Re: Politically Correct Description of the Third World

[J. van Baardwijk]

At 12:04 10-2-01 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:

> >Because it is not a democracy and therefore doesn't have the same degree of
> >socialism?
>
>Clearly, Cuba is much more of a democracy than the US will ever be.

Well, you keep insisting that the US is *not* a democracy, so Cuba would 
only have to go democratic on one single issue to be "much more of a 
democracy than the US will ever be"...


> >I read in another thread that you label yourself as an economist.
>
>That is what the US Government tells me.

Yeah, but who still believes everything the government says?   <grin>


> >Taxes are used for a variety of expenditures. But the main benefactors of
> >govt expenditure are the rich including the military/industrial complex and
> >oil trans-nationals.
>
>Obviously the poor do not benefit from a strong national defense and cheap
>gasoline.

How *do* the poor benefit from all that? How do the poor benefit from the 
billions of dollars the US spent on defense? After all, money spent on 
weapons can not be spent on helping the poor. And unless the oil companies 
suddenly became noble institutions, I doubt the poor will see much of the 
huge profits of the oil companies.


Jeroen

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