Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/23

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Subject: [Leica] Re: WAY off topic - "over-amped" Regan/Clinton dollars
From: John Collier <jbcollier@powersurfr.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 07:49:25 -0700

I agree Austin, a whole generation completely compromised by one stained
dress. The moral of the story is? Always, always pay for the dry cleaning.
Chicks cannot resist free dry cleaning.

John Collier 

PS: Vainly trying to write something more ridiculous than what is below but
failing miserably. Kennedy ruined me, sigh. If only I could have come of age
under Nixon or Bush Sr. After all what is a little manly burglary and what
was all that fuss about a few peon's savings.

> From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
> 
> <begin hissing and spitting, and slight drool out of quivering bottom lip>
> 
> What do you mean "time will tell"?  The stock market has gone down almost
> %70!  VERY legitimate companies were destroyed, and continue to be, and very
> ILLIGITMATE companies walked away with billions of dollars bilked from
> honest investors.  As I've said a dozen times, by the time we figure out who
> the guilty are, they guilty will be long gone.
> 
> Tens of thousands of fresh out of college (or flunked out of college) kids
> believed they could be instant billionaires by just starting an
> "ILoveChocolate.Com" web site...and now they are back at mommy's, and have
> to get real jobs...or not.
> 
> It is, in fact, this overinflated/unrealistic perception of reality, and the
> undervaluing of real work, that has deflated our economy during the recent
> past years.  Why work, when you don't have to?  Why actually make a decent
> product and sell it for a profit, when you can just make your company LOOK
> like it's worth something, and sell the company instead of the product.
> 
> Kids today want jobs where they can "socialize" instead of actually
> work...it's called "teen talk time".  These kids became young adults and
> adults during "that" (the Clinton years) time, and because of it, they have
> no real sense of values.  "Hell, the President never had a real job, so why
> should I".  Not all, mind you, but from what I see, quite a lot of them.
> Kids in my town don't want to work...I can't even get some kid to cut my
> lawn!  I've got to hire some out of work engineer, who charges $50 to push a
> lawnmower (and calls himself a "landscaper")...
> 
> <OK, end hissing and spitting etc.>
>

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