Pat, At 16:17 12/01/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Dear Friends, >Many of you seem to have misplaced your "Political Soapbox List" address, >and are mistakenly posting such opinions here. >It's so much more pleasant when we discuss piano technology on this list. >Peace, With all due respect, Pat, I understand your frustration at what has become a thread that just won't go away. If I may, I'd like to try to make some relevance between this political discussion and piano technicians. All of us work hard for our money. It could be, and has been, argued that we work too hard for too little money. All of us, if we have the least intelligence, have been planning and looking forward to if not outright retirement, then at least a slowing down of business activity. (For me that will be in only about ten years.) To that end, many of us have been squirreling away money to allow that retirement. Perhaps we should discuss retirement plans and or good options for other financial plans. If you have stock, 401K or any other traded financial instrument get on line and check out what the market uncertainty has cost you since 11/7/00. http://finance.northernlight.com/fp.asp or http://public.wsj.com/home.html Go ahead, I'll wait. . . . . There, wasn't that fun? . . . . . Gore's ostrich posture with regard to the count, recount and partial re-recount results has dried up domestic and foreign investment. Not since my divorce has messing around by one person so negatively affected my retirement funds. Bottom line _is_ piano related. Presidential succession (or lack therof) is affecting bottom line. Therefore... Conrad Hoffsommer - mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu *They call television a medium. That's because it is neither rare nor well done. *98% of the population is asleep. The other 2% are staring around in complete amazement, abject terror, or both.
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