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To: Rte66
If trashing other people for being worse off than you apparently are

I did no such thing.

I have infinitely more respect, say, for a guy who works unloading trucks for minimum wage than I do for the Enron energy options trader who is crying like a baby because the shares Enron contributed to his 401k for free as an added bonus are now worthless.

It's that trader I am trashing, not people who may or may not make less than I do.

And back when I actually was unloading trucks to make ends meet I would still have laughed at these crybaby Enron employees who put all their eggs in one basket and who apparently think the world owes them a living.

and jobs are just disposable to you,

Everyone who is a grownup knows that jobs don't necessarily last forever. I'm hardly alone in accepting this reality.

"A job for life" is a socialist dream and, like all socialist dreams, it's a recipe for a nightmare.

then I don't really care whether you think I made a "poor analogy" or not.

Oh, I'm sure that someone who willfully misrepresented my position as much as you did in your last post clearly could care less if he did make a silly and pointless analogy.

511 posted on 07/07/2006 8:06:44 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: wideawake

There were only a handful of employees that were energy traders in the bull pen.

Also, I wasn't speaking of their salaries in comparison to whatever yours is. I was speaking of the 10- 15- 20- 40-year employees who lost their jobs, their livelihoods, their health care benefits, their savings, their retirements, their trust.

Good for you, laughing at their misfortune and calling them morons. I know you wouldn't cry if it happened to you or if people piled on and kicked you while you were down.

Everyone who is a "grownup" expects businesses, especially enormous publicly traded ones being touted worldwide for their success, to be aboveboard and not making money from dishonesty.

Enron was just one example of a company that didn't adhere to that principle, causing many others to never trust the business community again.

A job for life may be a "socialist dream," as you call it - and it certainly misrepresents what *I* stated - but it happens every day in the US and there is nothing socialist about that mutual loyalty and respect at all.

You made a pretty silly point yourself when you assumed I'm a male.


514 posted on 07/07/2006 11:34:46 AM PDT by Rte66
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