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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on February 05, 2010, 04:47:01 PM
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Oh my.
malaise (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-05-10 05:26 PM
THE MALARIAL PRIMITIVE
Original message
Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland
Why is everyone attacking them today because of their economic crises when they were under the edict of the Washington Consensus. I asked hubby the other night if it dawned on him that the planet was ****ed by two politicians with dementia (Reagan and Thatcher) who promoted the ideas of two lunatics (Hayek and Friedman). The so called New World Order was the most demented paradigm in history. It destroyed the entire global middle class in less than 30 years.
leftstreet (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-05-10 05:28 PM
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1. Reagan, Thatcher and Mulroney
The true axis of evil
Rockholm (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-05-10 05:29 PM
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2. Gay Marriage.
Spain and Portugal already have it. I hear Ireland may get it. Greece, not yet.
FarCenter (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-05-10 05:32 PM
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3. The world can't afford a middle class
On a global basis, raising the standard of living of a majority of the 7 billion people to the middle class would exhaust resources almost immediately.
Having a divide between rich countrys, which have a large middle class, and underdeveloped countries, which do not, creates international tensions between nations and a risk of war.
Therefore, the plan is to have a small rich class and a large poor class. Look to Latin America, India, etc., for the social model of the future.
malaise (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-05-10 05:36 PM
THE MALARIAL PRIMITIVE
Response to Reply #3
4. No middle class
no manufacturing.
We need a new model of development urgently. This neo-liberal crap has failed abysmally.
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<I>Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland
7 US states are in worse shape than those countries. Bet we can guess which ones.