I feel compelled to respond to this one. It seems contradictory for people to claim to support open source software and not a more open and free society. Transmeta software has been significantly financed by George Soros, a man whom I greatly admire.
Soros's philosophical/political/social/economic influence is primarily from Karl Popper (open society), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper whose view on the world is 180 degrees opposite of the current administrations main influence, Leo Strauss (neo-con/Machiavellian) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss I typically do not respond to these types of discussions on the TriLUG list, but I am protesting some rhetoric perpetuated here. The "Republicans are trying to get rid of taxes" is a only partially true statement. Let me elaborate. The current executive administration (neo-cons) are attempting to bankrupt state and federal governments in their order to privatize the world (liberalization of capital) It is not nearly so simple as the "Adam Smith Wealth of Nations Economics 101" view. The model was presented in 1776, and it does not very well serve us any more. I am co-chair at my church on a congregation-wide project to help people understand issues behind free trade and economic globalization. Read this article written by George Soros in order to understand the dogmatic extreme of the "free market" argument: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97feb/capital/capital.htm Note that this is a 1997 article. Soros' understanding and intuition amazes me. So the way in which "the Republicans are trying to get rid of taxes" is through implementing the grand libertarian scheme of privatization of everything. Private education (vouchers) privatized water, utilities etc.etc.etc. The most efficient way to do this is by bankrupting local, state and federal governments. They'll have to "sell off" everything when they liquidate (like chapter 11 bankruptcy). http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9733 cut to paragraph title "The Pursuit of Inequality and Insolvency" This is why we now have record-high spending, record-high debt and yet are providing enormous tax breaks for the wealthiest 1% of the population while simultaneously maintaining massive corporate welfare programs. (e.g., the tax credit to M$ for European sales posted here recently) http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0403020255mar02,1,7823792.story ?coll=chi-news-hed ,or goolenews on "microsoft tax europe" for other stories) Don't be fooled by the rhetoric. I have more links to back up everything I've written here. Read up, check the facts, and don't drink the koolaid. Marty ============================================================== -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roy Vestal Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 3:41 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT - tech jobs on the rise in RTP? > > I guess maybe the economy *is* strong enough to withstand those > > Republican's filling their pockets with our Tax money... :-) > > ...correction, our children's money. Our kids are going to pay this > back. Or maybe we can all give up SS. > > Even the congressional R's are getting a little wigged-out on the > recent budget deficit. A recent poll suggested that folks consider > D's more fiscally responsible. Myself, I think they'll both spend > money they don't have just as fast as the other on the exact same > things. > > (This is marked OT isn't it? <checking> yep, it is.) > -- > Mike Actually, the Republicans are trying to get rid of taxes. The Democrats are fighting it since they seem to have the belief that the Gov't knows how to best spend my money vs capitalism be allowed to move freely. The more in my pocket, the more I spend, the more businesses make, the more the economy grows, the more businesses make jobs, the more people are employed, the more money that the Gov't gets in taxes. Simple Economy 101 stuff. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
