<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2>is that 90% up from 89.9, marta?   or down from 91%?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2>frankly, this was true 60 years ago, 150 years ago, 200 years ago.   seems to characterize a country where "greed is good" and "it's no sin to be rich."    never heard any founding fathers criticize someone for being wealthy.   </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2>and they say land speculation ruined the country.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2>R</FONT></DIV></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #008000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=ap888@lafn.org href="mailto:ap888@lafn.org">Marta Russell</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 07, 2003 3:34 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [lbo-talk] Iraq war "clearer" to Americans than WW 2</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>>>From: Carrol Cox <<A href="mailto:cbcox@ilstu.edu">cbcox@ilstu.edu</A>><BR>>><BR>>>... Carl's constant bad-mouthing of people begins to irritate.<BR>><BR>>Am merely a humble grain of sand trying to induce you and the other <BR>>oysters hereabouts to produce pearls of wisdom.<BR>><BR>>Carl<BR>><BR><BR>Here is mine.  I can count on my fellow Americans to let me down <BR>about 90% of the time.  That gives me some pain relief but does not <BR>quell the nauseaus feeling in my gut.<BR>But what else can one expect from the consumer culture spawned by the <BR>most capitalist state in the world?<BR>Marta<BR>-- <BR>___________________________________<BR><A href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>