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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (63601)	1/23/2008 7:35:46 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

His January 11, 2008 New York Times column (”The Comeback Continent“; HT Tom Maguire via Instapundit) is yet another in a seemingly endless series of attempts by economic statists to convince people in the US that we need to be more like Europe — specifically Western Europe — and less like the growth-driven, market-based capitalists that we still largely are. Hmmmm.....growth-driven, market based capitalists........from where I am sitting its more like greed driven, incompent managers of capital: Top WaMu execs rake in $1.6 million seattlepi.nwsource.com This is just one example of a corporation given its managers liberal bonuses as they ran the business into the ground, resulting in a loss in the company's latest quarter, a foregoing of its dividend, and its stock plummeting from $45 to $13: clearstation.etrade.com Increasingly, Tim, I see you completely out of touch with the people of this country, having aligned yourself with some very questionable people.