Gaar,

Shall I re-post the same response I did the last time you posted this
little fantasy story?

On Sep 30, 6:22 pm, Gaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sep 30, 4:15 pm, Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > You cannot make 500 million by in affect
> > doing nothing, producing nothing. That value must be created and it
> > is, it is put on the back of the workers, the producers of all value.
>
> http://www.ejectejecteject.com/
>
> Get this through your heads, you socialist ninnies! There is not a
> big, limited pot of wealth that is filled with the Magic Sweat of
> Authentic Third World Laborers, that America uses its military to
> steal from when we run out of wealth here at home.
>
> Here s something even the dimmest hippy protester / poet should be
> able to wrap his mind around:
>
> You buy a legal pad: $1.29
> You steal a Bic pen from the counter at Kinko s: free.
> You write the script for Weekend at Bernies 3: Bernie s Revenge!:
> free.
> You hire someone to type it: $30.00
> You have Kinko s print 5 copies: $62.20
> You mail the 5 copies: $7.82
> 5 idiots in Hollywood love the idea: free
> They enter a bidding war: free
> You get a check for: one million dollars!
>
> So let s see that $1,000,000, minus the $101.30 in expenses uh that
> means You, the village idiot, have just raised the Gross Domestic
> Product by, uh, one million freaking dollars, and have made a personal
> profit of $999,898 dollars and 69 cents.
>
> Where did the $999,898.69 come from? It came from thin air! You
> created it, out of nothing. You added value to the stock of paper and
> ink you started with. From the monumental talent you possess, the gift
> of intellect, the pen that made Shakespeare weep with envy, you have
> created WB3. You ve given millions of people two hours of side-
> splitting hilarity, for which they will part with $8.00 and you have
> created wealth. What s more, when you go and blow it all on the
> pointless material crap that makes life so much fun, you ll be
> bringing in a little extra for the Sea-Doo distributor, the BMW
> dealer, the girls at Cheetahs in Las Vegas, and all the others. Not to
> mention putting I dunno maybe half a million freaking dollars into
> welfare, Social Security, Medicare, the National Endowment for the
> Arts and the world s first fusion-powered, laser-armed, flying stealth
> submarine, the USS George W. Bush.
>
> You did not have to steal $999,898.69 from a farmer in Angola.
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