On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Bill O'Connor <billyoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Joanna <123hop at comcast.net> writes:
>
>> This is the one thing that's driving me crazy about the current talk.
>>
>> Taking money from the poor/working class to give to finance capital is
>> not socialism, it's just good old capitalism shorn of its more
>> roundabout circuit.
>>
>> There's no such thing as "socialism for the rich"! It goes beyond
>> oxymoron. It's like talking about orgasms for the dead.
>
> Well now I just feel silly. :)
>
> I'm afraid I've parroted this "privatize the profits, socialize the
> losses" canard myself. You're right, of course. This is no privatizing
> of losses, just a more direct theft of worker's money from the treasury
> coffers.
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-- peace,
boddi
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