On Sep 24, 2008, at 8:39 PM, Jenny Brown wrote:
> Apparently one can do worse to encourage ownership fetishism:
>
> "Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), spoke out against a
> bailout, calling the current proposal "cash for trash," and
> proposing a distribution of the assets back to the taxpayers.
> "Since the bailout will cost each and every American about $2,300,
> tomorrow I will offer legislation to create a United States Mutual
> Trust Fund, which will take control of $700 billion in stock assets,
> at market value and not higher, convert those assets to shares, and
> distribute $2,300 worth of shares to new individual savings accounts
> in the name of each and every American," Kucinich said in a statement.
Means of production not equal to houses.
Doug