 bistro777 Donuts-Is There Anything They Can't Do? Premium join:2002-02-07 Englewood, CO
| Re: German History We all know the quote by George Santayana Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. And Norman Cousins wrote History is a vast early warning system. My point was that greed and avarice are as old as the business world. What weve seen recently with companies like Global Crossing, WorldCom, Enron, Qwest ad nauseaum is simply a continuing pattern of business leaders putting the almighty dollar above all else, including integrity and morality.
My posts were not, as perhaps inferred, to be used as ammunition for those who want to exact some sort of punishment or revenge TODAY. There is, for example, a difference between the movement for reparations from US companies to the descendents of slaves and the German fund that is being paid directly to those who suffered. And I would hardly call that revenge. My Dad liberated one of those camps in WWII, and I have walked through several in both Germany and Poland. A more sobering sight youll never see.
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - - Aldous Huxley |