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- From: hamachi@adobe.com (Gordon Hamachi)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Act Now to Fight the Deficit
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.190701.10264@adobe.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:07:01 GMT
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- Gordon Hamachi writes:
- > This kind of selfish attitude is a major part of what's wrong with our
- > country today: make money any way you can, and screw everyone else.
-
- Red Herring responds:
- > Actually, this is a major part of what is right with the U.S.
- >
- > Countries where people are urged/forced to "all work together"
- > are not better off, and many of them are collapsing.
-
- You have it almost exactly backwards.
-
- The Eastern Block countries collapsed because the people didn't work. And it
- is a sad comment on our society that for many the American Dream is to win the
- state lottery and retire on unearned riches.
-