At 11:15 04/10/2010 -0400, REH wrote:
Heres one below:
Keith says strata is built in. That is very English as we Americans who
know our history are aware. Those are the Americans that did not support
England in the Falklands.
There were many in England who didn't support the Falklands War, including
me. And, as usual these days, it was all about oilfields actually. We --
the punters -- didn't know about these then but the oil companies and the
British government certainly knew. Most of those living in the Falklands
would give their right arm to leave the God forsaken place and settle
elsewhere if they had the money. We could have given each family a million
pounds or each farmer a nice farm in New Zealand and it still wouldn't have
cost anywhere near what it did. Everybody would have left except a few
ornithologists.
One of the most cowardly acts ever carried out in wartime by any nation in
any war took place in the Falklands War. As an ancient clapped-out
Argentinian destroyer, the Belgrano, was taking troops away from the island
as fast it could, and although it was well outside the battle zone, a
sneaky British nuclear submarine torpedoed the ship and left over 500 to
drown. Didn't stop to pick any survivors up.
Mrs Thatcher's finest hour, that was. But one of this country's most
shameful acts ever -- and that's saying something.
We supported the Monroe Doctrine. I say strata, in reality, is competence
based and that neo-classic economics creates false stratas that may
initially be competence based, if not just dumb luck, but by the second
and third generations have decayed and become nothing more that
speculative parasites on the structure. Even Warren Buffet speaks of
it. What are my children going to be? All he sees are people who are
simply motivated to consume and spend with no creativity, like the
aristocracy of England. America was an answer to that but the wealthy
have torn that to shreds.
But the wealthy are also the patrons of the arts.
KSH
Keith Hudson, Saltford, England
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