Profit and loss

[calbert at tiac.net]

Mr Weaver:

> >Profits allow one to attack poverty,
> 
> Profits allow you to attack poverty that you have created, but even
> then you don't have to, giving is voluntary y'understand. A-and it is
> permissible to turn a profit - modest of course ;-) - on those
> donations, tho of course the profits are greater from war promotion.


....and yet, looking back on the 20th century, the greatest examples 
of "created poverty" are, by orders of magnitude

1) the famine in the Soviet Union following Stalin's program of forced 
collectivization of agriculture.....the toll stands in the 10s of 
MILLIONS......

2) the famine in the PRC subsequent to "the Great Leap Forward", 
again the toll in the 10s of MILLIONS

btw, note that neither Uncle Joe nor Uncle Mao missed a meal.....

we would have to follow with some examples from Africa, and last but 
not least, the great on going decline of Cuba...

> >good intentions don't feed
> >squat...
> 
>   as we see from the history of capitalism, whose good intentions,
>   trickle 
> down theories and all, have proved not only that good intentions don't
> feed squat but you must kill, maim and otherwise destroy millions of
> lives if you are to tackle poverty the capitalist way.

Kill maim and destroy millions to have your way.........wait a minute, 
that sound awful familiar........Beria.....paging Lavrenti Beria........

 "Which brings
> us back to P p p p ... "

yup.....


love,
cfa
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