Talk:Milo Minderbinder

message: milo was one of the three (or four) to get out of flying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wblakesx (talk • contribs) 22:14, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Got out of flying 

message: What about the eggs from Sicily? That was a major plot point about how Milo sold them for less than he bought them, and yet made a profit. 203.26.177.2 16:17, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, that's it! I had been wondering that myself for a while. 68.168.80.4 22:27, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eggs from Sicily 

message: I added a segment about how Milo's catch-phrase, "What's good for M&M enterprises is good for the country", which ironically mirrors a phrase Mussolini used a lot, "What's good for Fiat is good for Italy". Might just be me, but there is definetly a link between the two, especially since the squadron is in Italy during World War 2...
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:This is actually not a reference to Fiat/Italy/Mussolini, but to the U.S. and GM, see Heller quote in interview cited. --Minderbinder-de (talk) 09:07, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The quote attributed to Charlie Wilson is a common misquote. What Wilson said in his testimony was: "For years I thought that what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa." (See https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Erwin_Wilson) The actual quote, however, is not as pithy as the misquote, which is why the misquote is used everywhere. MaxwellPerkins (talk) 22:24, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "What's good for...." 

message: The lack of reliable, third-party sources for this entry is almost total. The article needs a significant make-over to rise to wiki standards. It is now almost pure OR. The Gnome (talk) 20:34, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: In comparison to other Catch 22-character articles, this article should be fine now. I have notified The Gnome one month ago to take another look, with no reaction yet. So I have removed the flags now. --Minderbinder-de (talk) 09:26, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: I removed the laughable "portrait" for want of a better word. --Minderbinder-de (talk) 21:55, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amateur Art 

message: Milo's enterprise is set up like a government-sponsored enterprise. Milo produces nothing. He takes from others and claims it is for their own good. Compare M&M Enterprises to Fannie Mae, or better yet, Social Security. The politicians take money from paychecks and spend it immediately to win their own re-elections and to enrich themselves. With one hand they write an IOU from "ourselves" (tax-payers) to "ourselves"(tax-spenders). And "everyone has a share." Milo's scheme eventually goes broke, and everyone with a "share" is out of luck. 
This article is mostly unattributed opinion, and in my opinion, mostly wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.36.150.245 (talk) 05:25, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: So investment banking, import/export, shipping, financial services, arbitrage, and all of the other manifestations of a successful advanced capitalist economy are actually "not capitalism", because they produce nothing. Got it. Adam Smith might actually agree, but no modern businessman, economist, theorist, or talk-radio defender of capitalism would (nor would any critic of capitalism). --157.131.246.136 (talk) 01:45, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a parody of capitalism (not even corrupt crony-capitalism)