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"Chris" wrote: No, there is a fundemental difference. The road tax on gasoline pays for all the roads are you claiming that, in the USA, the only source of funds to pay for roads is the tax on gas? In MA we have this excise tax which I thought paid for part of the road infrastructure. A tax is a tax, it makes no difference what you call it. the name of the tax was not what I questioned. -- Bob Noel looking for a sig the lawyers will like |
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"Dave Stadt" wrote in message ... "Matt Barrow" wrote in message ... "Morgans" wrote in message ... "Dylan Smith" wrote in message ... In article , Morgans wrote: Good Lord help us all! I suppose they will be made with China steel. That is the softest, inconsistent crap have ever seen, let alone all the other made in China crap. Unlikely - Diamond's planes are made of plastic! OHMYGOD!! They'll sneak it through the metal detectors!! :~) I know you are kidding, but I am sure there are some VERY important steel parts in the "plastic" airplane, too. ;-) The relief tubes? -- Matt --------------------- Matthew W. Barrow Site-Fill Homes, LLC. Montrose, CO This just in..........Chrysler (or whatever name they are going by now days) is openly discussing moving some manufacturing to China. In their case, that would be an improvement. |
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"Matt Whiting" wrote in message ... Mike Rapoport wrote: "Wolfgang Schwanke" wrote in message ... "Matt Barrow" wrote in : http://www.timbro.com/euvsusa/ (EU vs. USA) by a think tank in Stockholm, Sweden Read particularly the summary at the bottom and some of he charts comparing the various EU countries against the US. Of course, the results of such surveys depend on the political leanings of the authors. Authors who favour a neoliberal policy will come to results that portray the US as better, so to encourage Europeans to mimick American policies. Economics isn't a science, it's ideology to a large extent. Very true! I think economics is relatively science based, but the interpretations are often ideological. However, that is true with many fields. Everything from physics to astronomy to geology to archeology. It would be if you confuse/conflate the DATA and the INTERPRETATION and the SUGGESTED ACTION. Of course, for someone, or an entire culture, that is used to being led by the nose (Europe and other statist cultures) by their media, schools, priests, government, etc., it becomes a big problem. |
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"Matt Whiting" wrote in message ... Mike Rapoport wrote: "Matt Barrow" wrote in message ... "Mike Rapoport" wrote in message thlink.net... "Matt Barrow" wrote in message ... "Mike Rapoport" wrote in message news Given that only a small percentage of Chineese are participating in their "new" economy, it will be a long time before this happens. Remember that Japan's economy stalled after they became (and remain) the richest developed nation on a per capita basis. Even after their economy puked, what, 2/3rds of it's value? -- Matt --------------------- Matthew W. Barrow Site-Fill Homes, LLC. Montrose, CO How are you arriving at that? What was the NIKKEI at it's peak and bottom? It's now at 11,045 and wasn't it at around 40,000 at it's peak in 1990? That is ridculous. Economies are not measured by stock market valuations. The GDP of Japan is larger now than ever before. How would you rate the US economy on that metric? The Nasdaq is down 61% from its high five years ago. Very true. Stock market valuations measure only the investing communities optimitism or pessimism about future stock prices. :-) Based on..... :~) |
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"Matt Barrow" wrote in message ... "Dave Stadt" wrote in message ... " This just in..........Chrysler (or whatever name they are going by now days) is openly discussing moving some manufacturing to China. In their case, that would be an improvement. Based on the quality problems Mercedes is having they might benefit from a trip to China also. |
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On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:30:40 -0700, Matt Barrow wrote:
Very true. Stock market valuations measure only the investing communities optimitism or pessimism about future stock prices. :-) Based on..... :~) Please do me only ONE favour: TRIM YOUR POSTINGS! Please! there is no need to quote _all_ the irrelevant text (but the text you are referring to). thanks again, martin follow up to poster (this means: no further discussions here, reply by mail if there is a need to do so) -- http://www.hotze.priv.at/album/aviation/caution.jpg |
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Trim please, as it's somewhat inefficient for us readers/lurkers trying to keep up with these threads otherwise. Thanks :-) wilco! |
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will come to results that portray the US as better, so to encourage Europeans to mimick American policies. Economics isn't a science, it's ideology to a large extent. Very true! I think economics is relatively science based, but the interpretations are often ideological. However, that is true with many fields. Everything from physics to astronomy to geology to archeology. It would be if you confuse/conflate the DATA and the INTERPRETATION and the SUGGESTED ACTION. Of course, for someone, or an entire culture, that is used to being led by the nose (Europe and other statist cultures) by their media, schools, priests, government, etc., it becomes a big problem. Sounds like the US this, Christian fundamentalists, the gun lobby, the growing government, all trying to tell people how to live. Take the recent Schiavo case. Fancy Congress coming in at the weekend to pass a law to interfere like that. Worthy of the communists/fascists. As for media you buy the side that suits your views. |
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"Dave Stadt" wrote in message m... "Matt Barrow" wrote in message ... "Dave Stadt" wrote in message ... " This just in..........Chrysler (or whatever name they are going by now days) is openly discussing moving some manufacturing to China. In their case, that would be an improvement. Based on the quality problems Mercedes is having they might benefit from a trip to China also. Didn't MB move a lot of their production to Alabama or some such place? |
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On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 07:55:04 -0700, "Matt Barrow"
wrote: snip I'd bet that Denver Intl (Frederico Pena's monument to himself) cost as much as the rest of GA airports combined Man, what a place! I arrived via road well before sunup to catch the early flight home. It seemed like the drive went on for hours when I saw a line of lights, a very long line, extending from right to left. They were the toll gates into the parking lot. I don't know how many gates, but I'd never seen that many. That parking lot probably has square miles of concrete, or it sure seemed like it. They have their own subway system and believe the signs when they tell you to hang on. Those are to keep you from ending up in a pile at the end of the car when it acellerates. I've been into ORD many times but it doesn't seem near as big as DIA. I wonder if they ever did get their multi-million dollar automated baggage facility fully functional? Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com The taxes on GA don't cover the services and facilities that GA uses exclusively I don't think that any of them were during the enroute phase of flight. It doesn't say. |
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