years. No, there was nothing left to "kill". Terri Schiavo's soul left her crippled body 15 years ago... Do you realize that, by your definition of death, it would be possible to keep everybody alive... for ever!? Every dying person would just be rushed to the hospital, plunged into some cryogenic box, plugged into a feeder and... Bob's your uncle! Re: You may like to play God but I don't. Well, if that Mr God of yours allowed Terri Schiavo to turn brain-dead in the first place, it surely couldn't hurt for "mere mortals" to take over at that point....