SarasotaRepub
11-20-2010, 12:23 PM
:rolleyes: As I've said before, find an anti-American article and you're bound to see it on DU... (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9596273)
marmar (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-20-10 09:49 AM
Original message "I say let the U.S. economy collapse. It’s not serving us anyway."
Published on Friday, November 19, 2010 by CommonDreams.org
Let's Build the New Economy
by Joe Brewer
We need to build a new economy, one that promotes widespread prosperity while protecting us against ecological disaster. The problem is that the current economy has been structured explicitly to extract wealth from the global commons and accumulate it in the coffers of an extremely powerful elite. And it is standing in our way.
I say let the U.S. economy collapse. It’s not serving us anyway. Now before you go off and think I’m just a heretic who hates this country, please hear me out.
The current economy is designed to:
* Encourage widespread home ownership, which straps people to a lifetime of mortgage debt;
* Mandate that health care only be provided through employers, which enslaves people to meaningless jobs they don’t like;
* Grow perpetually, which means that natural resources must be depleted to keep the gears turning;
* Accumulate wealth in the hands of those who control capital, which drives a wedge between the haves and the have-nots;
* Drive the creation of sweat shops all over the world that enslave billions in a cycle of perpetual poverty;
* Allow corporations to co-opt our democracy, by granting them the rights of legal personhood and defining money as speech;
* Ultimately destroy the foundations of human well-being, thus spiraling deregulated markets out of control.
As a result, we are seeing massive growth of public debt while a small portion of the population becomes more wealthy than the monarchs of past ages. These billionaires then build incredibly sophisticated propaganda machines to convince everyday citizens to support their exploitative system. ...........(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/11/19-1
Commondreams...:rolleyes: Now to be fair we have some on the thread who have enough brains to disagree. And then we have the moron Mika...
Mika (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-20-10 10:32 AM
Response to Original message (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9596273#9596273)
14. Makes checking out Latin America's socialist Bolivarian movement more worthy. Edited on Sat Nov-20-10 10:33 AM by Mika
Cuba started the LatAm/Caribbean anti imperialist/corporatist ball rolling some 50 years ago.
Cubans had the face the austerity of the Soviet collapse - in the early 90's, which meant the loss of their primary trading partner and supplier of oil.
Now Cuba is doing well. Albeit a poor nation, and under the US's extra territorial embargo, but their social infrastructure is world class. The Latin Americas are looking at Cuba's successes and are building upon them, in full partnership with the Cuban government and the Cuban people.
Especially in these times, Cuba is a most welcome partner with most nations of the world, where the Cuban DRs and nurses, teachers, scientists, agronomists, etc etc are welcomed.
Cuban educators also created the "Yes I Can" international multilingual literacy program that has won several UN/UNESCO awards, and has taught millions to read and write.
The Cuban Ministry of Health doctors have created "Operation Miracle", a charitable program that has restored vision to millions around the world.
Cuba trains doctors and auxiliaries from all over the world at no cost to the students, under the condition that they serve in-need sectors of their homeland.
Cuba has even named its amazing Henry Reeve Brigade international emergency response team (consisting of over 25,000 health care and disaster recovery specialists) after an American Dr.
Plus, as mentioned, Cuba's infrastructure ranks as world class in social indices, rivaling some of the wealthiest nations.
Cuba is the only nation to achieve sustainability goals according to the WWF.
Cuba is a global leader in organic food source development (petroleum based agriculture is too expensive and too destructive).
These things happen because Cuba IS a part of the reality based world community.
The United States that has been condemned 19 years in a row by the world community in the United Nations for the unjust extra territorial sanctions upon Cuba.
Despite the hardships and sacrifice in the name of equity and fairness, despite the impoverishing intent of the US sanctions, Cubans have put into place full support infrastructure - education, health care, housing, equal rights, security, non corporate sovereignty.
{Anyone who thinks that a Castro forces this on an unwilling population needs their head examined (or, actually, needs to go to Cuba to see for themselves).}
We could learn a lot from Cuba. They've faced the worst and came out of it stronger and better off.
For those that don't know, Mika is one of the "Fidel/Cuba" crowd over on the DUmp. I think this shithead has been over to Cuba but guess what?? He didn't stay! :eek:
This POS loves to praise the lovely island nation where only those in or connected to power have it well. But call this useful idiot on that and he'll/she'll (I don't remember which) will pull out of bunch of canned links that make Cuba look like a modern paradise for all. This one is just so full of shit it's staggering...
