On 09/12/10 22:05, Jim Devine wrote: > me: >>> does the US power elite (which is heavily influenced by Wall Street >>> and the banks) really care at all about what happens to the US >>> economy? after all, they don't have to live here. > > Doug: >> They do. I doubt many are about to relocate to Shanghai. And they still do >> about half their business here.< > > they can diversify their operations (and their trips) away from the > US. On top of that, and likely more importantly, they can and do live > in enclaves that are very separated from the US that most of us live > in and not dependent on the health of the US economy. In fact, as the > US economy goes down the tubes, it increases the supply of servants to > them.
Look at the example of the Bush family's massive land acquisitions in Paraguay, on top of the world's second biggest aquifer, below a U.S. military base established during Bush II, and neigbouring the vast land owned by Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church, for answers to where the elite can and might relocate to.... -m _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
