Jim Devine wrote:
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> * I disagree with Adam Smith's view that services are unproductive.
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I would like to see more on this. In addition, some things that are
called "service" look an awful lot like factories to me. Why should one
call the production of food in a MacDonalds "service la
At 05:17 PM 9/13/01 +0200, you wrote:
>Jim Devine:
> > I am not convinced that "imperial decline" is real. That kind of process is
> > reversible. Also, what specifically do you mean? The US industrial economy
> > may be in decline, but its military and financial might are undimmed. The
> > US/NAT
Jim Devine:
> I am not convinced that "imperial decline" is real. That kind of process is
> reversible. Also, what specifically do you mean? The US industrial economy
> may be in decline, but its military and financial might are undimmed. The
> US/NATO as a whole is still pretty strong. The transn
My fearless forecast, informed by nothing but
my debatable reservoir of common sense, is that
much less in the way of actual action will result
from all this than anyone thinks. To be sure,
lots of money will be spent. The Gov is good
at that.
But all options being raised will prove to be much
At 07:18 AM 09/13/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>If I understand what Warren Christopher, Warren Rudman, Sandy Berger, Bill
>Kristol, Lawrence Eagleburger, Henry Kissinger and Richard Holbrooke, among
>others, have been saying in the last twelve to fifteen hours, the Bush
>administration is planning a re
