tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23242722.post5973491952235661267..comments2023-09-10T07:57:03.363-04:00Comments on FreeDemocrat's Freedom blog: The Good TaxFreedemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11258226225035507448noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23242722.post-91760710832001626842008-02-15T10:05:00.000-05:002008-02-15T10:05:00.000-05:00To see a very detailed description of the Gang Of ...To see a very detailed description of the Gang Of Pirates in action the BBC did a great blow by blow in <A HREF="http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22Mayfair+set%22&hl=en" REL="nofollow"> their TV miniseries the Matfair set</A>Freedemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11258226225035507448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23242722.post-89226703364525531272008-02-15T09:35:00.000-05:002008-02-15T09:35:00.000-05:00If you follow the reality behind the metaphor the ...If you follow the reality behind the metaphor the farmers of those cash cows did not do so well at the end either, a big hit when the cow was sold ( and for less that it would appear before hand) but interest on cash is nowhere near as profitable as a cash cow, and with the games practiced by the Gang Of Pirates (Enron was famous but only a tiny part) that dream of living large fades very quickly as well. The big players of American industry are off to China, but many midrange businessmen are near as bad off as their workers, and as the part about the calves went, cannot easily start a new business due to a lack of infrastructure of other small businesses that would have provided parts and materials in the past.Freedemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11258226225035507448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23242722.post-64729767436418337712008-02-15T06:49:00.000-05:002008-02-15T06:49:00.000-05:00Fetching! I think the metaphor could benefit from...Fetching! I think the metaphor could benefit from the introduction of cow-hands and cow-maids, who fed, cleaned, watered and milked the cows of Yor. <BR/><BR/>Then those who tended to the beloved cows' health and well-being could have been shown to have little control over each cow's ultimate fate. And because the allure of a short-term sale grew quickly under the evil twin's low-tax regime, farm-owners cared much less about a cow's long-term health and its production of high-quality milk. These issues became secondary to keeping near-term costs low in order to make a larger, quick profit at the butcher shop. <BR/><BR/>Thus, long-term approaches to cow health came to be viewed as amateur and passe. Quick-fix, facade-improving efforts were regularized, like repeated oiling of mangy skin, bleaching the teeth, tongues and scleras, and high-fat diets (to yield more weight on the butcher's scale, but detrimental to a cow's health). Many hard-working cow-hands and cow-maids had no choice but to watch as their beloved cows, one by one, deteriorated before being shipped to bloody butcher blocks. <BR/><BR/>All of this, before many farms were shut down, and those farmers lived large off the earnings.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02977099933213256834noreply@blogger.com