http://www.investmentrarities.com/bestofjimcook.html BEST OF JIM COOK August 2, 2004 BACK DOOR SOCIALISM "Socialist practices are now so ingrained in our thinking, so customary, so much a part of our mores, that we take them for granted." Leonard Read, 1951 Governments and socialists the world over have had to recognize that when government bureaucrats run corporations, they fail. Their new strategy is to let business stay private, but suck out its marrow with high taxes and micromanage businesses, via regulation, to further their socialist goals. An example would be the abolition of merit through hiring quotas, discrimination suits, racial preferences and so...