On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:36:15 -0700, "boddi satva" <lbo.boddi at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is silly Calvinism.
No, it's reality.
> There's a word for "generalized frugality". That word is "poverty".
>
> Villagers in Sierra Leone have a very small carbon footprint.
> What American provides to the world is money. It has simply failed to
> provide the world with enough money.
Money is a debt instrument, it has no intrinsic value. What America was able to provide the world after WWII was //stable// money. Those days are over.
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