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   XPost: seattle.general   
   From: alohacyberian@att.net   
      
   "Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen"  wrote in message   
   news:Xns997E286D620B2revbob@140.99.99.130...   
   > The kindly Rev. overheard "Alohacyberian"    
   > saying on Tue 31 Jul 2007 03:44:21a:   
   >   
   >> That's a pretty sloppy dodge to a simple question.  The corruption   
   >> in the Soviet Union was legion.  Soviet party apparatchiks made   
   >> the Mafia look like altar boys.  KM   
   >   
   > No, it's clear the corporation-huggers (you, for instance?)   
   > desperately want to talk about the long-dead Soviet Union or Venice   
   > under the Medici or the Treaty of Ghent or *any* goddamn thing except   
   > corporate corruption.   
   >   
      
   Venice under the de Medici was a superb example of laissez faire capitalism,   
   thank you very much.  The economics fiasco of the Soviet Union was the most   
   pathetic economic failure the world has ever witnessed.  Yes, there is   
   corporate corruption, but, it is so miniscule only a fanatic would be overly   
   concerned.  Corporate America has created the greatest economic engine in   
   the history of humankind.  Naturally any entity that large is going to have   
   some corruption.  Mature people understand that.  I suggest you buy some   
   shares of Exxon-Mobil, or Johnson and Johnson, or MacDonalds, or Microsoft,   
   or the Vanguard 500 fund.  When the capital gains appear and the dividends   
   start rolling in, maybe you'll be able to see the bright side of   
   corporations creating wealth instead of slavering on about the corporate sky   
   falling.  KM   
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