[PRCo] Re: Business

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

> ----- Original Message ----

> From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:38:15 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Business
> 
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Phillip Clark Campbell wrote:
> 
> > Going to extreme examples - absurd as you say - doesn't change the basic 
> > premise does it.  If one really thinks about it the most valuable 
> > lessons in life are learned thru adversity and possibly much pain.
> 
> Sure. I'm just uninterested in being volunteered for the pain instead of 
> opting into it, especially by someone who isn't also over that barrel.
> 
> I can (and do) make plenty of my own pain. I'm good at it.
> 
> A long socialist rant on healthcare was composed, and junked. Healthcare 
> is not transit, and so I'm going to shut up about it. I could create the 
> pittsburgh-diatribes at dementia.org list if you really, really wanted to be 
> subjected to it.
> 
> Derrick


Mr.Brashear!


Good points - thank you.  Could this be summed up with Pogo's statement:
"We have met the enemy and he is us?"  It is true that we cause ourselves
much pain isn't it.  'We' always have a tendency to choose the hard way first
don't we.

Likewise we don't choose recessions / depressions do we.  Best to prepare.

Did an excrutiatingly small comparison of US and British health care
more - far more - British dying for same condition than in US.
No; not interested in diatribes, just Prc.

Re  --  all these 'social' discussions - polls reveal that we are abysmally divided
on most / all topics with a 60% high behind a topic as extremely good;
rarely more than that.  Thus most such discussions are fruitless; nothing
is decided and certainly nothing is chanted as a result.  I have said far more
than I usually do and infinitely more than I wanted.  This ends it for me.


Phil