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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (1941)	1/7/1999 7:50:00 PM
From: Cush	Respond to of 13015

"We made a promise we'd always remember no retreat no surrender like Soldiers in the winter's night with a vow to defend no retreat no surrender." ~ Springsteen ~

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (1941)	1/7/1999 9:33:00 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Respond to of 13015

One should keep in mind that by and large politicians are/were lawyers. By their temperment they are prone to take the credit for the work of others. The typical lawyer/politican is the gal/guy who is always back-slapping and glad-handing people, getting to know folks to learn about ideas and concepts s/he would never come up with on their own, much less produce it. They produce nothing besides words. The production of words, as proven many times throughout the history of mankind, can be "mightier than the sword". A society must be educated in order to identify when the politician is simply producing meaningless words, or hide unethical intent, or words that lead to positive action. Unless, and until such society educates itself and learns to make those differences, we the people are at the mercy of the ones in power. These could be clowns, crooks, or men of action, it really depends on "we the people". "People get the government they deserve." ~ Napoleon. "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." ~ Mencken This phenomenon is prevalent in the stockmarket today. You see that blowhard over there, smugly congratulating himself for buying Cisco Systems and Lucent Communications....he thought routers were for woodworking. True, however in many instances, (as it is in the case of Technical Analysis), one can say that it is irrelevant if Lucent manufactures technologies for the telecommunication industry, woodworking tools, or Dark Suckers. A large segment of the participants of the market, primarily speculators, participate based on charts, exclusively. Under such analysis, what the company does or makes, is irrelevant. The name of the game in the stock market is to make money. "Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself." ~ Ivan F. Boesky ~