[clue-talk] Wow, Card's a little political...

[Angelo Bertolli]

Collins Richey wrote:
> Yup, the correct term is "disaster socialism" - we'll steal from
> someone else to give to you, but never forget who is in control! Also,
> I don't understand what "neoliberal stuff" is in the first place. Is
> this old (ie non-socialist) liberalism or new liberal socialist
> claptrap or just proof you ran out of gas and were looking for a
> catchy term. Since you're promoting Chomsky (a superb linguist and
> elegant but lousy socialist), it may well be the latter.
>   

What choice does a society have except to rely upon socialism to rescue 
it when capitalism screws it up?  Or haven't you heard about the $700 
billion that we have to give the banks?  I really don't see how anyone 
can sit here and try the Reagan-era tactics of demonizing a word (like 
they did with communism, which to be fair required a totalitarian regime 
to implement so it was kind of bad) when we've just gone through 
providing relief for banking institutions.  And yes, we have to do it.  
At least most sane people don't want a completely free market at the 
cost of great suffering.

GDP per capita is a statistic doesn't mean anything if one person has 
all the money:  you're still a poor country.