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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Throwing the Gun
  • Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 10:14:11 -0700 (PDT)

You think faster than I think :) But, You forgot to mention that the owner
is (legal immigrant) from India .....bobf



--- On Sat, 10/4/08, Wendy <crazygardens AT verizon.net> wrote:

> From: Wendy <crazygardens AT verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Throwing the Gun
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 10:53 AM
> In this particular case, the clerks, dishwashers, maids,
> cooks, carpenters,
> and groundskeeper are probably all illegal aliens. They
> can go home. The
> auditor has other clients.
> Wendy
>
>
> >I see your point James. But, using your example,
> I'd say that if the hotel
> >shuts down, the lazy manager is only one person to lose
> their job. The
> >auditor, the clerks, the diswashers and maids, the
> cooks. and the carpenter
> >and groundskeeper lose most. And the banker, the
> broker, and the market
> >player will simply find another hotel in which to stay.
> >
> > I can not find a reason to think the bail-out is good
> for the country. I
> > agree with you it won't work. I'm just afraid
> that things are going to
> > become unimaginably complicated.
> >
> > If I remember correctly (and with my memory, I might
> not), in Leviathon,
> > Hume stated that life was short, hard , and brutish.
> I'm afraid we might
> > be about to witness 'brutish' ....bobofrd
> >
> >
> > --- On Sat, 10/4/08, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
> <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
> <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Throwing the Gun
> >> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> >> Date: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 10:13 AM
> >> > You don't seem to be saying that they
> won't be
> >> hurt, but instead, that in
> >> > the long term it would be beneficial, after
> the pain.
> >>
> >>
> >> Not precisely. As many fool as I know who
> borrowed money
> >> on the fake rise in
> >> equity of their houses and kite from one credit
> card to the
> >> other just to
> >> eat, I know just as many people who were wooed by
> the banks
> >> to take out a HELOC
> >> loan ("You deserve that vacation to the
> >> tropics!") and said, "Sorry, but only a
> >> fool would do that."
> >>
> >> You, Bob, paint a picture that the honest,
> hardworking,
> >> frugal person who has
> >> been very careful with their affairs will be
> blind-sided by
> >> this debacle and
> >> stand there, palms upturned, shrugging their
> shoulders, and
> >> saying they are
> >> suffering harm through no fault of their own.
> >>
> >> I'm telling you that's not so.
> >>
> >> One interview I read was of a woman with an
> investment
> >> business who was
> >> bemoaning the fact that she could not get yet
> another bank
> >> loan to tide her over
> >> because two clients had bellied up and could not
> pay her.
> >> The gist was, 'hard
> >> working people like this'. Hard working?
> Pshaw. It
> >> reminds me of the line in
> >> the song, "That' ain't woiking,
> that's the
> >> way you do it, money for nothing
> >> and you chicks for free..." That isn't
> someone
> >> who is hard working and, boo
> >> hoo, after all my hard work look at what's
> happened!
> >>
> >> In my misspent youth I was the night audior for a
> group of
> >> local motels. The
> >> vice president of the company's first name was
> Morris
> >> and the people who
> >> worked there referred to him as Morris the Cat
> because he
> >> was never seen to do
> >> anything of any benefit. The night auditor had
> been there
> >> since eleven the
> >> previous evening, and that usually after a day in
> college,
> >> trying to untangle the
> >> books with charges and reciepts scribbled on the
> backs of
> >> folios and vouchers
> >> written on chewing gum wrapers and stuck under the
> drawer.
> >> Here would come
> >> Morris the Cat sailing in at 5:30 in the morning,
> gruffly
> >> demand to see the
> >> ledgers, then go off raising hell with the kitchen
> staff
> >> because they did not have
> >> the breakfast of such a busy man as himself ready.
> After
> >> all, HE got up at
> >> 4:00 every day and worked haaaard! But all the
> worthless
> >> wankle ever did was
> >> check the ledgers in the morning and did nothing
> at all the
> >> rest of the day.
> >> Yet sold himself as being the epitome of the
> hardworking
> >> businessman.
> >>
> >> Most of the 'ooooo, these hard working people
> are going
> >> to be harmed' falls
> >> into that category. Anyone doing real work,
> producing real
> >> things, and doing so
> >> under sound business practices is going to be
> fine.
> >>
> >> What I mean by bettering their lot is that people
> will no
> >> longer be able to
> >> put up the pretense of 'working' when all
> they are
> >> doing is shuffling piles of
> >> paper and bits on a computer from here to there.
> >> </HTML>
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