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To: old_sage_says

You are one of those eeeevil capitalists :)


339 posted on 02/13/2006 11:13:58 AM PST by Bahbah (An admitted Snow Flake and a member of Sam's Club)
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To: Bahbah

"You are one of those eeeevil capitalists :)"

LOL!!! Lord have mercy, I would like being classified with them.


You know what amazes me? I hear some people say so many bad things about capitalists. Those people fail to realize for one second that they might not have the opportunity to say anything about Capitalism if not for those who took the risk to produce something.

Speaking of risk-takers. Just how many providers of Capital lost their butts during the 90s? I have never heard anyone compare the "roaring 90s" to the "roaring 20s". In many ways they parallel to one another. The only differnce is, we didn't have a massive depression after the stock market fell hard.

Many of the people who provided Capital to all those internet companies lost their shirts and more. They are just now making enough on other investments to come back to the Capital markets.

The very people who "rescued" the stock markets are the rich. They are the ones who had the extra money to keep investing, even as the market kept going down. Yes, I realize many pension plans kept investing but at the same time, the rich had as much to do with keeping the markets afloat as onyone or any pension plan.

We "little people", as some have described us, are the ones who have benefited from their increased risk-taking.


344 posted on 02/13/2006 11:34:25 AM PST by old_sage_says ("Man does not live by his words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them" A S)
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