Re: shuttle disaster
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 09:22:33AM -0600, DvB wrote:
> Nathan E Norman <nnorman@incanus.net> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:34:51PM -0600, DvB wrote:
> > > "James Buchanan" <jamesbuch@iprimus.com.au> writes:
> > >
> > > > Famine victims OK, but nobody has mentioned the people living in
> > > > poverty in America. Boost welfare, more education funding, subsidise
> > > > pay rises for the lowest paid workers... ooops, America's budget all
> > > > gone ;-)
> > > >
> > >
> > > <sarcasm>
> > > Of course! If we spent that much, people with enough money to have
> > > significant amounts of it in taxable stock accounts wouldn't be able to
> > > keep it all!
> > > </sarcasm>
> >
> > Yeah, after all it's not their money .. they just worked hard to earn
> > it.
> >
>
> You don't "work hard" for stock dividends. You just put your money in
> stocks and they come all by themselves... although I guess I did word
> that a little strangely.
Did the stocks buy themselves? Where'd that money come from? "Just
put your money in stocks" is oversimplifying the issue a bit, don't
you think?
I find it deliciously ironic that so many people use the Internet to
complain about the "evils" of capitalism and the United States of
America.
--
Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
Multiculturalism is one society's tolerance of other
societies' intolerance.
-- Mark Steyn
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