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Old 08-25-2012, 01:37 PM
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Ross Perot an oil baron? WTF?
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Just read this over lunch;

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...165589956.html
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Ross Perot an oil baron? WTF?
GAW! By bad. Computers and electronics. Once tried to buy General Motors......Duh. The Texas accent must've thrown me off.

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Old 08-25-2012, 01:52 PM
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GAW! By bad. Computers and electronics. Once tried to buy General Motors......Duh. The Texas accent must've thrown me off.

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Forgiven. In fact when I read your post I didn't think anything of it. It wasn't until I wrote off the top of my Detroit head that I realized, hey, there's no oil in this story!
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Old 08-25-2012, 01:53 PM
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Blue Cross/Blue Shield networks.
You're getting closer
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But the bottom line is people are missing the point on Ross. His view was that government policy should not undermine American workers. Most modern billionaires can't even say that, let alone believe it. What do we get from them now? Let me think about it. Oh yeah, today the poorest Americans have a microwave, teevee, and refrigerator so our work here is done.

Dicks.
All we really need is;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2qNPcLEm8U

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We know where Ross made his money. Re-read the quote; "....my best friends and colleagues...."

Self indictment by proxy, Paul. That's what makes it so truthful; It's a grand example of "Freudian Slip". It was a member of Americas business elite admitting that he and his buds "don't give a damn" about any of US.

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Old 08-25-2012, 02:04 PM
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Whatever.

What was it Mr. Details?
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Medicare. Whatever.

Everyone computerized during that era. Even my employer. And my buddies lawnmower shop. Computerization was good honest work. It was supposed to make us more efficient so that we could spend more time on vacation. But nooo.
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It was supposed to make us more efficient so that we could spend more time on vacation. But nooo.
Being unemployed is like being on vacation.

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