[lbo-talk] Obama got Osama

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Toil and grow rich,	 
What’s that but to lie	 
With a foul witch	 
And after, drained dry,	 
To be brought	         
To the chamber where	 
Lies one long sought	 
With despair.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wojtek S" <wsoko52 at gmail.com>

Joanna, I think you are missing the point of this discussion.  If
moral virtues could improve the lot of the humankind, religions would
be all that is needed.  The point of the USSR being a superpower was
not their military, but rather that it created enough productive
potential to a superpower, which takes a lot for what used to be
backward country.  We could argue whether that productive potential
could have been put to a better use that the military gear - but that
is beside the point.  The point is that their created that potential
in direct contradiction of the pseudo science of economics tells us
about "balancing" supply and demand, budgets etc.

PS.  I  think that most people (save a few die hard idealistic
intellectuals) would prefer to be rich and live amongst selfish
bastards than to be poor and live amongst the virtuous.

Wojtek