The following was sent to my university faculty list by an especially
demented retired business faculty member. Has anyone come across this?
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"I grew up under Marxism. We suffered a lot. You can't find even one
grain of sand in Russia that is socialist. Kyoto has a similar
smell, a very familiar smell. It will become a bureaucratic monster
that will decide what happens in every country, their special quotas
will throw a net over the world economy, and they will decide who
has the right to live and who must die. We called our plans
Gosplans, they were hopeless, they didn't work, but their aim was a
growing economy. Kyoto is like a Gosplan, but it wants to preside
over a declining economy. Kyoto is a death camp. Kyoto is an
economic gulag for the world."
-Andre Illarionov, current economic advisor to Vladimir Putin
Michael A. Lebowitz
Professor Emeritus
Economics Department
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6
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