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To: robnhood who wrote (9866)	5/25/1999 11:00:00 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

<<Quite possibly, however that is unlikely to happen... Most people are not so besiged with greed... You have pointed out the basic flaw--- Profit for the company is the driving factor for the CEO's decisions, and not the welfare of the people corporations are here to serve>> You havent read up on your Adams rr, profit motive is precisely the driving factor that allows disinterested parties to serve each other's interests. When was the last time you saw empty shelves in a grocery store rr? When was the last time you saw an empty shopping mall? No central planning can accomplish that, and history proves me right. As to most people not being so "besiged" with greed, please take note of the United Auto Workers. Some of the absolutely best paid blue collar workers in the world, some of the best benefits, one of the best working environments, and yet they continue, to their own detriment to strike for even more and more money and more benefits. This can be repeated ad nauseaum for a number of unionized groups, UPS being another example. I dont know about you, but I dont make $35 an hour, full benefits, and paid vacations. Give me a job with GM, hell I'll take sub-union wages. <<50 to 60k barrels of oil spilled a day in the sUDAN - zilch jobs or payments to the people who live on top of the oil>> Cant say anything about that, cuz I dont know anything about it. Maybe someone else will comment. <<Today I read on my newswire about some lawsuit aginst texaco or some oil company being taken over by a group in the rain forest . It was a warning to the takeover company that they were not about to drop their suit claiming millions in environmental destruction from the oil companies exploitation of the rain forest....>> Yes, I know the story. They are suing to prevent development of oil finds on their territory, the rights of which were bought by those companies. I didnt read anything about environmental destruction. But it is besides the point, as the US does not have any jurisdiction over South America, and so is moot. However I dont think there is much point drawing up a list of environmental legislation in the US, because it would probably be a post unto itself. Clean air, clean water, emissions regulations, the banning of entire chemicals altogether such as DDT, etc etc. This legislation has very real and tangible corporate, and hence social, costs.