Wow! are you ever snowed....capitalism gone wild is the current anthem.
you must be in that upper 10%?

We are moving to a 2 class system rapidly!

get real man.
If you are not a 10 percenter...you are really doomed with such meta
physics and epistemologies.

There are plenty of folks out there that have done "the right thing," and
are loosing everything that they have due to our jobs being shipped out!


...that is if you care to look deeper than the Republican stats...

What has happened to good American Brotherhood, morals and ethics?
Who cares? right?
Ah never mind, you must be one of the literalist; you will likely not
understand the spirit of the land and of the law...
Rick


At 04:16 PM 2/28/2004, George Cassell wrote:
>I don't recall where, in the Constitution of the United States, its said
>that any of us were to be guaranteed anything, other than the right to life,
>liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  And the right to happiness, itself,
>was not guaranteed either -- only the pursuit thereof.
>
>We are not guaranteed jobs or salaries.  And no company doing business in
>the United States, is mandated to create or sustain jobs for any of us.
>Their obligation is to provide whatever products or services they do
>provide, and create a profit for their owners.
>
>If you decided to go into business for yourself, you would be doing so to
>create personal wealth; not to create  jobs for others, simply to provide
>them with paychecks, whether or not they deserve that money.  That is what
>the communist program was all about, and why it has been abandoned, except
>for Cuba and North Korea, and we all know what a dismal failure they are.
>How many of us would like to trade places with them?
>
>If there is a divide between the have's and have's not, then it is incumbent
>upon those who have not to improve their own lot in life, as have the
>have's.  We all have the same opportunity to a decent education in our
>tax-supported schools, right through high school.  Thereafter, one can
>attend college, if one so desires, by working one's way through, getting a
>scholarship, grant, student loan, or whatever it takes to put one's self
>through school.  In so doing, one prepares himself for the work force, able
>to compete in life, and not simply being dragged along by the blood, sweat
>and tears of others.
>
>Yes, there are those of us who are "disadvantaged."  But, by joining
>together, we, too, can provide for ourselves, utilizing the talents and
>abilities of others in our group, while providing our own abilities as well,
>thus making the sum of the whole greater than the individual parts.
>
>There is too much whining going on in America, and not enough of the
>personal responsibility that made America great in the first place.  As John
>F. Kennedy once said, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what
>you can do for your country."  Those words are as true today, as the day
>they were first spoken in January of 1961.
>
>-- George
>
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steve Hoad" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 4:09 AM
>Subject: Re: What goes around
>
>
>posting from Windsor Maine;
>Steve Hoad
>
>
>Good points in this article cover a real fact,
>Currently in America the gap between rich and poor is continually widening.
>The top ten percent of our country's incomes are averaging about $900,000
>(nine hundred thousand) and the bottom 20 percent are at about $8600 (eight
>thousand six hundred.
>
>That's the rub,
>when this wheel of import/export/export/import continues around the richest
>come out on top and the poorest get rolled over.
>
>This definitely requires a public policy shift! at the Federal level so our
>real "working class" can still exist.  Not everybody can invent something,
>not everybody wants to do a "think" job, and many don't have the capacity to
>do so.
>
>Steve, (off the soapbox now) Hoad
>from a state where the poverty is apparent,
>Maine
>
>
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