Re: America's Disease - is - Greed

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Date: 09/01/04 

Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 20:50:32 GMT

"robert j. kolker" <nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:2pjnjeFkatb3U1@uni-berlin.de...
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>
> Socialism is a Mental Disease wrote:
>
>> Everybody is greedy, poor and rich alike. The difference is that the
>> rich are good at it while the poor are not.
>>
>> By the way, greed is what has made this country what it is today, the
>> most powerful and richest in the world. As such, we need more greed,
>> not less.
>
> Greed is good - Gordon Gekko.
>
> Bob Kolker

Greed is good in a free market, but we don't have one. The lower classes
have too much money to spend and it corrupts the market and the culture.

GP

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