Ernest Schaal <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:
> in article cb08lr$4i4$3@news.Stanford.EDU, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net at
> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote on 6/19/04 11:33 AM:
>> 
>> If the banking system disappeared tomorrow, the poor would be poor.
>> Gates would be MUCH poorer. If the military and police disappeared
>> tomorrow, the poor would still be poor, and in crime-ridden areas.
>> Gates would be in MUCH more danger, likely in a crime-ridden area.

> If the bank system would disappear tomorrow, there would still be some how
> learn to beat the new system of bartering. If the military and police

Which does little to help Gates.

He's left to barter shingles off his home and spare bathroom tiles.

Mike