Brad, You said:
"Perhaps no idea is grand enough to withstand the withering, relentless assault of The New American Dream of universal free-fall economic devolution aka deregulated free or at least all-consuming markets." This reads well, but what does it mean? Apparently you are in favor of money being extracted from the pockets of ordinary French workers to give to - for example - the farmers. Indeed, you are in favor of special privilege granted to those who buy politicians - you know like the American experience which you twist into "deregulated free markets" but which are actually regulated by those who buy and sell Democrats and Republicans. Also, what are "all-consuming markets"? Harry ******************************* Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 818 352-4141 ******************************* > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:futurework- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad McCormick, Ed.D. > Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 9:43 AM > To: Ed Weick > Cc: FUTUREWORK (E-mail); Cordell,Arthur: ECOM > Subject: Re: [Futurework] Italy and the Euro > > Ed Weick wrote: > > > Almost everything you read about the EU these days suggests a > lot of > > disenchantment with the leadership and a fear of Turks and > Polish > > plumbers. The EU is a grand idea, but grand ideas don't always > put > > bread on the table or protect your special interests. > > > > [snip] > > I agree that the EU is "a grand idea". I am reminded of > a certain definition of Europe: > > "The struggle against everything whose only claim to > dignity is its materiality, to refuse to be merely > a passive and determined element in the order of Creation this > seems to me the primordial virtue which transformed > an Asian peninsula into Europe" - Carlo Schmid > > Perhaps no idea is grand enough to > withstand the withering, relentless assault of The New American > Dream of > universal free-fall economic devolution aka deregulated free > or at least all-consuming markets. > > In any case, even if the Euro banknotes are not as esthetically > appealing as some of the currency they replaced, the U.S. Treasury > would, I think, do well to try to imitate them. America's > recent bank notes look like something seen thru a > distorting lens. Our old banknote designs has no > esthetic merit, but at least all the parts of the design were > [size-wise] in a kind of balance. > <http://www.ellopos.net/politics/eu_schmid.html> > \brad mccormick > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------------ ----- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > Futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca > http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list Futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
