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HOW NORTH DAKOTA'S BANKING SYSTEM COULD HELP US GET OUT OF THIS MESS
MASSACHUSETTS HEALTHCARE PLAN FAILING
OBAMA BACKS DOWN ON BARRING SINGLE PAYER BACKERS
STUPID DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN ADVISOR TRICKS
THE BILL MOYERS YOU DON'T HEAR ABOUT
THE PROBLEM WITH LEAVING TROOPS IN IRAQ
WHY IS AIG SO IMPORTANT
CREDIT CARD USURY ATTRACTING HILL ATTENTION
DUNCAN WANTS TO CUT STUDENT'S SUMMER VACATION
TIME TO STOP BEING AFRAID OF ISRAEL
FROM OUR OVERSTOCKED ARCHIVES: ON MILTON FRIEDMAN
JROTC TEACHES SCHOOL CHILDREN HOW TO KILL EACH OTHER
HIGH SPEED, HIGH COST, HIGH INCOME RAIL
LAKE MEAD: THE GLOBAL WATER CRISIS COMES HOME
OBAMA'S MANY VIEWS ON MARIJUANA
PASSINGS: PAUL HARVEY
POLICY WITHOUT PROMISE
SENATE APPROVES TOY VOTE FOR CAPITAL COLONY
posted by TPR | 3:21 PM
2 Comments:
CREDIT CARDS
Our credit card company just doubled our APR although we did nothing to deserve a penalty. No late payments. Nada! We asked them why and they said, "Because we can!" What's cop code for a simultaneous double rape?
I suppose we're suppose to be greatfull for the "tax cut," that won't even cover the Vaseline. Geitner and all his "Masters of the Universe" pals don't understand that the math doesn't work ?
We certainly don't like being stimulated this way.
KARL MARX IS BACK
Of course, he's back! People don't forget about just how insightful he was
about the way capitalism works and doesn't work.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, when everyone was claiming that this was proof that Marx was wrong, I insisted, "Don't you believe a word of it." Capitalism has not changed. All that has happened is that Lenin's revolution, which he said could not survive if the major industrial powers did not follow suit, has failed.
Under the conditions that followed the Bolshevik seizure of power, including the inevitable economic blockade and a bitter civil war during which France, Britain and the US invaded Soviet territory, it is only slightly short of astounding that the Soviet Union became a major industrial power in its own right.
Maybe this time around, we'll get it right.
Leninism failed in large part because it was nothing more than fascism in a different wrapper, just as capitalism is.
Had they been actual socialists - concerned with equality and a good life for all rather than with privilege for themselves - the story might have been very different.
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