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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> Whatever happened to the older paradigm of building a business from the
> ground up slowly and with the captial the business itself 
> earned?  If the fellow's business is indeed improving that much, 
> then why can't it finance expansion?  Oh, not as fast perhaps, but 
> much more surely.

We Americans, and, I suspect, many citizens of the world, have become 
seduced by the various marketing media to believe that patience is a 
fault. Each generation wants more and wants it faster. What 
salespeople, marketers and Wall Street mavens want, no, demand, is 
more sales now, not tomorrow. Many quite substantial businesses are 
pushed into making decisions not by market analysis and careful R&D, 
but by stockholders' representatives who want profit this quarter and 
next quarter and, by god, keep that ever-rising profit coming in even 
if it bankrupts the business. In that case reshuffle the deck and begin anew.

We live in interesting times. Enjoy the journey.