Buddy, won't you walk that line?

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>The reason why
>Russia has completely gone down the tubes because of capitalism is
>because their government was corrupt from the beginning and it
>continues to be corrupt. Capatilism in the United States is not
>perfect, it is actually far from it, but it works.

   It's not exactly free-market capitalism either. It's socialistic in
nature, but only to the privelleged few ( mostly Fortune 500, mega
corporations) It there was a real free market here, I may not be so wary of
capitalism.




>If you look at the trust busting days of
>Teddy Roosevelt and Wilson you could see that the government and the
>American people would not allow monopolies to occur. That is why the
>Standard Oil Trust, and many others, did not last.

  Let's thank God that the dissolution of the Standard Oil monoopoly was
only temporary. I can sleep much better now that its back in place with the
Exxon/Mobil merger of the past year.


                          Robert Morris
                   winboog@gis.net

now playing-Taj Mahal, Recycling the Blues

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