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BAR[_2_]

wrote:
On May 15, 10:24 am, HK wrote:
Frogwatch wrote:
On May 15, 8:50 am, HK wrote:
Richard Casady wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 17:11:38 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
wrote:
The automatic reaper invented by McKormick greatly increased the
yields from farms.
Of course it makes the grain grow better, just knowing what lies
ahead.
Casady
Amazing the twists and turns posts here take... :)
The point is that it is one thing to be "just wrong" and another to be
as willfully ignorant as HK is. Every day you should wake up and
thank God for producing the "greedy capitalists" who have made your
life possible.
Bull****. Capitalism has its place, but the sort of "greedy capitalism"
since the 1980s does not. I'm as much for businesses making reasonable
profits as anyone else, but rapacious capitalism? No. That's the sort of
capitalism that brings us the Love Canal, Enron, George W. Bush, the
failure of our economic system, et cetera.

Are you going to disgorge the unreasonable profits from WorldCom that
enabled you to purchase your infamous 36' Zimmerman like Lobsta' boat?
Didn't Bernie Ebbers go to jail due to his obscene profits from WorldCom?

Capitalism is the only economic system that empowers the little guy to
become the big guy.

Hey...shouldn't you be out building or repairing something else that
will fall apart under you? Or planning to cross the Gulf of Mexico on a
surfboard you built from leftover orange crates with a sail made of
recycled green trashbags?

Didn't that "boat" make it to Hawaii already?