This article below is in line with what I told this list two years ago when I wrote of an American baritone who came to New York to sing a few performances at the Metropolitan Opera from a regular job in a German Opera House. I asked him the difference between America and Europe and he said simply "Heaven and Hell". You can guess where he thought heaven was since he returned to live in Europe, (Germany), with his American family.
I only have one question in all of this mucky muck. Whose responsibility has it been to make America better rather than just grazing in the pasture left from the past generations? What is the legacy this group will leave?* Who are the groups that have risen to the top of the heap this generation but have taken away from rather than adding to the good of the society at large? Who feels no responsibility to America or Americans but "off shores" its funds to avoid taxes and closes its plants to outsource and destroy American cities and families? What is the difference between the economic religion of Europe or Asia and the economic religion of America? Is it the Karma of America that we will become what Africa and Central America has been to us? That it is our guilt that Europe, the father land of most Americans, and Asia the battered, will now feed on America's children? That like Esau in the Hebrew Bible, we gave up our birthright for a cup of soup? I just bought a new bible. It's called "Economics, A streamlined course for Students and Business People" Barron's pub by a prophet from North Carolina State University named Walter J. Wessels. What Mike, myself and some others on this list complain about all makes sense, in this bible. We're just the wrong religion under this economic version of a kind of total "sharia" (but not Islamic) law. The Secular Common and Covenant is a dead goose, cooked and eaten by the current folks who are even patenting corn seed that only lives for one season and then must be purchased again from our owners. "Scarcity is the root of all markets." From the Economic Bible by the North Carolina Prophet Walter Wessels REH *Who's going to pay to replace the beautiful Catskill Mountains with the beauty and the history of America in every hollow? When fracking is done and the water and pristine beauty of the place is destroyed, who will come to vacation in the only cash flow the mountain population has? Would the Swiss or Northern Italians frack their Alps? Who will replace the fresh water, the water that goes to NYCity that is considered the finest municipal water system in America? Energy producers use Oklahoma and Texas as examples of how fracking doesn't destroy things. But has anyone tasted the water in Oklahoma lately that remembers what it once was? The Elderly can live just fine today in the Catskills with its low pollution, its clean water and temperate summer weather. Try vacationing in the summer in Oklahoma or Texas. How are the tar sands working out for the environment and living conditions of Canadaians? REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Gurstein Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 11:27 AM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: [Futurework] FW: <nettime> German slumlords in LA -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patrice Riemens Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 9:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: <nettime> German slumlords in LA Bwo INURA list/ Tino Bucholz hi all, the article below I would not not consider unexpected but crucial information on advanced capitalist re/production. so long..tino ****************************** The U.S.: Where Europe comes to slum http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-meyerson-europeans-2011 0515,0,3990894.story The newest slumlord in Los Angeles is a pillar of German capitalism. Earlier this month, the city attorney's office filed suit against Deutsche Bank, the world's fourth-largest bank, for letting many of the more than 2,000 L.A. homes it has foreclosed on descend into squalor and decay ... slumming in America is fast becoming a business model for some of Europe's leading companies, and they often do things here they would never think of doing at home. These companies - not banks, primarily, but such gold-plated European manufacturers as BMW, Daimler, Volkswagen and Siemens, and retailers such as IKEA - increasingly come to America (the South particularly) because labor is cheap and workers have no rights. In their eyes, we're becoming the new China. Our labor costs may be a little higher, but we offer stronger intellectual property protections and far fewer strikes than our unruly Chinese comrades. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bank-slumlord-20110505,0,58791,full. story L.A. suit calls Deutsche Bank a slumlord Officials charge world's fourth-largest bank with letting foreclosed properties lapse into disrepair. Bank officials say loan servicers are to blame. ............................. [email protected] ........................................ "Even though I have read a lot, I have drunk even more. 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