siaures vejas [2010-12-01 09:49]:
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IF IT CAN’T PROTECT ITS CITIZENS WHY DOES GOVERNMENT EXIST AT ALL?
But what use is a government that merely allows depression to be imposed on all of its citizens – even those who behaved prudently when others did not? Here in the USA we are firing teachers and firefighters because bankers speculated on real estate. Why should a child lose his/her teacher because of a mistake that a banker makes?
From a societal perspective that should never be acceptable.
And if you cannot protect your own people then what good is your government? This is the question Europeans ultimately have to be asking themselves today….

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“Talk about centralisation! The credit system, which has its focus in the so-called national banks and the big money-lenders and usurers surrounding them, constitutes enormous centralisation, and gives this class of parasites the fabulous power, not only to periodically despoil industrial capitalists, but also to interfere in actual production in a most dangerous manner— and this gang knows nothing about production and has nothing to do with it”.
Ten years ago, a quote from Marx would have one deemed a socialist, and dismissed from polite debate. Today, such a quote can (and did) appear in a feature in the Sydney Morning Herald—and not a few people would have been nodding their heads at how Marx got it right on bankers
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/02/steve-keen-roving-cavaliers-of-credit.html