Re: OT: Inflammatory Post of the Week

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 08:14:08 -0800, John Larkin wrote:

> 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?

Well, it would certainly increase the distance of your tee-shot! ;-)

Cheers!
Rich


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