🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 03:13:50 GMT, David <davidj@home.com> wrote:

>In 1998, four of Canada's biggest banks proposed to merge. The deals would
>have meant the loss of thousands of Canadian jobs and the closure of
>hundreds of local branches across the country. The Council of Canadians
>launched a well-publicized cross-country campaign to convince federal
>Finance Minister Paul Martin to reject the proposed mergers and bring
>greater accountability to the banking industry. The Finance Minister ruled
>against the mergers on December 14, 1998.
>
>We owe the Council of Canadians our gratitude.
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I guess it's just a matter of the cause being greater than any one
person, eh David.  Knowing this allows you to make a complete fool of
yourself without a shred of remorse.
btw, the 1,400 jobs being eliminated by the Bank of Montreal recently
is because Maude won her battle, or ??? 
>
>John Corman wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 00:57:15 GMT, David <davidj@home.com> wrote:
>>
>> >John Corman wrote:
>> >
>> >> But Lars, knowing the intellect of those who would actually listen to
>> >> this screwball, they wouldn't know what year it was anyway.
>> >
>> >John Corman is a leading intellectual because he knows what year it is.
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>> My goodness.  A scathing attack from what appears to be an unarmed
>> warrior.
>> Do you actually want to debate the intellect of Maude and her
>> followers David, or is this just a little gorilla warfare.  Hit and
>> run, so to speak?
>> If you do want to discuss the sanity of Maude and her followers, why
>> don't we start with the "Banking Conspiracy".  That conspiracy,
>> according to Maude and her ilk, had it that in the early nineties, the
>> banks, in conspiracy with the Conservatives, maintained high interest
>> rates as a pay back for their political support.  Funny though, how
>> low interest rates in the mid to later part of the nineties resulted
>> in the biggest earnings in the banks' history.
>>
>> The next Maude conspiracy has it that the banks don't pay income
>> taxes.  But that's probably a little too much for you to absorb all at
>> once so we'll just leave that for the time being.
>>
>> John Corman ****** @server home.com

John Corman ****** @server home.com