From: one-if-by-land@concord.com   
      
   "Edgar"  wrote in message   
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   > "Don"  wrote in message   
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   >> "Warm Worm"  wrote in message   
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   >>> Edgar wrote:   
   >>>> "Don"  wrote in message   
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   >>>>> The word *success* has been redfined:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> 1) Spend hundreds of millions of dollars putting a *spy satellite*   
   >>>>> that doesn't work into outer space   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> 2) Spend tens of millions more shooting it down so that it (hopefully)   
   >>>>> doesn't kill too many people and poison the earth when it crashes   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> 3) Use the debacle to make your case for even more Pentagon funding   
   >>>>> for a bigger and better satellite that you promise will work this   
   >>>>> time.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> On the other hand, in the private sector, the ONLY measure of success   
   >>>> is dollars and cents, no matter how you make it, no matter what gets   
   >>>> destroyed, no matter how many people are killed.  One thing is for   
   >>>> sure, the right answer hasn't been found yet, certainly not by   
   >>>> governments, certainly not by the free market.   
   >>>   
   >>> Butchya see, Edgar, that done matter none t' Don, cause he's ridin' inta   
   >>> town on his one-trick pony. A-heh.   
   >>   
   >> Are you still crying Richard?   
   >> Go clean yourself up man, and get on with it already.   
   >> Jayziss.....   
   >> BTW: Each of us is part of the free market, whether you like it or not.   
   >> Unless you live in a cave in Utah of course and eat snails and conifer   
   >> needles.   
   >> So get over yourself already and at least show some semblence of honesty   
   >> and knowledge.   
   >>   
   >   
   > So what the hell is your point?   
      
   For you, apparently, there is no point.   
   You ate food today, you purchased it in the free market.   
   You valued the food more than the money in your pocket.   
   The food vendor valued the money in your pocket more than he valued the   
   food.   
   Thats how it works.   
      
   That each and every one of us is affected   
   > by each and everyone else?   
      
   No.   
   That each of us gets to pick and choose whom we wish to associate with, free   
   of coercion, thats the free market.   
      
   No, that can't be it, you would never try and   
   > make that point Mr. Individual now would you.   
      
   Intelligent individuals create market deals all day long and benefit from it   
   and better it.   
   Herd members fail to recognize such things and cling desperately to false   
   *protectionism*.   
      
   Check this out here's some   
   > more truth, each and every one of us is a part of this government too,   
      
   Again, you have it exactly backwards Edgar, you're establishing a pattern   
   here.   
   While herd members easily admit they have been snookered into believing they   
   benefit from a monopoly on force they can provide no legitimate example of   
   any benefit.   
      
      
   so   
   > please don't get over yourself and fucking do something about it instead   
   > of complaining all the time.   
      
   I am constantly making efforts to expand the free market and little by   
   little chip away at the monopoly on force.   
   Your last sentence, as well as most of your posts these days, is a complaint   
   about your assumption of someone else complaining.   
   Kinda funny.   
      
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