---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment OK. I'll behave myself. But hopefully, there are no more of these or I might not! :-) Avery At 02:44 PM 9/15/05, you wrote: >Responding to Ernie's comments, which I certainly might echo: > >Looking at matters simply from the physical viewpoint (large holes >in Saudi Arabia now full of slightly greasy salt water) (rows and >rows of containers full of nicely made Chinese consumer goods lined >up in Long Beach, CA) (tangled and bent oil and gas pipelines >offshore near New Orleans) large-scale globalization of consumer >goods manufacturing is a short-lived idea with many drawbacks >(widespread unemployment in North America, for instance) which has >not been with us long, and which will not be with us much longer. >(Its demise will be unlamented by me.) > >The sooner we write off the Walmart kind of company, and put our >emphasis and what's left of our money on local endeavors and >solutions (straw bale mulch to build garden fertility, 1/4 of >grassfed local beef in the freezer to eat this winter), the better >off we'll be. > >Susan > >"May you live in interesting times." -- Old Chinese curse > >At 03:21 PM 9/15/2005 -0400, you wrote: >>Responding to Alan's comments, below, which many might echo: >> >>Alan Barnard said: >>Responding to Susan's comments, below, which many might echo: >> >>... >> >> but the government cut taxes (oh no, oh my, gloom and doom from >> some ...) and what happend? The economy came roaring back and >> the flow of money into government coffers substantially INCREASED. >> It always works. >> >>Really? Your share (and mine) of the national debt >>($7,961,868,911,485 and now increasing at an average of ~ >>$1,660,000,000 per DAY) is now ~$26,792. If your "tax cut" was >>greater than that, then, yes, I'll certainly admit that I'm wrong >>and, at least for you, the economy must certainly be better. >> >>If someone gave me a buck (that I didn't ask for) and then said I >>now owe them a hundred, I wouldn't exactly consider that to be a >>windfall for me, nor would it be likely to cause me to think better >>of them. So, if you have found a way to make out better by using >>these "tax cuts," please share with us how you were able to do >>this. Sharing business advice like that is what makes lists like >>this so useful for our entire industry. >> >>"Don't worry, be happy"? Is that like "And so many of the people in >>the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so >>this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them." >> >>I do appreciate that you are trying to look at the positive, but I >>think a more balanced approach that analyzes a thing for what it >>actually is, both the positive and the negative, is much more >>useful in the long run. Ditto for judging America's business and >>economic situation in the coming days by only surveying very >>wealthy individuals or very wealthy corporations, of which I would >>bet you a buck the vast majority of folks reading this list are neither. >> >> ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20/39/0c/6b/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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