re Bailouts etc

About 20 years ago Americans began to doubt that hard work and honesty were well rewarded. The political and financial fixers were making billions,

while Joe sixpack scraped thousands together for basics.

A society which does not reward honesty and hardwork, will lose both in their citizens, and in society.

Would I work in godawful conditions in Guongdong for $130/mo?

-Or be a fishing boat deckhand for $500, helping to conceal $100,000 contraband under a layer of fish. Kowtowing to customs, as the bribe is paid.

Would I work for $200 in Manila, or transpot moonshine for the tourist bars at $1000 per trip?

What would I do in USA?

No one in Sichwan has been charged for building schools out of tofu.

Charges dont matter in any of the 3, -The court is paid for.

How many charges have been laid in this financial crisis?

It is common to hear of tradesmen or factory workers

supporting family and community for 40 years, seriously sick, living in a shelter, with nothing.

The American icon is the cowboy. A cowhand has incredibly hard work:

-rain, snow, sun and wind, bone shattering danger, the endurance of a Roman soldier.

But on Saturday night, stay away from him. The steel inside explodes like a shell casing. All hell breaks loose. And stay back on Sunday -they getjesus and want you to. Or else.

As in all work, you have the wannabes. The Chinese customs clerk

who looks the other way, the yahoo preacher-poliician-broker who

couldnt stay in his saddle in law school, so attatched himself to the local politico, and became a Saturday night cowboy for George Bush.

Part of thousands of yahoo ,gotjesus, we-makeour-own-reality, freedom fried, free-market, rabble rousing demagogues: The Failed Cowboys who think Bill Gates was 'just lucky', and they can be too. With some bank fudging, congressional and senate lobby $$$, local payoffs, and above all, squeezed, pressured, amenable, gotjesus freemarket Brownie wannabe REGULATORS. We can see now why the yahoo bankers whined and squirmed for freemarket Innovation to be Unrestricted and Unregulated.

Innovation? These people would fail high school math.

Who destroyed America? WE DID. We listened to a bunch of yahoo likkered-up Saturday night cowboy Wannabees tell us about the Gold in them thar hills. So we put our money down, and they scooped it, got outta Dodge, ran off with Sally the dancer. And honest Fred cant pay the mortgage on Monday.

We marched against Iraq, but was it mostly a token stand on priciple. --Unlike the Eastern Europeans or the Russians who brought nations to a full stop.

When 6 yr old suzie cant understand why there is again no supper tonite,will we march? Or will the tofu senators just cave to the lobbyists. from a previous letter: "CHANGE is Necessary, so that Everything can remain the Same" --Guiseppi di Lampadusa.

Hello Joan:

Why? Across all departments and choices/selections

I felt the content to be very RELEVANT.

I cant do a proper analysis now. (Unfair), but I

will catch up, in referring to the 04 12 08 edition

as a great issue. Maybe Salon's greatest strength

is that it continuously Evolves. More!

Great work. Thank you. ARGONNE

You were one of the very first financial writers

to be concerned about subprime events.

2 1/2 -3 years ago? Like a good stock picker you

realized that this story would grow, (into a monster)

I searched for references from your writing as the

horror began to unfold, and found a few. Now they

make up the bulk of the media. But you were one of

THE FIRST.

Your China commentaries were also early and specific.

a long list of your links, which no one else mentioned,

still populate my several desktop screens.

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Digital media does not provide inherent credibility.

It was your measured observations of the day to day

financial, technical and economic events which provided

the Credibility to pursue the above links, to great

advantage.

The Cultural references to India and China were even

more useful, and less common. This opened 2 long

'projects' to dig into personal queries of mine

about both. I got to a personal level English instruction

with a student in Qingdau, which became very personal indeed.

Distance relationship is the common term for it now. My teaching

was rather good, -she is the Eng resource person on the web

and in person for a medium size company.

An observation: The more complex, subtle, and varied, through

many disciplines: economics, law politics, in student-teacher

conversations, the more the student's ability will become the same. 'Cici' could talk with the same people I do here.

A huge thank you to YAHOO for unrolling truly amazing, Stable

Free software. A big plug, yes -They deserve every bit of it and more!

I think that I have experienced the maximum that one can with IM. I know Quingdau, as I know my home town. Shandong, as my home state. Media and info sources, the same -Bidou, Yahoo 360 friends, etc I 'lived' in China thru IM, ate, traveled, had fun and worked, --thru 'Cici'. (often 8-10 hrs/ day over 1 1/2 years. I have lived well, but this experience was/is absolutely new, and dizzying. Im sure Cici understands North America as well as I do China. I read very little of this experience with IM. Why?

Too long letter, but I hate to delete any of it. Thanks again.

CHEERS, ARGONNE

"there has been no increase in ave global temp

in 10 years (the spectator, UK)

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