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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (128895)	1/23/2017 6:40:02 PM
From: dvdw©	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217847

What do you think about Foxcon making a 7 billion investment in USA? Also Alibaba promise of a million jobs? (bezoz vas MA…..odds on favorite?) Capital flight needs plausible deniability….dinner is served. Seems like both sides are on the same page…and will have their respective reasons for doing so; follow the money always makes great sense. Highly recommend doing just that.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (128895)	1/23/2017 9:19:31 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 217847

We're extremely fortunate that oil companies, home builders and other firms aren't run by political appointees - and we're extremely lucky the voting public don't get a say whether the "bludger employees" who work for these private companies can be purged. This level of stupidity would quickly bring the economy to a halt. Rick Perry with his degree in animal husbandry managing the nation's nuclear weapons program as Energy Secretary is bizarre. If he also purged the Civil Service employees under him, the ones who actually run the place, that would be absolutely catastrophic. The only bludger in this scenario is political appointee Secretary Rick Perry. As a person who during my many careers has frequently interacted with the Department of Interior, the Navy and the FDA, my conclusion is these organizations could easily run without their top administrators - but they'd completely fall apart if you terminated the long-service employees who actually keep the place running. I strongly suspect people who don't feel the same way have never needed to work with the Federal government. I'm sure we all recall President George W. Bush telling his political appointee Michael D. Brown “Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job" in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Too bad for Brownie he had previously purged the FEMA employees who knew how to run the place. So he hired oil service contractor Halliburton to run the rescue efforts. As a consequence he spent $100 million purchasing ice which was never delivered to New Orleans - and that just one tiny screw-up in a multi-billion Dollar wastrel fest. It would probably sound just as emotionally satisfying to you to hear oil companies have fired 70% of the bludgers who works at each refinery "to make them more efficient". It might be a good move if you're no longer interested in purchasing gasoline and other oil products. But each refinery could no longer operate.