Ed Weick wrote: > Chris, can't anyone ever be naive? Must everyone do things out of a cynical > self-interest?
If Sachs & Soros would be naive, they wouldn't be so rich. How can you be so naive as to think they are? > What Sachs and a few senior Russian officials did at the > time was try to convert Russia into an ownership economy. ...with the purpose of privatizing the state assets into the hands of a few very rich. In the neo-con scheme, they do this everywhere, and do it by force in those countries that resist (like Iraq and Yugoslavia). Recommended book: "Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire". > Shares in the > state's productive assets were given to people on the assumption that they > would keep them as owners of important chunks of Russia. Rather, the assumption was that big private owners will get ever richer by usury. > It didn't work out as intended. It did. > Sharp operators went around buying up the shares, often for a > bottle of vodka, and the scheme was a total failure. The scheme worked as planned. Alcohol and other drugs have worked very well in earlier settings too (NAm Natives, Opium wars, modern West etc.). Note how Soros & Co. push drug legalization (e.g. with www.drugpolicy.org ). > The intentions were good, if foolish Yours may be. But S & S's intentions are bad and very professional. Chris _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
