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Would you seriously argue that FedEx or UPS is the same excellently run company that it started as, that they have not deteriorated from the

start up risk takers? Are you seriously suggesting that Sam Walton is not doing 9000 RPMs in his grave to see what WalMart has become? Do you

even remember when everything sold in WarMart was made in the USA? Did you even know that Mr. Sam used to visit each and every store every

year, and that he opined that if you could be reached on your office phone, you were not doing your job? If you can't think of a hundred more

examples, then you aren't trying.

Now I don't completely blame the corporate executives alone. A good start on the problem would be to disbar 25% of the lawyers in America and

reduce the admissions to law school by 50% per year ad infinitum. Nevertheless, I would suggest that the people and companies that fulfill

the perimeters that you lay out in the quoted paragraph above are a rare breed indeed. The folks in the very top strata of business today are

a very hard group to love and admire, even for a hard core, Milton Friedman, Conservative, Capitalist like myself.

p>But hey, the rest of the column is great. br> -- Ken Shreve

 Excellent Lisa! "The truth will set you free!" This is the kind of dialog that needs to be discussed in the MSM in order to bring it into

the nation's consciousness and dispel the many falsehoods about which party is really to blame for so many of societies' ills. Unfortunately,

the falsehoods being perpetuated by the dishonest media is by the very same MSM (that should be looking out for us). br> -- John Nelson br>

Hebron, Connecticut /p>

Fabrizio makes good use of the phrase "chickens have come home to roost" by reversing its original meaning and also Wright's intent. She

points out that the terrorists attacked on 9/11 because the U.S. is promoting good values in the world, values that they oppose.

It is worth mentioning, however, an obvious point I have not noticed being mentioned by the media. This phrase, as Wright surely knew, had

been used by Malcolm X (sound familiar?) when JFK was assassinated. And Malcolm X added: "Chickens coming home to roost never made me sad. It

only made me glad." It was too much even for Elijah Muhammad, who banned him from public speaking for 90 days.

The sentiments of Malcolm X resembled those of Vietnam's First Lady who seemed to assert that JFK earned his assassination by what he did to

the Diem brothers. She meant: live by the sword, die by the sword; and she and Malcolm X meant: I'm not sad about what happened. What Wright

seemed to mean was that the U.S. had earned and provoked the 9/11 terrorist attack by acting with bad values in the world. Bad karma.

Inevitable result.