Here is some background that hopefully illuminates why the G8 is considering a proposal to the EU parlament take over of the Greek government by fiat:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/17/europe-banks-brink-ifr-idUSL5E8GHGBR20120517 This is the large scale version of the state of Michigan take over of Detroit city government. Since these ideas spread, I think I can expect a similar agenda in California sometime soon. Brown's cut backs in MediCal have nearly cost one severely disable (SPD) guy in San Diego his life. For a limited number of SPD they need 24hr/day attendents around to help them live independently His name is Raul Carranza. If you have respiratory problems one of the routines you need is clearing the lungs of liquid and a daily routine use of an inhaled steroid to reduce inflamation. If these routines are not carried out, the lungs become infected in the wet, dark, warm petrie dish environment of the lungs, you get pneumonia and you die. within hours. Now that is an extreme case and it can be treated for much less than ICU hospitalization. Pull back a little to see the larger implications. Why should the non-disabled care? Because the SPD are the canaries. When they drop dead, you are going to be next, sooner than later. You do not need to be disabled. The very young and the old suffer similar problems, so if you have young children under five and aging parents over 70 this same regime of death applies to your family. Higher than usual developed world mortality rates tell the story in numbers. The process is that the most vulnerable mortality rates go up and constrict circling around the 15-35 range where fewer health problems occurr---but higher prison terms occurr. This is the prime age work force when the costs of labor are the least. There is no conspiracy, but the remorseless logic of capital with the single mantra of maximization of profit with the acceleration factor to turn stable percentages into escalating percentage curves. With some elaborated facts and reasoning you begin to see Capitalism is a death machine, not as metaphor, but as reality. Chris Hedges is right, although he sounds like an hysteric much of the time. Capitalism has almost succeeded in killing us and the planet. I hesitate to mention there is a spiritual dimension, that the only life covered planet we know is under certainty of destruction. You don't need to be religious to understand, oblivion is forever, and that is what Capitalism is producing, oblivion. Our masters and many of our delusional fellows have become soldiers in the armies of Thanatos. This of course sounds crazy. But consider that the number one killer of US military personnel is suicide. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
