Chandru,
Please take your political ideas some place else.
They do not have any business in comp.databases.pick.
Thank you,
Homer Hazel
"Chandru Murthi" <cmurth_xyz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> "Bill H" <someone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:homdnY6nOYtwXnLanZ2dnUVZ_smnnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>I was working with staff from one of our client's the other day when I
>>asked to get external access to their dbms server (I'm accessing from
>>another city). The staff member suggested I go to 10.0.0.50. I thought
>>for a moment then decided I needed to speak with someone else as this
>>staff member didn't seem to have a frame of reference to solve the
access
>>issue I was having.
>>
>> I wouldn't know where to begin with your comments; I thought we had
>> gotten past this many posts ago.
>
> Meaning what, exactly? The interesting post by Excalibur pointed out
some
> of the problems we have here.But I would be quite hesitant to concede
> authority on these issues to some of the posters who say the following:
>
> Business taxes "higher than in other countries around the world"...
please
> cite. Please deduct all the subsidies that are readily available,
> particularly to large businesses.
>
> Quoting Milton Freidman is not particularly useful. I would no more
listen
> to his brand of anti-humanitarianism and economic Darwinism that I would
> take lessons from Genghis Khan on diplomacy.
>
> Implying that the Feds caused the current mortgage ---perhaps the poster
> means the Feds, with their general abrogation of all responsibility and
> oversight that our current administration has pushed in so many spheres
> (environment, law, science, teaching, what-have-you,) did encourage the
> rapacity of the lenders. So I guess they did.
>
> David Mamet may be a most brilliant playwright, but after reading his
> "jejune" (he used the word first,) rant, I fear he has lost his marbles.
> Nothing like a reformed liberal I suppose (like reformed smokers) who
> think that have found God in the word "MARKETPLACE!". Good reading,
> though, he can still weave the words.
>
> I don't know who Cullen Hightower is, but anyone capable of such pithy
> statements must be viewed with suspicion.
>
> Iae, I am perfectly happy to pay my own taxes, which I suspect are
> somewhat higher than the average CEO's.
>
> If you think the money you "earn" is actually solely derived from your
> efforts, you must live on an off-grid pig farm on a mountaintop. In any
> modern society, practically anything you do benefits from a chain of
> events that go way into your and others' past. You drive on roads
someone
> else paid for. You benefit from educational systems that have been in
> place for decades. Your safety depends on laws that society (maybe)
agrees
> to. etc. etc. To say that your income "belongs"only to you and that you
> owe nothing to society is simply short-sighted. Taxation is a direct
> attempt to pay back the debt you owe to society. Not including, of
course,
> other moral and humanitarian obligations.
>
> Finally, I'm surprised to see the concept of welfare queens, ****k
barrels
> and government waste still resonate, however debunked they are. Sorta
like
> McCain saying that we can balance the budget by cutting out what amounts
> to 2% of the GDP. I guess wishful thinking never ceases. Every company
> I've ever been involved with "wasted" resources at least at the same
rate
> as the "government." It's human nature, get more than three people
> together and waste ensues. Government is no more wasteful than any other
> large enterprise, it just is more subject to scrutiny and ridicule.
>
> Chandru Murthi
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> "Chandru Murthi" <cmurth_xyz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:nfsHj.88$ie3.28@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> It's unforunate that economic conservatives (I hesitate to use a
>>> stronger term,) think that they can get along without governments;
they
>>> should check out Afghanistan or somewhere the government does not
>>> intervene.
>>>
>>> Plainly: economic inequity in the US is increasing. This is a fact.
>>> Whether or not Tom with his raise has or has not an incentive to work
>>> harder, it is specious to claim that we have too-high taxes in this
>>> country. Clearly our extreme deficit and our other economic woes are
due
>>> to not gettting enough revenues.
>>>
>>> I find it particularly sad that so many upper-income folks (as our
dear
>>> President is so fond of saying) cannot see that those less fortunate
are
>>> in deep trouble, and getting more so. It's only the individualism
built
>>> into our (American's) psyche which makes the lower-income folks delude
>>> themselves into thinking things will get better rather than electing
>>> those who might cause real change. After all, they are the majority
are
>>> they not?
>>>
>>> Chandru (the proto-socialist) Murthi
>>>
>>> "Bill H" <someone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>> news:0JOdnThn2bKqpXbanZ2dnUVZ_qCunZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> Douglas:
>>>>
>>>> For those willing to tackle economic material from a religious
source,
>>>> there's always:
>>>>
>>>>
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/do***ents/hf_jp-ii_enc_01051991_centesimus-annus_en.html
>>>>
>>>> I thought this was a very enjoyable read, from a variety of
>>>> perspectives.
>>>>
>>>> Bill
>>>>
>>>> "Douglas Tatelman" <douglas@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>>>
news:8aa71cb5-be53-4ab6-b8f9-242814d299be@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>> Bill
>>>>>
>>>>> It is refre****ng to read your pro Market and economic freedom
>>>>> postings.
>>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps we should just point your detractors to David Mamets recent
>>>>> essay
>>>>>
>>>>> "Why I'm no longer a brain dead liberal"
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0811,374064,374064,1.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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