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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I know I'm paranoid, but this whole election has
been feeling staged to me. I admit that a Mid-East explosion or some other
factor that would have seriously tanked the stock market right before the
election, helping Gore to make the case that only a goof-ball would put
Soc Sec into the market, didn't happen. Did Peres thrwart a plan
perhaps? Nah. But all these almost equally divided states feels
staged. And now all the talk about EVERY vote counts feels odd too.
To what purpose I can only imagine. And I'm sure I will. Maybe they
want a really high turn-out in the elections before Soc Sec is "reformed".
A voter mandate to support all the fat happy ticks who will be crying for a
market solution to SS after the next, and last bull run? Ya know, before
the recession that will be greatly exaggerated by so much of the new tech,
ASP's, VUI's, etc, that are designed mainly to get the warm bodies out of the
equation. I was just reading a pr from a company that has made order
picking and packing in warehouses so automated that the person actually doing
the work doesn't have to know how to read. If they even need a
person. Scary.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've just been catching up on my reading and saw
Doug's market predictions. I'm 99.99% convinced that after the Naz does a
really good tank, it will recover and surpass 5000. After that people will
knocking down the WH gates demanding SS privatization. THEN, the party's
over.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>smooches</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>pms</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>ps. I'm searching for stories about
George Tenet's visit with Arafat right after Israel used missiles a few
weeks ago. When Arafat came out and called for all Palestinians to march
to Jerusalem. I thought that was rather odd.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>