Re: Copper theft is deadly

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:05:02 -0500, "Robert Swinney"
<judybob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just about every dead scum bag has a host of scum bag friends that try to
validate his death with bull *** about how good he was.
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You have again identified the problem with language in that words
don't mean what we think these [ought to] mean. "Good" is a
[rapidly and erratically] moving target, highly dependent on both
the person using it and the context in which they are using it,
thus the difficulty in cross socio-economic class communication,
even if they [nominally] speak the same [English] language.

This also points up the insidious danger of allowing the
creation, continued existence, and especially the expansion of
significant numbers of marganalized/criminalized people in our
society.

Like the ad said "you can pay me now or you can pay me later,"
and "later" is showing up with the first installment of that
bill. To get a feel for what is about to occur, talk to a
resident of the larger Latin American urban areas such as Rio,
Sao Paulo, Bogota, or Buenos Aires.

The results of the policies [by both political parties] that
destroyed/exported the minimum wage entry level jobs these people
depended on are now beginning to bite as deeply into the
well-being and pocketbooks of the middle and upper classes and
their communities as they have done for years to the
under-classes and their communities.



Unka George (George McDuffee)
......................................................................
The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad.
His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction:
they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting,
and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be,
no matter how wicked or stupid.

Denis Diderot (1713-84), French philosopher.
Refutation of Helvétius (written 1773-76;
first published 1875; repr. in Selected Writings,
ed. by Lester G. Crocker, 1966).
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