[lbo-talk] The skinny on Greece....

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jun 8 09:06:53 PDT 2011


On Jun 8, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Dennis Redmond wrote:


> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What is the purpose of restricting public spending other than to
>> protect the profitability of private investments?
>
> There are tons of other reasons, but I wouldn't discount the factor of
> Imperial suicide. The Empire hates itself, you know. As an American, I
> can feel this self-hatred intensely.

Europe is doing a better job at suicide than the U.S. is, so far.

Doug



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