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- From: nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu
- Subject: Re: Corp Control, Shareholders.+
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.155644.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec29.034938.1@acad3.alaska.edu> <1992Dec29.175641.28581@vexcel.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:56:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.175641.28581@vexcel.com>, dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec29.034938.1@acad3.alaska.edu> nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
- >>If people want to control the MEGA-Corps, then spend your money and buy some
- >>voting stocks and become a SHARE-HOLDER.. After all who does the corporations
- >>respect other than a high government official (maybe), the shareholders..
- >>At least when they vote. I have one share in ARCO, and I can vote for that one
- >>share.. IT might soon mean more than being able to vote in the US elections..
- >>
- > What an entirely frightening prospect. I will not give up my democratic
- > rights, compromised as they may be, to such economic voting without a
- > fight. As to controlling large corps by becoming a share holder, there
- > are too many shares to have an effect and if the policies that am I am
- > trying to affect relate to damage the company is doing to others, then
- > that method should not be necessary.
- >
- > Do you find such control by mega-corps any less fightening than
- > the distant political control that you complain about?
- >>
- >>Michael Adams
- >>Alias: Morgoth/Ghost Wheel
- >>nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu
- >
- >
- > --
- > ==============================================================================
- > A thought for the holidays:
- > "Wine is living proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy"
- > - Benjamin Franklin dean@vexcel.com
-
- What is the difference between having a voting share in a company and having a
- vote as a citizen in the US? not much, other than you get the vote in
- a democracy for "FREE?"... OR do we get it for free..
-
- YEs I know both do not sound appealing when they both are so far away from my
- residence.. Im on the opposite side of the US from Washington, DC and
- we sometimes get no respect. After all the election for the President was over
- even before we got to vote..
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- Time for the Nome national forest to grow.. (we take old xmass trees and
- put them out on the ice, its a real fun thing to do).
-
- I know I might get more repect if I had more shares (voting that is) than
- I do from the FED.. After all in some corps you can actually get rid
- of the President beofre his term is up.. (grin)..
-
- True voting against the company can eb a real pain, maybe that is the
- difference.. OR is it?
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