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Re: Break Out the Cristal (trickle-down economics explained with champagne!)
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Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:47:02 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:
So again, America is not God's gift to the world.  Stop your self
cerntralized view and start seeing what's going on in the world around
you--that's what the author was trying to get across.

Because I am a red-blooded american boy; living, breathing, working, and
striving for all that is great and good for my world; and because I am
committed to a larger project which takes the downturns and the upswings
with a grain of salt; because I have a thousand-yard stare through the years
rather than across distance; this:

"Bush fiddles with economy while Baghdad burns"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,922217,00.html

Shades of Nero and Victoria's England (re: imperialism after Albert).  Read
Joyce's "The Dead" and catch a clue.

A true american has his eye on the value of the dollar (since we are denied
gold, alas).  A patriot cares about profitability not just for today, but
for years to come; he does not raid the financial foundations of the company
for a good payout by year's end.  Unless there are golden parachutes for
all, there should be golden parachutes for none.

No "attaboy" today, sorry John. I still have that Cristal headache from
yesterday -- or was it this morning?

Hail Satan!

-- Hop-Frog



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  Re: Break Out the Cristal (trickle-down economics explained with champagne!)
 
(...) Absolute Wow! for the article, Richard. Just to start a different debate, one of a more political nature, and one where I don't have an opinion (yet ;) )... Will, or could, the "American Empire" fall, much akin to the former Soviet Union? (...) (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Break Out the Cristal (trickle-down economics explained with champagne!)
 
(...) What? You think America the Great is the only country that 'produces countless blessings upon the world'? You act as if America is the second coming, John! We, all of us, are equal nations (or at least should be), and the second you start (...) (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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