What makes up a great difference between Americans and Europeans, lawyers or not, when purchasing power is conserned, is that we Europeans 'must' pay for our own - and other's, health care insurance, child care, education and all that, before we can buy a Mercedes SUV or a H3. Some 42% off my salary goes to that, pluss a hefty 20% sales tax is my contribution. + + No. I am not trying to be 'political'. I am just trying to explain. I did not bring this subject up. Tom of Oslo > From: Wilko Bulte [wb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 2008-07-03 14:52:13 CEST > To: Bernard Ferster [b.ferster@xxxxxxx] > Cc: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [HUG ] Re: Price Comparisons > > Quoting Bernard Ferster, who wrote on Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 07:55:49AM -0500 .. > > > At 05:30 PM 7/2/2008, you wrote: > > >Shakespear told us long ago what we should do with lawyers. We > > >failed to heed his advice. Look at us now. > > > > But when you are up to your ass in troubles, a lawyer is a hell of a > > lot more useful that a photographer. > > In the past the same logic was applied to a Colt Peacemaker > > Wilko > > ============================================================================================================= > To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your > account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you > subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. >