NP: Noam Chomsky on Corona, Neoliberalism, Trump etc.

[Mark Kohut]

I hate those undefined umbrella labels such as "neoliberalism" by which so
much total condemnation can ge smuggled in. I, a little more literally, a
little more accurate, I argue, would
call it Republican Party free market greed-justifying bullshit to label it
better. Friedman, etc.

and, I am sorry it is easy to roll off so many sentences clearly pointing
out the dysfunctional evils of the current administration and
then raise them to the level of universality...I am afraid that other
neoliberal President Barack Obama did put into place
procedures and plans that handled the ones on his watch and set up for this
one....did we know that it was Repblican Mainer, Susan Collins
who stripped the 850 minion bucks for pandemic preparation from the
stimulus bill...and read Fifth Risk and other first hand accounts of
how the Trump administration threw out the handbooks, threw out everything
and started from scratch dysfunctionally.

There is always more......of course, with little distinction made between
massive criminal negligence and other fallings short, he can ignore
in the Relief bills 1) the dirt achievements of Bernie---it is he who,
rather than the usual unemployment pittance got the extra $600 a week into
the
bill, he and Warren.....Warren (and others)  got the Oversight Committee
into the Mncuchin Watch with a promise---see latter---that she could. and a
top
aide of hers on this very topic has been appointed head....

So easy to read the bad news, and it is rife and in your interview know and
say nothing about the achievements of those you do believe in. What can be
done in politics and is is always harder to understand than the purity of
universal fault-finding.

On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 6:12 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> as far as I see (which is not very far as I readily concede but farther
> (further?) as some) there's only one aspect to the Chomsky quote that might
> prove him wrong: that this catastrophe will lead to another, less profit
> oriented health care system, because it (the catastrophe) shows the
> injustice of it especially in the civilized nations as your and Noam's and
> my and Thomas's countries. Beware of the dead on our streets.
>
> Am Di., 7. Apr. 2020 um 11:45 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
> >:
>
>> Before I even read the piece, which I will, that quote is simply not the
>> case.
>> 1) market signals in general, overall, have shown CLEARLY that the ending
>> and prevention of catastrophe, deaths and
>> ruination are good things even coldly economically.
>>
>> 2) Eliz Warren in her interview with Ezra Klein tells us of a new white
>> paper proving the
>> worst case FOR THE ECONOMY is NOT stopping it wholesale.
>>
>> I see that this is particularly about the ventilator shortage
>> so........but
>> yes, massive cruelty reigns
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 5:35 AM Thomas Eckhardt <
>> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > "Market signals were clear: There’s no profit in preventing a future
>> > catastrophe. "
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-ventilator-shortage-exposes-the-cruelty-of-neoliberal-capitalism/
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