[at-l] Regulation (was My Weekend)

[trailtrash@hotmail.com (Jerry Goller)]

I was going to let the original post slide....glad you replied so well. Good 
post.
Jerry

>From: kahley7 <kahley7@ptd.net>
>To: James Bullard <bullard@northnet.org>,   AT-L list 
><AT-L@mailman.backcountry.net>
>Subject: Re: [at-l] Regulation (was My Weekend)
>Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 06:54:10 -0500
>
>At 05:44 PM 3/5/01 -0500, James Bullard wrote:
> >At 01:52 PM 3/5/01 -0500, Hal Wright wrote:. In all that time I have 
>never seen any evidence to suggest that the majority of businesses today 
>are any more altruistic or less greedy than they were in the era that 
>spawned all of the regulation we have today.
> >
> >Saunterer
>
>
>Agreeded..but let's look farther.  The decade of greed.....and I'm talkin' 
>about the 90's not the 80's proved that the true
>greed lies in the populace.  The stockholders demand profits and don't 
>often seem to care how those profits are
>acheived.  With everyone lookin at their retirement accounts, they seem to 
>be all to willing to overlook anything else.
>I can't name the fund, but I saw a report on one that was aimed at stocks 
>in companies with strictly ethical management...
>companies that protected their workers, the environment and all that good 
>stuff.  They had very modest returns....and
>people dumped the stock looking for more bucks.  We like to blame 
>'business' but if we look behind the explotive
>habits of business we find a lot of people who are just lookin after their 
>own bottom line.
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