On Thursday, June 18, 2009, at 07:02AM, "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Marc James Small" <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx> >To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:46 PM >Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT: Zeiss Agencies and French >optics being nationalized > > >> On 6/16/2009 8:21 PM, Jerry Lehrer wrote: >>> Manny, >>> >>> Of course you are right! Let all the car manufacturers >>> and their suppliers and employees go belly up. The banks >>> and insurers too. We need another depression as we had >>> post 1929. Or as Germany had after WW1. >>> >>> That will bring the strong to power! :-) >>> >>> Yes you are right-- Right OOYFM! >>> >> Jerry >> >> Government stimulus packages have been tried across the >> World for the past 4,000 years. Not one of them has ever >> worked. All have failed and have failed miserably. None >> of FDR's hinky-dinky programs worked to alleviate the >> Great Depression: the WWII boom did that, just by way of >> one example. >> >> Marc > > Name me a 4000 year old stimulus package, just one. > >-- >Richard Knoppow >Los Angeles, CA, USA >dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pyramid Building 101, or if that's not in the right time frame, Newgrange Knowth and Dowth:- all Irish megalithic tombs... To the best of my knowledge potlatch is also another form of stimulus package and has been identified as a fairly fundamental human practice across a wide variety of civilizations. All the best Larry Cuffe > >--- >Rollei List > >- Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >- Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' >in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org > >- Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with >'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org > >- Online, searchable archives are available at >//www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list > > > --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list