[WS:] He is painfully honest, I think. The US is not Sweden. In the US the capitalist elite is and has been very strong and the labor movement is and has been weak. In Sweden, the opposite is true. This why what was possible in Sweden is not possible in the US. The business elite has the power to kill any progressive report right away.
Wojtek
--- On Mon, 3/23/09, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: B. <docile_body at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Geithner clarifies
> To: "LBO Talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Date: Monday, March 23, 2009, 2:37 PM
>
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> 40 years ago the US govt couldn't do anything remotely
> progressive because "THIS IS AMERICA! NOT COMMUNIST
> RUSSIA!"
>
> Now it is because "We are not Sweden!"??? That is pretty
> pathetic, seems like evidence of some sort of decline or
> something.
>
> -B.
>
>
>
>
> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> "[Bloomberg headline] GEITHNER SAYS `WE ARE THE UNITED
> STATES,' `NOT SWEDEN'"
>
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