Apparently Jooerl you have one of the most common addictions in America, an addiction to being right, maybe an attorney? Think of what would be available to you, if you allowed yourself to see the other side of the issue, even if the other side or position is not your personal truth or the truth. No one is asking you to change your position or mind, but you seem to easily go into "attack" mode on a discussion among adults. It's just an observation of mine.
@PeoriaPatriot :
Well, PP, since you are observing, maybe you can determine what is true here in an absolute sense. I mean, what is truth as opposed to conjecture, in your opinion, regarding the statements that I've challenged? There is no other side or issue here. Something is either true or it is not true. Correct? What is the other side of the issue here as you feel it?
Posters on this thread are writing statements about a company and its execs that are written with a flair of credibility. I should take what they say as credible and move on? Don't comment on it, don't question it? Was I mean or vulgar?
Are these true statements, PP, "Cat execs? All they are concerned about is how much money they can personally make. And they artificially inflate the stock price to do it. Caterpillar the company? The employees? They could care less. The greed is sickening." ?-
If I knew these statements to be true then I wouldn't have challenged them.
May I ask without rebuke for examples of what a poster means or implies about Cat when they post "Gee, remember that place called "Enron"??"?--
I think I know what the implication is. May I ask that poster a question as I did and why they invoked Enron?
If you take for granted that most of what you read any where is somehow true, you're not only naive but you're possibly getting conned in that you believed non-truth as truth. Conjecture isn't truth without substance to back it up. I think that's what I was asking for. No?
My addiction isn't with being right. It's with being factual or accurate. And upon a challenge, none of the posters I responded to could stand by their assertions with facts.