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TB — 3/12/2009 5:49:49 PM (archived)

Lee oversimplifies things a bit. At some level, everyone who works is a producer, trading the products or services they create for things other producers create.

If the person who hired Lee didn't have a job of his own, he wouldn't be paying anyone to cut his grass.

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Oh my gosh, Jon Stewart is a genius - azstrummer - 3/11/2009 5:12:52 PM
- "Why in the world would anyone be idiotic enough to take him on?" - Lindy - 3/11/2009 11:29:45 PM
  - Why should anyone listen to any financial expert? - ER - 3/11/2009 11:44:02 PM
    - "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which when taken at the flood - - - " - Bowser - 3/12/2009 12:33:24 AM
    - There were some predicting the crash. - Eri - 3/12/2009 12:29:01 AM
      - I predicted it during the Reagan Administration, - ER - 3/12/2009 1:27:04 AM
        
        "In charge of the economy" - TB - 3/12/2009 2:13:46 AM
        
        Businessmen don't want to run the economy. - ER - 3/12/2009 9:44:34 AM
        
        re: Businessmen don't want to run the economy. - TB - 3/12/2009 4:33:28 PM
        
        Sometimes the naivete of the committed amuses me. - ER - 3/12/2009 6:58:38 PM
        
        Repeating the same thing at greater length is not a rebuttal. - TB - 3/13/2009 4:57:57 AM
        
        John 3:16 meets Rashomon - ER - 3/13/2009 6:28:52 PM
        
        re: John 3:16 meets Rashomon - TB - 3/13/2009 10:50:47 PM
        
        Here's what I think - ER - 3/14/2009 12:18:54 AM
        
        Businessmen are the economy. - Lee - 3/12/2009 4:50:23 PM
        
        Der Fuher ist Deutschland, huh Lee? (n/t) - McFly - 3/13/2009 12:14:32 PM
        
        Huh? - Lee - 3/13/2009 4:13:47 PM
        
        "When's the last time you got a job from someone who wasn't a businessman?" - ER - 3/13/2009 10:15:02 PM
        
        Hmm - who is the dog and who is the tail? - Laurie Street - 3/12/2009 5:39:28 PM
        
        It's dogs all the way down. - TB - 3/12/2009 5:49:49 PM
        
        One hand washes the other. - Lee - 3/12/2009 6:23:48 PM
        
        "both are careerists corrupted by ambition" - Lindy - 3/12/2009 12:56:02 PM
        
        And we've had the businessmen. Enron, Worldcom were just the start. - Bowser - 3/12/2009 3:51:25 AM
        
        Of course it's not the norm. - TB - 3/12/2009 4:23:48 AM
        
        All regulated. Every one. But lift the regulations, - - - ! (n/t) - Bowser - 3/12/2009 5:44:51 AM

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