Jim Devine notes that the Orange County mess is to be "solved" by cutting public sector wages and services for the poor. These are the uses of crisis. Wanna bet that the Mexican crisis and resulting "bailout" will result in the sale of at least parts of Pemex to US interests? Control of oil has been one of the sacredest of cows even throughout the period of Salianstroika - but Big Oil wants a piece of Mexico, and by god, they're gonna get it. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)
