> Wojtek wrote "[t]he military-industrial complex or the prisons also create
> a
> lot of jobs. Should we increase spending on them too?" But there is a
> basic
> problem with your reasoning. Although your logic exhibits an appreciation
> of the complex of factors that must be reckoned with in matters of
> industrial policy, to compare the automobile industry with the
> prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex is
> Philistine
> if we bear in mind the political aspects of your comparison. The masses
> of
> the developing countries are oppressed, on a daily basis, by the
> pretensions
> and realities of the US Empire. African-Americans and Latinos suffer
> significant material and political deprivations on account of the
> prison-industrial complex. Such matters must have political precedence
> over
> the problem of global warming in the first instance (which is not, of
> course, to deny the political importance of dealing with global warming).
>
> epoliticus
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