[Chris] > Excellent interview I thought. The main thing that I don't > understand why > Platt and the other far-right people on this forum can see is the > basically > the first thing that they say in this interview. > > The unchecked capitalist society of which the US stands as the > utmost and > most far driven example of is a society that, regardless of actual > institutionalisation by any government or fixed social structure, is > a society where the social level remains predominant. There can be no > question in anyone's mind that the consumer-culture that drives both > individuals and entire nations to take the most rash actions in order to sustain it, > is a system that is totally, and fundamentally a product of what the MOQ > identifies as social level.
Chris and all A few weeks back a friend emailed 2 photos, one showing sarah palin in front of a big decked out motorcycle and another showing Obama with a helmet on pedaling his commuter bicycle. Sure one photo is a lot more appealing than the other. But if you stop and think about it, one photo is a lot more environmentally friendly than the other. then I ask the following question, when you hear politician say the following sentence " addiction to Foreign oil", which word in that sentence do you consider a problem. to most people the word foreign is the issue and not the word addiction. After all they see it as our oil under their sand. the unfortunate part, free market capitalism is by far the better of all alternatives, as apposed to socialism or communism. that being said, when a failure happens in a free market, socialist responses, such as government bail out, should not happen. the reason we keep seeing such economic disasters, is that while we claim to champion free market, the reality is that it's free market for the little guy while it is socialist market for the big guy. Foe example when a pharmaceutical company lobbies for the government to intervene on its behalf to stop cheaper drugs to come in from Canada, that is one way socialized medicine. it helps the big corporation while preventing the little guy from obtaining heath care at an affordable price. So much for free market. Oh yeah they will tell you that they are doing that to ensure the quality of your medications. Stewardship is a word that I have mentioned before. Stewardship on the part of the big guy, but of course we keep hearing that they have obligation toward their share holders, which is your 401K. So they got us running this crazy treadmill. Few manage to see it. I have friends bragging when they show me their new automobiles and what it has cost them. My answer is the following: Every $10K i can put away each year, translates into retirement a year earlier. So the difference between that BMW and Honda is about 3 years. I would like to retire and travel without the use of a walker or a wheel chair, what are your plans? Boy, the look on their face, it's priceless. Khaled ____________________________________________________________ Click to get affordable Health Insurance. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3m3B8nIW37WDPzE5oa2eV8sXQ9l82mtRRMfrltcD29RxOyCI/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
