Only if we let them, sadly we do. Say Luis how do you know if a politician is lying?
-----Original Message----- >From: Luiz Felipe <[email protected]> >Sent: Feb 8, 2009 4:00 AM >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: OT - Obviously not a H2G2 fan > >Peter, that's Darwinism, government-style - the survival of the most >interesting campaign funders. > >LF > >As far as any government is concerned, the risk is ours, the rewards are >theirs. And even if they don't screw up, the bill is on us. > > >Peter Alling escreveu: >> The problem was separating risk from reward, those who took the risks were >> rewarded no matter what the outcome. The CEO's who should have reined it in >> would be rewarded anyway, the risks were often hidden and sold as safe >> investments to dupes, often with government connivance. >> >> -----Original Message----- >>> From: AlunFoto <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Feb 6, 2009 6:03 AM >>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Re: OT - Obviously not a H2G2 fan >>> >>> 2009/2/6 Luiz Felipe <[email protected]>: >>>> Ok, maybe I'm just heavy-handed, but I'm willing to try tar and feathers, >>>> or >>>> perhaps exposing in stocks as reward for the too-wise-politician and >>>> too-fearsome-economist. >>> Well... I'm certainly no economist, but I got the impression that >>> excessive risk-taking, particularly with other people's money, was one >>> of the main reasons why things got screwed this time. Again. Just like >>> at the end of the YAP-age in -89. >>> >>> I'd cheer a precise administration of tar and feathers though. :-) >>> >>> Jostein >>> >>> -- >>> http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ >>> http://alunfoto.blogspot.com >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> > >-- >Luiz Felipe >luiz.felipe at techmit.com.br >http://techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/ > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow >the directions. -- I want to die peacfuly in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming like the passengers in his car... Will Shriner -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
