VL-Hub's monologue

[Paul Mackin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard" <rdonaldson at quesnelbc.com>
To: "Paul Mackin" <mackin.paul at gmail.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: VL-Hub's monologue


> If I understand your comment, you take me to have been referring to trust
> fund babies. I was thinking of retirees who depend on pensions, medical
> benefits, and so on, that evaporate due to corporate mis- and mal- 
> feasance.
> Also, the long-term unemployed and recently downsized out of an income, 
> and
> those just entering the job market.
>
> Richard -- a trust fund free p-lister.

Sorry about the confusion.

I understood what you were saying and agreed wholeheatedly.

My comment was a non sequitur.

P
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>
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Paul Mackin" <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:52 AM
> Subject: Re: VL-Hub's monologue
>
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>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Richard" <rdonaldson at quesnelbc.com>
>> To: "Paul Mackin" <mackin.paul at gmail.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 10:08 PM
>> Subject: Re: VL-Hub's monologue
>>
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>>>
>>> Economic collapse of that order would lead to chaos, and then people
>>> truly
>>> would want order. (Brock's beliefs about what the hippie types really
>>> wanted.) Order at any cost breeds fascism.
>>>
>>> "Would mean a lot more suffering for the weakest of us." Yes, and many
>>> more
>>> people would fall into the category "weakest of us."
>>>
>>> Richard D.
>>
>> My general impression is that not many p-listers have family trusts to
>> rely
>> on.
>>
>> P
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Paul Mackin" <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
>>> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 10:22 AM
>>> Subject: Re: VL-Hub's monologue
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Anger's a lot in the news these days, though in a somewhat different
>>>> context
>>>> than the one Hub is operating in.
>>>>
>>>> How do p-listers feel about allowing the Giants that are too big to 
>>>> fail
>>>> to
>>>> just fail anyway?
>>>>
>>>> Would mean a lot more suffering for the weakest of us.
>>>>
>>>> Probably would mean more p-list unemployment than already exists.
>>>>
>>>> Might mean the country (countries) would end up with REAL fascism like
>>>> Europe in the thirties.
>>>>
>>>> Or is Obama correct?  That it is very dangerous to rule from anger.
>>>>
>>>> If capitalism as we know is ever going to be toppled, now is an
>>>> opportunity
>>>> not to be wasted.
>>>>
>>>> P
>>>>
>>>>
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