From: Mario Goveia > I live in the USA which has perspicaciously become an economic > and military superpower by gladly using other people's brains > and other people's money and every resident, whether citizen > or not, is provided with all the considerable constitutional > rights, other than the right to vote.
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:32:17 -0400 From: "Bosco D'Mello" <[email protected]> (A)merican (I)nternational (G)reed comes to mind! Alongwith (G)overnment (M)otors. Oh....Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley, CitiCorp, Goldman Sachs, BankAm........its an extensive list [1]....Mario is right.....other people's (read present and future tax-payers') money was used to prop-up the legends of capitalism.....vis-a-vis economic superpower. Mario responds: Actually, the list is very small when compared with the total American economy, and the government bailouts violated the basic principles of capitalism and should not have been implemented. However, as anyone who follows current events would know, none of the selective aberrations mentioned by Bosco have anything to do with the overall long term reality that I was referring to. In addition, it is America's proximity that allows neighbors like Canada and Mexico to benefit from the trade that takes place and spend a pittance on their own defense.
