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Re: Friday funny



Whoops... I noticed a bit of a typo in the joke below, so I fixed it.

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Subject: Friday funny


For those of us having a hard time understanding this Enron thing .. .. ..

[...]

Capitalism
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
The bank calls in your note which is purchased by the owner of a large
multi-national dairy corporation which moves the whole operation to a free
trade
zone in a "developing" country and keeps the profits in an offshore bank
where they can
avoid paying taxes on them. In a bad year the company will demand (and get)
tax rebates and
or taxpayer funded corporate bailouts. The owner of the company retires on
the income.


This sort of explains the whole Enron thing too.


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