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To: Moominoid who wrote (65913)	7/4/2005 10:33:40 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Martha Stewart lied, I think she got off too easy, I would have opted for stripping her from ever running a company again and massive fines. My nieces use to try to cook like her and look up to her - what a pathetic role model. All that money and she still had to cheat. Greed and Fear - the 2 worst human emotions. Now this scrushy guy getting away too - and may go back and run healthsouth - this is a bad way to run corporate america. Some guys at IBM embezzled 7 million one year, got caught, one of them was connected to gerstner somehow so no criminal charges - that was BS. It never made the news of course - many things there didn't - things that should have - but all these people I see pouring over the retail news that has been so filtered and diluted and packaged - its funny - hehe. I really think most people that don't work in the upper levels of power are very naive to what is really going on - I mean sure they all suspect there is some subterfuge - but from what I found at that fortune 5 company - it was far worse than your wildest dreams. It taught me how to learn to laugh while the titanic sinks - hehe. As for the big conspiracy - when I hear all these mutual fund companies and brokerage houses all involved in the crimes and I know things are probably much worse than they found or reported on - I think Phil maybe has a good handle on things. He owned the largest land holding company in the USA - he is a VERY wealthy individual if that is true and certainly had a lot of connections. He set his daughter up to be a big real estate person in colorado - probably managing a lot of his lands. He had other large real estate guys like don trump on his show that he seemed to be chummy with from 20 years back. Slagle tells you he paints a good broad stroke - you don't believe this though - I wouldn't have either until I saw first hand some of the BS I did in the corporate world. As bad as that is, what I saw with gingrich and georgia politics and lawyers was FAR WORSE. I am amazed the amount of people that just buy into that ideaology that is so destructive long term. But he could be a scam artist like so many others, probably is, selling seminars - that is definitely a red flag in my book. How many seminars do you see warren buffet or soros or the trump giving for 50 bucks a seat at the local holiday inn? And that he was a big infomercial guy - I just don't see how someone who owned the largest land holdings in the USA has time to hold a 50 dollar a seat seminar in tampa - it just doesn't add up.