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Letters to Ian Fletcher

December 21st, 2012 · 5 Comments

He really is a toad and deserves both of these.

Query: if the CPA benefits when non-CPAers invest in the CPA, why do you think that America suffers when non-Americans invest in America? That is, can you explain why the productivity of you and your colleagues at the CPA will rise if I make a net investment in the CPA while the productivity of you, me, and other American workers will fall if someone from Toronto or Tokyo or Timbuktu makes a net investment in America?

There is one good thing we can say about it. If Fletcher has to run an email round robin to try and raise $50k then there’s a lot fewer fools funding him than I had thought there were. I had thought that his lot were the type to spend that on the mineral water bill.

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  • 1 dearieme // Dec 21, 2012 at 11:26 am

    You coulda helped us by a preliminary remark explaining “CPA”. Criminal Practitioners of America? Chartered Pillocks Association? Caribbean and Pacific Agency?

  • 2 MellorSJ // Dec 21, 2012 at 12:16 pm

    Communist Protectionist Assholes?

  • 3 MellorMJ // Dec 21, 2012 at 3:43 pm

    Consumerised Pink Avocados

  • 4 Matthew L // Dec 22, 2012 at 7:09 am

    To be fair, dearieme, expanding the acronym doesn’t actually help. It’s one of those meaningless feelgood terms. Coalition of Protectionist Arseholes is a much more useful name.

  • 5 MellorSJ // Dec 22, 2012 at 9:43 am

    And descriptive.

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