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echo: barktopus
to: Gary Britt
from: James Adams
date: 2005-02-22 09:57:22
subject: Re: Dems were lemmings, Greenspan the cliff

From: James Adams 

>
>
>The
>government investing the money is a horrible idea period for its overhead
>will be far higher than private regulated companies
>

Not necessarily so.  The Thrift Savings Plan for federal employyes has a
very low overhaead.  Something along the lines of <1%.  One of the
reasons is that they aren't paying their executieves a million os so a
year.

>and private regulated
>companies don't make investment decisions based upon politically correct
>criteria.


No, they make them based on criteria such as whose investment banking
business their handling.


>All those reasons I listed up thread about investment quotas in
>all kinds of whacko companies regardless of return.

This is a very real possibility and not just coming from the left. 
Partisans on all sides are going to want to use this money to reward/punish
according their prejudices.

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