NP - Toryism (Austerity) Isn't Working.

[Ian Livingston]

In the meantime, a little well-directed activism can't hurt the dying star
of the Industrial Revolution.

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:

> Well, if capitalism can't adjust to accommodate the changes imposed by
> overpopulation, it'll fail soon enough. Let it go ahead and rot in the hell
> from whence it sprung.
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> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Another Econ Nobelist dittos in.....same book publisher even.
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>> http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/11176-qpolitics-is-at-the-root-of-the-problemq
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>>   *From:* alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
>> *To:* pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> *Sent:* Saturday, April 28, 2012 9:16 AM
>>
>> *Subject:* Re: NP - Toryism (Austerity) Isn't Working.
>>
>>
>> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/apr/28/wall-street-leviathan/?pagination=false
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>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > If McCain had been elected and followed the exact same economic
>> policies as Obama, the outrage would be similar to the widespread Democrat
>> critique of W. Both parties are funded by the same large corporate
>> interests. Obama's handing of the financial meltdown amounted to the
>>  cowardly cover-up of a massive fraud via the transfer of public money and
>> power , with no strings attached to the criminals who had perpetrated the
>> fraud that crashed the economy. It involved massive violations of mortgage
>> and securities laws. To say that the banks "paid back" these "loans" is
>> profoundly dishonest,  and to say they saved the main street economy is a
>> lie. Krugman's defense of the New Deal reforms is admirable but
>> inapplicable to the current Democratic party. His refusal to economically
>> account for the devastations of a depleted, acidified, algal blooming, oil
>> spilled ocean or the falling aquifers, or the devastations of global
>> warming, or the health effects of the consumer lifestyle,  reduces him  to
>> a party hack arguing for the lesser of evils. Essentially he is still
>> addicted to flawed Keynesian ideas that refuse to consider the biosphere as
>> part of  economic reality.
>> >
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> --
> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
> the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
> reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
> groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
> urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
>



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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