Re: [Marxism] Mike Whitney interview with Robert Pollin

["Ruthless Critic of All that Exists" <ok.president+marxml@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Walter Lippmann <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> COUNTERPUNCH
> October 16, 2008
>
> An Interview With Robert Pollin
> The End of Friedmanite Economics
> By MIKE WHITNEY
>
> http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney10162008.html

> That is hardly an outlandish crazy-left
> idea now, since George Bush and Henry Paulson have made this a cornerstone
> of the Republican-led bailout plan.

Full: <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/opinion/18collins.html?ref=opinion>


"Now is the October of our discontent.

"First of all, George W. Bush showed up on TV Friday morning to
reassure the nation. What could possibly be worse?

"Everybody knows that anything our president says is very likely
wrong, and certainly won't happen. If he announced: "I'm sending
government agents to Spokane to arrest the looters," we would expect
that the officials would get lost, nobody would be arrested, and the
looters probably never existed in the first place.

"So hearts sunk throughout the nation when Bush appeared at a Chamber
of Commerce gathering to say that the economy would recover.

"America is the most attractive destination for investors around the
globe. America is the home of the most talented and enterprising and
creative workers in the world," said the president, who also insisted
that "democratic capitalism remains the greatest system ever devised."

Which translates into: all the money is going to Asia, nobody will
ever get a job again and Karl Marx was right after all."

Full: <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/opinion/18collins.html?ref=opinion>

________________________________________________
YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.
Send list submissions to: Marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Set your options at: 
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40archives.econ.utah.edu