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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (25272)	11/15/2007 5:02:36 AM
From: zamboz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217844

A country treats people as serfs, companies treat shareholders as owners Maurice, you must have worked for some really good companies. I would say that such companies are the exception in America. Many try to achieve that goal but are under intense pressure from competition. I think American workers are now working the longest hours.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (25272)	11/15/2007 7:11:53 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217844

The Decline of Empire and the raise of the next chimp and the DNA cannot do anything about it :-) The Decline of Empire The Roman Empire in the West lasted a total of 422 years. The Roman Empire in the East lasted a total of 1,058 years. The Holy Roman Empire lasted from 800, when Charlemagne was crowned emperor of the Romans, until Napoleon ended it in 1806. The “average” Roman empire therefore lasted 829 years. The average Near Eastern empire (including the Assyrian, Abassid, and Ottoman) lasted a little more than 400 years; the average Egyptian and East European empires around 350 years; the average Chinese empire (subdividing by the principal dynasties) ruled for more than three centuries. The various Indian, Persian, and West European empires generally survived for between 200 and 300 years. After the sack of Constantinople, the longest-lived empire was clearly the Ottoman at 469 years. The East European empires of the Habsburgs and the Romanovs each existed for more than three centuries. The Mughals ruled a substantial part of what is now India for 235 years. Of an almost identical duration was the reign of the Safavids in Persia. The British, Dutch, French, and Spanish empires can all be said to have endured for roughly 300 years. The life span of the Portuguese empire was closer to 500. The empires created in the 20th century, by contrast, were comparatively short. The Bolsheviks’ Soviet Union (1922–91) lasted less than 70 years. Japan’s colonial empire lasted barely 50 years. Technically, the Third Reich lasted 12 years; as an empire in the true sense of the word it lasted barely half that time. Leaving aside American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, which remain American dependencies, U.S. interventions abroad have typically been brief. During the course of the 20th century, the United States occupied Panama for 74 years, the Philippines for 48, Palau for 47, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands for 39, Haiti for 19, and the Dominican Republic for 8. The formal postwar occupations of West Germany and Japan continued for, respectively, 10 and 7 years, though U.S. forces still remain in those countries, as well as in South Korea. Troops were also deployed in large numbers in South Vietnam from 1965, though by 1973 they were gone. In 1920, when it successfully quelled a major Iraqi insurgency, Britain had one soldier in Iraq for every 23 locals. Today, the United States has just one soldier for every 210 Iraqis. It took less than 18 months for a majority of American voters to start telling pollsters at Gallup that they regarded the invasion of Iraq as a mistake. Comparable levels of disillusionment with the Vietnam War did not set in until August 1968, three years after U.S. forces had arrived en masse, by which time the total number of Americans killed in action was approaching 30,000.