:D
marmar (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-20-10 09:49 AM
Original message "I say let the U.S. economy collapse. It’s not serving us anyway."
Published on Friday, November 19, 2010 by CommonDreams.org
Let's Build the New Economy
by Joe Brewer
We need to build a new economy, one that promotes widespread prosperity while protecting us against ecological disaster. The problem is that the current economy has been structured explicitly to extract wealth from the global commons and accumulate it in the coffers of an extremely powerful elite. And it is standing in our way.
I say let the U.S. economy collapse. It’s not serving us anyway. Now before you go off and think I’m just a heretic who hates this country, please hear me out.
The current economy is designed to:
* Encourage widespread home ownership, which straps people to a lifetime of mortgage debt;
* Mandate that health care only be provided through employers, which enslaves people to meaningless jobs they don’t like;
* Grow perpetually, which means that natural resources must be depleted to keep the gears turning;
* Accumulate wealth in the hands of those who control capital, which drives a wedge between the haves and the have-nots;
* Drive the creation of sweat shops all over the world that enslave billions in a cycle of perpetual poverty;
* Allow corporations to co-opt our democracy, by granting them the rights of legal personhood and defining money as speech;
* Ultimately destroy the foundations of human well-being, thus spiraling deregulated markets out of control.
As a result, we are seeing massive growth of public debt while a small portion of the population becomes more wealthy than the monarchs of past ages. These billionaires then build incredibly sophisticated propaganda machines to convince everyday citizens to support their exploitative system. ...........(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/11/19-1
Commondreams...:rolleyes: Now to be fair we have some on the thread who have enough brains to disagree. And then we have the moron Mika...
Mika (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-20-10 10:32 AM
Response to Original message (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9596273#9596273)
14. Makes checking out Latin America's socialist Bolivarian movement more worthy. Edited on Sat Nov-20-10 10:33 AM by Mika
Cuba started the LatAm/Caribbean anti imperialist/corporatist ball rolling some 50 years ago.
Cubans had the face the austerity of the Soviet collapse - in the early 90's, which meant the loss of their primary trading partner and supplier of oil.
Now Cuba is doing well. Albeit a poor nation, and under the US's extra territorial embargo, but their social infrastructure is world class. The Latin Americas are looking at Cuba's successes and are building upon them, in full partnership with the Cuban government and the Cuban people.
Especially in these times, Cuba is a most welcome partner with most nations of the world, where the Cuban DRs and nurses, teachers, scientists, agronomists, etc etc are welcomed.
Cuban educators also created the "Yes I Can" international multilingual literacy program that has won several UN/UNESCO awards, and has taught millions to read and write.
The Cuban Ministry of Health doctors have created "Operation Miracle", a charitable program that has restored vision to millions around the world.
Cuba trains doctors and auxiliaries from all over the world at no cost to the students, under the condition that they serve in-need sectors of their homeland.
Cuba has even named its amazing Henry Reeve Brigade international emergency response team (consisting of over 25,000 health care and disaster recovery specialists) after an American Dr.
Plus, as mentioned, Cuba's infrastructure ranks as world class in social indices, rivaling some of the wealthiest nations.
Cuba is the only nation to achieve sustainability goals according to the WWF.
Cuba is a global leader in organic food source development (petroleum based agriculture is too expensive and too destructive).
These things happen because Cuba IS a part of the reality based world community.
The United States that has been condemned 19 years in a row by the world community in the United Nations for the unjust extra territorial sanctions upon Cuba.
Despite the hardships and sacrifice in the name of equity and fairness, despite the impoverishing intent of the US sanctions, Cubans have put into place full support infrastructure - education, health care, housing, equal rights, security, non corporate sovereignty.
{Anyone who thinks that a Castro forces this on an unwilling population needs their head examined (or, actually, needs to go to Cuba to see for themselves).}
We could learn a lot from Cuba. They've faced the worst and came out of it stronger and better off.
For those that don't know, Mika is one of the "Fidel/Cuba" crowd over on the DUmp. I think this shithead has been over to Cuba but guess what?? He didn't stay! :eek:
This POS loves to praise the lovely island nation where only those in or connected to power have it well. But call this useful idiot on that and he'll/she'll (I don't remember which) will pull out of bunch of canned links that make Cuba look like a modern paradise for all. This one is just so full of shit it's staggering...
:D