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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (56877)	3/26/2006 12:32:50 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. Honore de Balzac - 1841 Perhaps America never was the great bastion of freedom. Perhaps you see things more clearly now.

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (56877)	3/26/2006 1:40:39 PM
From: Mike Johnston	Respond to of 110194

as for the robber barons in the USA, they are mostly well named Rockefeller used predatory pricing Kennedy used gun running and bootlegging Clintonites used gold leasing to Wall Streeters (see Rubin) Bushys use military industrial contracts (see Carlisle) Halliburton uses no-bid contracts and basic theft etc etc etc, ugh ugh ugh Add Goldman Sachs to the list. Isn't it puzzling that GS always seems to clean up during certain market "events" like elimination of the long bond fiasco or a $80 million windfall on a day of a surprise 50 basis point rate cut to 1%, when the overwhelming consensus was for a 25.

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (56877)	3/26/2006 5:34:55 PM
From: glenn_a	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

"V for Vendetta" - an amazing movie. Still can't quite believe it made it to celluloid. The comic book novel is something too. Alan Moore is a frickin' genius. Best of luck on your current difficulties Jim. glenn

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (56877)	3/27/2006 5:46:55 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

certain court decisions I am upset with many of those too - most recently debbie lafavre proving again and again lady justice is not blind as she should be in a society of equal citizens. Lets face it, there are so many different people wanting to live in different borg hives and to try and keep them all together under one group mind - just not possible. which lead me to conclude the USA is no longer a bastion of freedom You are the statician - there are 300 million people in this country - is 50 senators and 450 or so house members a good sample size to represent 300 million? This was romes problem - gubbment couldn't adapt fast enough to its people. Can so few really have thier thumb on the heartbeat of so many and decisions that are best for all? I doubt it. Even if they have a pretty big brain and a big mouth to match - the few people they talk to around their small area is a ton of info to remember, store, and make deicisions on. I once saw a special on usufruct societies - human brains have evolved to store maybe 2K faces at MOST. If the most a senators brain can hold is 2000 faces and thier needs - we have really screwed up in how we have structured our gubbment and it needs to be fixed. Some cities have several million population - is 1 mayor and a few councilmen a good sample size to represent a few million? Its been a long time since stat class but I don't think so. However Elroy reminds me - it was during the time of darth vader and darth sidious in Rome that their society was most prosperous. El Mat says democracy is not good enough - we need dictators - so why does he bitch about king george and the 5 GOOD emporers that may follow him?