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gregbrown Commented on Israel Celebrates Obama's Election While Olmert Calls For Return To '67 Lines by M.J. Rosenberg

2008-11-12T00:14:26Z

They'll probably find great joy if Lieberman maintains leadership of the Homeland Security Committee, too.

gregbrown Commented on Wake Me When the Revolution Begins by Rotwang

2008-10-25T15:50:22Z

Re: globalism
I found John Ralston Saul's The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World most thought provoking and informative.

gregbrown Commented on Wake Me When the Revolution Begins by Rotwang

2008-10-25T15:43:03Z

"Example: a new highway which adds to infrastructure. It is built not by the firm which bid on it or the workers who worked on it. It is built by the 'savers' who paid for it."

-grins- That is so funny. First, because without the physical labor, the providers of which you denigrate, the highway would remain a figment of human imagination. Second, because nothing excludes those workers from the class 'savers' unless you insist that their wages be so low as to make saving impossible.

gregbrown Commented on Wake Me When the Revolution Begins by Rotwang

2008-10-25T15:28:18Z

Seems this discussion needs a definition of wealth to avoid all sorts of misunderstandings or sophistic arguments. I don't agree that these are all-inclusive or exhaustive, but here are the relevant portions of the definition from MW's 11th Collegiate:

"2) valuable material possessions or resources
4) all property that has a money value or an exchangeable value; all material objects that have economic utility, especially : the stock of useful goods having economic value in existence at any one time"