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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 1king who wrote (4692)	4/23/2005 6:14:42 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37817

Oh sure, there is a duty of responsibility on the part of the shareholder or voter to choose our management well ... it's just that in the course of that we need to make value judgments in evaluating them, thusly it comes up that the bad ones are sometimes either crooks or morons, one or the other, and unsuitable for our purpose Easier with companies of course, as you can just sell the shares and buy into another, while in politics you have to wait till the next election ... yes, i hear you about press releases, but companies shoot themselves in the foot with this approach, to a certain extent imho, when they sound over-hypey they start looking crooked ... a certain loudly-pumped moly stock comes to mind, but there have been many ... it really pisses me off when a company i like otherwise puts out too promotional of a release, or skips relevant detail that appears negative Democracy is a lot of work for the supposedly self-governing citizens, i don't think we do it well, overall, i certainly don't myself, too busy with other stuff, or just find other stuff more interesting a lot, it's bad, and there are worse than me around, some don't even bother to vote, ignorantly or otherwise .... apathy is a major canadian problem, there never comes a crisis over it though, no one seems to care.