The Cost Number of the Y2K "Nonevent"is now estimated at around 300 Billion,give or take a"FEW".First,that seems to be a Lot Cash to blow on a "Nonevent".Even if this figure was close and a Lot of Companies bought all new Equipment,my Question is:In whose Warehouse was all that million and millions of Dollars worth of Equipment stored,just ready to be picked off the Shelf?Will the Sales Figures of the Suppliers substanciate the Claims made by the Buyers?Will Koskinens Department be transfered into the Criminal Division of the IRS,to help out, looking for all the Receipts,corporate America will undoubtetly (I hope)produce,buying All that STUFF?Do we have enough room to accomodate all the locked up CEOs,that will get caught with their Pants down,claiming huge tax deductible Expenses,just for setting the Clock back to 1972?What will the Government Tax Shortfall be,because of those Claims,that the working Man has to make up?Will that be taken out of our Social Security Fund or will the Printing Presses be running 26 Hours a Day?The 24 Hour Day seems already be taken up to support the Feeding Frenzie in the Wall Street Corporate IOW Market.Y'all give some Thought,hear?

-- Harvard Remedial School Flunkie (lookout@for.self), February 05, 2000

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Those are great questions to ponder Harvard. Do you have any plans to follow up on them and report anomalous findings? We should be hearing soon about rises in OEM sales as well as turnkey systems to replace those that crashed. I expect the TPTB will be unable to hide increases in business failures and bankruptcy.

-- Michael (mikeymac@uswest.net), February 05, 2000.

It's coming soon!

-- repent (the_end_is_ne@r.now), February 06, 2000.