----- Original Message ----- From: "Alireza Alivandivafa" <DEmocrat2n@xxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 23:01 Subject: Re: [AIRLINE] Branson is coming > In a message dated 8/19/03 5:15:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > damiross2@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: > > > Just because an industry can be foreign owned does NOT make it right. As > > Mom use to say, "if everyone was jumping off a bridge, would you, too?" > > I do not think ANY American company should be owned by foreigners, > > especially the airline industry. > > 2 wrongs do not make a Wright, er, right. > > Um, so that rules out that great man (well, at least conservatives think he > is) Henry Kissenger. My father still has a green card, and owns a small > company. Baha, who we all respect owns his company (community property anyway). > Also, anyone drinking Budweiser (stolen from the Czechs), should scoff at the > idea of August Busch having owned a major company. Oh, and how about that guy > with the funny voice trying to run the biggest and best state in the country > (where both David and I live)? > Spoken in true liberal fashion - taking my words and twisting them around until I don't recognize them. Are you sure you aren't my ex-girlfriend? I'm talking about corporations, especially airlines, being majority owned by foreigners. Kissinger, by the way, was an American citizen. And, also in the generalities section, you can't say everyone respects Baha. I don't know enough about his company to be anything but neutral on it. Forgive me - I hate that phrase "who we all....<fill in blank>" because I hate to have someone else speaking for me. David R http://home.attbi.com/~damiross http://home.attbi.com/~damiross/books.html