Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC (mostly): Ground Zero: Madison, Wisconsin, USA's Cairo continues

2011-02-21 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/21/2011 02:48 AM, Horace Heffner wrote: Carl Marx's dire prediction of the inevitability of a worker's revolution failed to come true in the USA because he didn't anticipate the remedial role of labor unions. Thanks, Horace! I've never run across that insight before -- it's, like, an

[Vo]:OFF TOPIC (mostly): Ground Zero: Madison, Wisconsin, USA's Cairo continues

2011-02-20 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
If you're not interested in the on-going struggle pertaining to two diametrically opposing political POVs vying to steer the direction our economy may soon have to contend with I would recommend skipping this Off-Topic post. Actually, IMHO, it's not entirely off-topic. I hope our planet may soon

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC (mostly): Ground Zero: Madison, Wisconsin, USA's Cairo continues

2011-02-20 Thread Peter Gluck
Dear Steven, Please, you and Wisconsin accept my empathy, we have similar problems here in Romania but at a more existential level. Your message has helped me to find the simplest explanation and the most general one- of the Crisis and I have already published it at my Ego-Out blog. Best wishes

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC (mostly): Ground Zero: Madison, Wisconsin, USA's Cairo continues

2011-02-20 Thread Harry Veeder
12:51:36 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC (mostly): Ground Zero: Madison, Wisconsin, USA's Cairo continues Dear Steven, Please, you and Wisconsin accept my empathy, we have similar problems here in Romania but at a more existential level. Your message has helped me to find the simplest

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC (mostly): Ground Zero: Madison, Wisconsin, USA's Cairo continues

2011-02-20 Thread Horace Heffner
Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana Carl Marx's dire prediction of the inevitability of a worker's revolution failed to come true in the USA because he didn't anticipate the remedial role of labor unions. Also, the turn of the 20th century was