Lawry wrote: > I talked with Soros once. He deplored the system that allowed him to make > a killing through opportunistic currency trading that amounted to artificial > attacks on vulnerable currencies and people. And then he said that a > regulatory regime was essential if the harm caused by these attacks was to > be stopped. And then he further added that until such a regime were was put > in place, which would apply to him as well as everyone else who was engaged > in these practices, he would have to continue to exercise his trading > practices. I do believe that there was a part of him that regretted this > situation, though not enough to voluntarily and alone stop the practice.
The concept of regret on the part of Soros doesn't make sense -- if he'd regret it, he would stop his practice. After all, unlike nearly 100% of the people, he is not obliged to continue making money for a living, because he already has accumulated more than enough. This wasn't regret (crocodile tears come to mind) -- it was simply an attempt to shift the blame from himself to the "regulatory regime". Exactly the same excuse that Gurstein used today, to defend predators: Not the fox is to blame that the hens are dead, but the farmer is to blame because he left a hole in the henhouse fence unfixed. This glamorizes the fox as clever/smart while painting the farmer as incompetent/stupid. Would you expect such a painting from those who hold public office and emphasize that the state is good? Or are they in fact allies of the fox? As the New Statesman quoted Soros in 2003: | Asked about the havoc his currency speculation caused to Far Eastern | economies in the crash of 1997, Soros replied: "As a market participant, | I don't need to be concerned with the consequences of my actions." | Strange words from a man who likes to be regarded as the saviour of | civil society and who rails in print against "market fundamentalism". > Enough though to prompt him to engage in philanthropic initiatives such > as the Open Society. When you take a closer look, this so-called philanthropy is a veiled way of maximizing his RoI and/or implementing his sinister personal agenda. For example, by the OSI's role in the East, in order to plunder it. Or euthanasia programs like "Death in America" and the drug-pushing campaigns. Considering how much money Soros puts into pushing for the legalization of marijuana, which is a gateway drug to harder illegal drugs, one may wonder what stake Soros has in the market of hard illegal drugs... Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
