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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (131624)	3/7/2017 2:27:28 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217518

There's an old saying which applies to people like Saddam Hussein and most survivors of trauma. "Never give power to the junk-yard dog." It's a rather crude way of saying that someone who has been horribly mistreated will naturally mistreat others the same way if they're in a position over others. Likewise this something which makes Germany so nice today. The Nazi philosophy was thoroughly discredited after WW-II. You can still run into the occasional elderly drunk Nazi in Bavaria who lets their mouth slip, but the active disapproval from the Germans around them reminds them to shut their mouth. The people I mentioned in that post are all multi-billionaires and quite unpleasant. The truly wealthy in Israel are also here in Los Angeles. The son of the grocers/gangsters had access to hundreds of millions from his family in Israel and has turned that into billions. His game is buying historic skid row hotels, refurbishing them while the poor tenants continue to pay rent, then kicking them out and refurbishing the rooms, selling them off as condos. But like many, cut out of the same mold, this also includes hiring contractors and not paying them if things go poorly, or making their life so difficult and making it so difficult to collect the money they're owed that they're willing to settle for far less than they agreed upon after they're finished that they settle for far less. I have a colorful Nate Shapell story where he's been stiffing two Irish brothers who were paving contractors who worked on his developments. Nate always had a hugely buxom black woman as his secretary. Tired of being put off, the two brothers showed up at Nate's office and demanded to see him. Although his secretary said he wasn't in, they pushed past her and started searching Nate's office. When they found him hiding in his coat closet, and picked him up off the floor by his collar and forced him to sign a check paying them. Clearly if you know what's what, you never want to work with people like Nate Shapell or the two Irish brothers who were paving contractors - yet it's an amazing feature of life that these unpleasant people find each and work almost exclusively with people like themselves - mostly because no one else will.