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   Don to Michael Bulatovich   
   Re: If that was my.....   
   03 Mar 08 07:55:39   
   
   From: one-if-by-land@concord.com   
      
   "Michael Bulatovich"  wrote in message   
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   > Don wrote:   
   >> "Michael Bulatovich"  wrote in message   
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   >>> "Don"  wrote in message   
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   >>>> "Michael Bulatovich"  wrote in message   
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   >>>>>   
   >>>>> "Don"  wrote in message   
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   >>>>>> "Edgar"  wrote in message   
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   >>>>>>> "Kris Krieger"  wrote in message   
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   >>>>>>>> "Don"  wrote in   
   >>>>>>>> news:fq3rmg0168v@news3.newsguy.com:   
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   >>>>>>>>> "Kris Krieger"  wrote in message   
   >>>>>>>>> news:13s91ctdmcvbh17@corp.supernews.com...   
   >>>>>>>> [snip]   
   >>>>>>>>>> You know small business, but the corporate world is as   
   >>>>>>>>>> altogether different animal.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> What you described is a corporeaucracy, and abomination and   
   >>>>>>>>> should be   
   >>>>>>>>> banned.   
   >>>>>>>>> Its best to try to avoid such things entirely.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> The free market works under a different premise based in value   
   >>>>>>>>> judgements, demand and supply.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> I think, tho', that too many poeple do confuse "corporeaucracy"   
   >>>>>>>> (a.k.a.   
   >>>>>>>> capitalism) with "free market".  The thing si that, from what I   
   >>>>>>>> can tell,   
   >>>>>>>> "corporeaucracy" can't proliferate without gov.t assistance in   
   >>>>>>>> the form of   
   >>>>>>>> tax breaks, subsidies, and the bending of certain laws.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> That's why I object to the term "capitalism" - capitalism is   
   >>>>>>>> not the same   
   >>>>>>>> thing as "free market".   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> It is correct I think, that the free market is not hindered in   
   >>>>>>> any way by the government, if we are talking about pure "free   
   >>>>>>> market" but at the same time, it is not controlled by anything   
   >>>>>>> except those things Don mentioned. Thus human dignity, respect,   
   >>>>>>> and morality never come into play at all. Neither does health   
   >>>>>>> and safety.  What value judgment would discard a working yet   
   >>>>>>> unsafe factory that can easily replace that cheap labor, for   
   >>>>>>> something that protects and values human lives, at the expense   
   >>>>>>> of profit? Again I think the answer is somewhere in between.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> I believe most people are mostly moral, that is, concerned about   
   >>>>>> things beyond their fingertips and doing the right thing.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> ROTFLMAO! <...wiping coffee from keyboard...>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Here's one of the exceptions.   
   >>>   
   >>> Do you believe any of the stuff you say? You contradict yourself at   
   >>> every turn. You are now a **liberal**?   
   >>>   
   >>> I thought most people are "sheep" or "animals" to you.   
   >>   
   >> You're full of shit Michael.   
   >> I never said such a thing and you are lying again.   
   >   
   > Don, your denials   
      
   STFU you babbling idiot.   
      
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