Re: [A-List] Germany's 1923 Hyperinflation

["Richard Menec" <menecraj@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 25 May 2009 at 21:27:13 -0400 Anne Williamson
<annewilliamson@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Goldman Sachs is a fascist entity, not a conservative one - though of
> course they have given a lot of money to the RNC over the years, just as
> they have given a lot of money to the DNC over the years.  They are
> insiders, manipulators, and parasites ever on lookout for a
> state-subsidized scam whose ranks have provided numerous government
> officials (usually Treasury, or special White House appt.s) over the
> years.  Free enterprise has been the rhetoric of the US over the last
> century, but not the reality...free markets reigned in 19th century
> America, not the 20th and certainly not the 21st!

**Thanks Anne for the clarification.  It's hard to disagree with all the
adjectives you've used for Goldman Sachs, but I'm not so sure that because
present and past governments have thrown the finance keys to these bastards
that this necessarily means the state cannot perform an exact opposite and
important function, which of course would involve oversight and checks and
balances that should easily precent the Treasury from being looted ad
nauseum.

As far as "free enterprise" goes, I think we'd agree that transnational
corporations, including Goldman Sachs and the banks (World Bank and IMF),
have been given pretty much free reign over much of the world's resources,
numerous ways in which to hide their income, tax breaks, etc., etc.  So we
would agree that so-called free enterprise is in fact monopoly enterprise.
No disagreement there!

all the best,
Richard Menec