Cheers, Adam.
Perhaps people are starting to notice how profit motive drains the
meaning out of their lives. Kinda sucks to be an ant farming for the
corporate lords. Funny how most of the rest of the world is more and
more apprehensive towards American Democracy.
I just went to DC for the first time. I was awestruck by the
monuments, the words of Thomas Jefferson, the Spirit of Democracy set
in stone. Amazing to think that in little more than 200 years our
government could be so far removed from those honorable principles.
Adam Smith presumed that the marketplace would regulate itself
through morality, good faith, and responsibility. Corporate America
seems to feel that those principles stand in the way of making the
real bucks. How much more can they co-opt and commodify? Get your
copyrights in quick so you can hold on to your piece of the pie.
Health care, public programs, pensions, social security - these are
now regarded as worthless unless they can turn a profit.
Ah, socialized medicine. Siestas. 6 week vacation leave. I hear Spain
is nice this time of year...
At 2:35 PM -0700 7/25/02, Adam L. Beberg wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Tom wrote:
>
>>  "Around the world, there is a growing sense that democracy has not
>>  delivered development" Sakiko Fukuda-Parr UN report author
>
>Or perhaps it is the unregulated and out of control capitalism used as a
>tool to concentrate wealth and form a greed-based society?
>
>I notice the top 5 have a good amount of socialism in their systems to
>regulate the capitalism, especially in things like health care and
>education.
>
>Just look at our health care - no insurance = no care. Or education - gimme
>my voucher so I can get my kids out of the system while their IQ is still
>over 20.
>
>South American countries are currently figuring out just where this
>greed-based system ends up, and are looking for a way out.
>
>It was a fun ride tho wasnt it?
>
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