Fwd: [lbo-talk] the petro-thusians have their moment

[martin]

The failure of capitalism to deliver is the same as a failure in any 
system vulnerable to greed and power - the character of the employer 
(credibility). I don't see the difference between the blame you ascribe 
to capitalism and the muslims who had the fundamentalist intransigence 
problem. It would be wonderful if we could wait until we've become a 
classless global society, and I'd be glad of the 'bearded one' coming 
down off the shelf and pitching in. While your experience (and my own) 
suggests further failure, I wouldn't want to discourage anyone from 
looking for solutions to issues that I see as critical, simply because 
of their delivery method.

Martin

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> From: John Thornton <jthorn65 at mchsi.com>
> Date: September 22, 2004 6:51:00 PM PDT
> To: mschiller at pobox.com
> Subject: Fwd: Re: [lbo-talk] the petro-thusians have their moment
>
> Profit driven market based solutions to housing have ensured everyone 
> has equal access to housing. Profit driven market based solution to 
> food have ensured that everyone has enough to eat. Profit driven 
> market based solutions to health-care have ensured that everyone has 
> equal access to health-car. Profit driven market based solutions to 
> jobs have ensured that everyone has equal access to jobs. Gee, with a 
> track record like this why would I doubt for one moment that profit 
> driven market based solutions would provide everyone equal access to 
> solutions to environmental problems and dislocations?