The Cook wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:24:30 -0400, Goomba >
> wrote:
>
>> l, not -l wrote:
>>
>>> It is a nice bag; I bet this recycling of stuff would really catch on if
>>> prices were reasonable.
>> Well, it would make much more sense to recycle "stuff" from our own
>> shores first rather than importing another's trash. "Think Global, act
>> Local" mindset
>
>
> There is a very interesting 4 part series on Discovery. It started on
> Wednesday at 10pm. Ted Koppel about "The Peoples' Republic of
> Capitalism." I saw parts of Wednesday night and Tivoed last night's
> show. I am going to make sure I Tivo the rest.

I don't know about the program you mentioned but that is a very accurate
statement. All you have to do is look at the recent sub-prime mortgage
mess. Financial institutions created instruments that likely even they
didn't understand (since outfits like merrill lynch actually owned some
of the dubious stuff they issued) to screw others. It was all run like a
giant casino and when it all came crashing down the first thing the
"capitalists" did is ask the government to pick our pockets in order to
make them whole again from their gambling losses.

Now the third local walmart is literally moving across the street from
their current locations. The only problem with the current location is
that the nine year tax exemption is about to expire. When we (the
taxpayers) built the original site for them we acquired and developed
the land for them for free including running the utilities and
constructing a highway interchange at no cost to walmart and gave them a
nine year tax exemption. Now we are repeating that one by one as their
tax exemption expires. I would think one of the worlds richest families
and businesses could afford to pay taxes and pay for there own stuff.