Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (6307)	12/7/2005 12:00:59 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542169

<iIsn't that what it's all about? Like I said, it would not have occurred to me that that's what it's about. I react that way to Home Depot or McDonald's, entities designed to provide products and services to individuals. You give money and expect value in return. These entities are collectively known as businesses. It's what they're about. If you don't get good value from them, you take your business elsewhere. If they won't let you take your business elsewhere, that's extortion. Perhaps that's where Tim got the extortion notion. <g> The government model and the business model are different, seems to me. Applying one to the other seems weird to me.