Re: OT: Inflammatory Post of the Week

On 19 Nov 2005 01:48:49 -0800, bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:

>
>John Larkin wrote:
>> On 18 Nov 2005 14:48:00 -0800, bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>>
>> >Oh well.It can't be too long now before the international bankers who
>> >are now financing the U.S. balance of payments deficit finally lower
>> >the boom, and silly extravangances - like pointless military adventures
>> >in Iraq - are going to be off the menu, along with cheap gasoline.
>> >
>>
>> How does that old saying go, something like "If you owe a banker a
>> thousand dollars, you're in trouble; if you owe him a million, he's in
>> trouble."
>>
>> Only substitute "trillion."
>
>A truism so well-known that even nternational bankers understand it,
>whch is why the boom will be lowered earlier rathr than later. As long
>as the US had assets left to sell off, everybody was happy to let them
>go their extravagant way, but the bottom of that particular barrel has
>now been well-scraped, and no amount of creative book-keeping is going
>to persuade anybody to buy the residual junk.
>
>> >Hope Jim likes cycling.
>>
>> He works at home!
>
>And lives under house arrest? That figures..The intermittent boasting
>about over-engined cars is just pure nostagia from the days when he
>could use a car to visit his kids and his like-thinking friends (and
>you wouldn't want to live within gunshot of his like-thinking friends,
>would you ....).
>

Your reflexive (and uninformed) carping becomes tedious. Your only
pleasures seem to derive from predicting misfortune and deploring the
lives of others. This seems, if I dare to generalize, peculiarly
European.

Jim and I are doing good work and having fun. You might give that a
try.

But the real question is, do you think adding the rocket launchers
would detract from the beauty of my Golf?

John

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