[lbo-talk] Oil & Russia

[Chris Doss]

BTW I know I've said this before, but the Western
Left's attitude toward Putin baffels me. The man has
precided over a 70% (70%!!!) rise in real wages during
his 6 years in power. And yet he is continuously
denounced as an enemy of the people in Zmag and
elsewhere. It makes no sense. It makes me want to hit
my head on my desk in utter disbelief. There is a
Wirstschaftwunder going on here that the left seems to
be completely ignoring.

Now, if Putin spoke Spanish and engaged in
anti-imperialist rhetotic, it might be a different
story. ;)

--- Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote:


> how fast is inflation happening? if the oil price
> were to go down by,
> say, 30% for a few years, how would the Docs fare?
> 
> On 4/15/06, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > You know, these things kind of sneak up on you
> > gradually so you don't notice the overall scale of
> the
> > change when you're emersed in it. But I was
> > impressively reminded today of just how enormous
> the
> > gap is behind the Russian economy in 2000 and
> today.
> > The wife of my coworker's is a medical assistant
> at a
> > Moscow public hospital. In 2000, the average
> monthly
> > wage of doctors in her hospital was about $80.
> >
> > Today, it is $1,200...
> 
> --
> Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual
> freedom in the presence
> of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles
> 
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