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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John
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> And I will add that stock holders also don't care about the
> long term anymore. ....
> The same is true of governments today. No long term thinking.
> They think only to the next election. Imperial Rome died from
> this (IMO, but I'm not a historian).
ITYM "They think only OF the next election."
In many ways, the "good ole USA" died with JFK, but like the
freshly-decapitated chicken, doesn't yet realize that it's dead.
-jc-
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