NP but Catch-22

[rich]

William Gaddis:

I’m frequently seen in the conservative press as being out there on
the barricades shouting “down with capitalism!” I do see it in the end
as really the most workable system we’ve produced. So what we’re
talking about is not the system itself, but its abuses, I don’t mean
criminal but the abundant abuses just within the letter of the law.

“Can't you see you go public and all these people owning you want is
dividends and running their stock up, you don't give them that and
they sell you out, you do and some bunch of vice presidents some place
you never heard of like the ones that turned this out, this wood
product they call it, they spot you and launch an offer and all of a
sudden you're working for them trimming and cutting and finally
bringing in people to turn something out they don't care what the hell
it is, there's no pride in their work because what you've got them
turning out nobody could be proud of in the first place.”--from JR



On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Apr 28, 2010, at 5:34 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>
>> great minds quote the same sources...
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> The artists get it down right:
>>
>> Yesterday's grilled Goldman execs were foreseen by Heller in Catch-22 in
>> one right-on way
>>
>> Milo Minderbinders, buying and selling to himself, bombing his own
>> squadron............
>
> Wasn't Catch-22 a major inspiration for GR?
>