Re: (erielack) The Piermont Branch 6' guage

["Ken" <"lackawanna_@_iname.com">]

I'll throw my agreement in behind Messrs. Tatar & Jordan.  It's funny that
government gets concerned about the size and power of Microsoft, AT & T,
IBM, and, now, Times-Warner/AOL.  But no one gets concerned about the size
of the federal government.

People want government relief from a $2 ATM charge, but don't mind the
various forms of government taking over 45% of their incomes.  Something's
wrong here.

Ken B.
- ----- Original Message -----
From: The Jordans <"pamela_@_blast.net">
To: Blake D. Tatar <"BDTatar_@_worldnet.att.net">; <erielack@internexus.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: (erielack) The Piermont Branch 6' guage


> Blake-
>
> Thank you for your words of wisdom.  My thoughts exactly.  The government,
> ANY government, should not have the right to interfere with any business
or
> commerce.
> The railroads, I'm sorry to say, has had a history of government
> interference and has had to suffer many reversals because of it.
>
> -Joe Jordan
>
> At 01:09 PM 01/16/2000 -0500, Blake D. Tatar wrote:
> >Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 21:56:17 -0500
> >From: "Schuyler G Larrabee" <"sgl2_@_ix.netcom.com">
> >Subject: Re: (erielack) The Piermont Branch 6' guage
> >
> >Blake D. Tatar wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Eleazar Lord decided
> >
> >No, the State of New York did
> >
> >> to go with 6 foot gauge when he learned that the
> >> government (who should have nothing to do with commerce at all)
> >
> >Now THERE"S a statement that could be debated!  Jay Gould/Jim Fisk, John
D
> >Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J P Morgan, maybe even Bill Gates . . . no,
we
> >don't need rules for commerce at all . . .
> >
> >There is no debate about it. You either have capitalism which is based on
> >free enterprise protected by individual rights, or one of many forms of
> >socialism where capitalism is "permitted" when seen fit by a group of men
> >who design and create nothing. But being that most people like the
> >government control deal, we'll stick with it...until (as has always
happened
> >throughout the history of man) the creators will be punished to the point
> >that they refuse to create. The stagnation of the middle ages is the best
> >example of that. Hope I'm not around to see it. By the way, Jay Gould and
> >Jim Fisk were the only 2 on your list that actually violated individual
> >rights by stealing money and printing their own stocks (to name a few).
The
> >others created great empires while their workers (who had nothing before)
> >and our wonderful government (who produced nothing) forced them to give
up
> >what they created (at the point of a gun or the threat of imprisonment).
How
> >does that saying go? "The good of the many outweighs the good of the
one"...
> >It's the theme song for every tyrant to come down the pike. Sorry mister
> >Larrabee, I'm a champion of what our founding fathers set out to
accomplish,
> >unfortunately, it never got started.
> >
> >Blake D. Tatar
> >"BDTatar_@_worldnet.att.net"
> >http://home.att.net/~BDTatar/index.htm
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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