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To: TimF who wrote (63609)	1/24/2008 8:50:07 AM
From: J.B.C.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Bravo, there are hundred of thousands honest competent business people, those types like to pick out the relatively few are corrupt as their example that all businesses and their workers must be bad.

To: TimF who wrote (63609)	1/24/2008 12:35:18 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Comment by a Wall Street trader on the Society General fraud case: "Kristin, too bad he didn't work in America. For racking up a $7 billion loss, he could have been paid at least $150 million to leave. "

To: TimF who wrote (63609)	1/24/2008 12:41:43 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Their may be many examples of rewarded incompetence in finance, but not nearly so many as their are in government. Bull. Etrade is trading at $3 and change.....down from $23. Was the former CEO, Caplan, fired for trashing the company and its stock? Hell no. He got $10 million to leave. The list goes on and on.....the most corrupt people in the US are in corporate America.....and you keep defending their criminal activity. What does that say about you and the two people who recommended your post? For all the examples you may find and list, it doesn't change the fact that the US is and has been more a place for "growth-driven, market-based capitalists" than Europe as a whole. While in Europe the nations that tax, spend, and regulate more, are growing slower than their less interventionist neighbors. Well, you know what, Tim, the bloom is off the rose. The subprime debacle in which several foreign banks were snookered into buying makes the US look third world. It might account for why the US is becoming less and less a destination for global investment dollars. You don't like this fact, but you have no good counterargument on this scale, so you find a person or group of people who did a bad job and got a ton of money for it, as if that was some refutation. You are starting to get desperate Tim. By every metric you have been proven wrong so all you have to rely on is your stump speech and false accusations. There is something rotten and it ain't in Denmark. Deal with it!