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Subject: CBSNews.com News Alert!
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 09:33:39 -0500
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Former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers indicted on federal charges stemming from
the multi-billion dollar accounting fraud at telecommunications giant,
government official says.
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9:39:52 AM ET - 3/2/2004
And there you have it!
Rick
At 05:54 PM 3/1/2004, Steve Hoad wrote:
>posting from Orono Maine;
>Steve Hoad
>
>
>Hi Dan and All!
>
>In your last message, Dan, you made the following statement,
>"My main point was that over the years, unemployment has remained
>relatively constant but the number of people in the US has grown and the
>types of jobs have changed. That can only mean that there are more jobs
>than there were thirty years ago and many people have made the
>transition
>from the previous types of jobs to the new jobs."
>And, my main point is that the "new types of jobs" really are not as good as
>the old ones. Poverty is increasing while unemployment stays stable, people
>are having to work more than one job and more hours per week and poverty is
>still increasing.
>
>We've got to look at our system in relation to the world system and make
>sure to "promote the general welfare" of the folks in our country.
>
>Corporate reform and tighter controls are two suggestions many have
>proposed. I look more toward moving the system toward a place where
>corporations do not have individual rights and personal responsibility of
>executives begins to be considered once again.
>
>In the 1890s and before, there were railroad and steel tycoons who really
>ruled our country. We must look at that history and remember so we don't
>have the same sorts of things happening again. Many poor people were killed
>in strikes and labor strife because tycoons thought they were right.
>
>Steve Hoad
>
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