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To: CrazyPete who wrote (24459)	7/28/2006 10:38:05 AM
From: bruces2006	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78796

I follow you...no problem there, but the stability of a company is founded in how over extended its financials are. Ratings are nice when you can get them, and certainly interest and debt is not the only factors involved, just the issues that you guys selected to respond to. The fact of the matter is, financials cover a broad area, and when one part of it seems to be going haywire, it may serve as a warning of the pending future. GE may be good for it, but with this interest/debt issue and a new man at the top, it should prompt one to watch the next qtr to a year...every kingdom doth fall sooner or later, nothing is perfect, not even GE. For instance, cost of sales nearly doubled since the previous qtr while EBITDA is flat to down, operating margin is down and revenue is flat to down. Where is the EPS for this company? And cash flow is a wild rollercoaster from one qtr to the next. I do like what you said about GE Capital, but what I don't understand is how if they make good money as interest income, why is GE interest going up and not down? But enough of this...its obvious that you are sold on a name and not the actual financials.