Paul Cockshott wrote: >My suggestions for creating jobs would be: >1. Measures to substantially raise the share of national income > going in wages... >2. Oblige the federal reserve... >3. Stop capital flight... >4. Introduce a national scheme of healthcare... Are these suggestions directed to a REPUBLICAN congress or to a DEMOCRATIC president? Or perhaps the CEO's of Fortune 500 corporations would be more interested in the general drift? MY suggestion is that progressive economic policy recommendations are measures that meet *at least one* of the following criteria: A. The government of the day could adopt the measure because it furthers one or more of their own objectives. B. The government of the day could be pressured to adopt the measure -- against its wishes -- because the government would lose credibility if it failed to do so. C. Progressive organizations could begin implementing the measure without endorsement or funding from the government or corporations. Anything else is an "armchair" solution, also known as monday morning quarterbacking. Tom Walker knoW Ware Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mindlink.net/knoWWare/
