[snip]Not really sure of what you are arguing here, Harry. On the one hand, you seem to be arguing that work can always be found, and on the other that the economy is so inadequate that there are large numbers of people in trouble. I think one has to understand that the economy responds to influences that are independent of government, but that government policy has a large bearing on how it will respond. It would seem that, right now, the US economy (perhaps the global economy) has taken a rather serious downturn and people are losing their jobs and their livelihood because of this, in many cases having to turn to church operated charities. What policies governments implement can slow or accelerate this process, though not likely reverse it. What the Bush administration is doing would appear to be accelerating it. It is almost as though Bush, through his tax cuts, has consciously decided to let the economy sink, abandoning the poor, but rewarding the rich. One could speculate that he foresees two US economies, a happy one for the rich but a very difficult one for the poor. We may be witnessing the emergence (unmasking?) of a class system with a wealthy nobility at the top, and a growing lumpenproletariat at the bottom. Of course there will always be peasants and artisan in between trying to move up, but deathly concerned about sliding to the bottom, and willing to take wage cuts to try to stay somewhere close to where they are.
I think that the "people in the middle" will be the petty bourgeoisie --> the people who brought Adlof Hitler to power in the 1930s in Germany (Yes, I know: NIH...).
But, seriously, I think George W Bush could do Hitler one better and get the victims of *his* economic poplicies to suport his dictatorship, unlike Hitler who at least made the trains run on time (Yes, I know, that was Moussolini...).
Maybe George W Bush really is The Second Coming. After all, Saddam Hussein was the Anti-Christ -- speaking of whom, where *IS* Saddam? And where is Osama? But Runsfeld answered the latter question at a press conference a few days ago:
I think he is either alive or dead.
(A or not A == true)
Right on!
\brad mccormick
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