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To: lavaroise
A few comments. You make a hearty appeal for adoption of Christian fiscal and business principles. My guess is that most people haven't a clue about this appealing alternative to the current heavily corrupted version of Reformation era business practices. The highly necessary debt financing developed by the Dutch and later adopted by Britain, originally needed to develop the New World (and vehemently opposed by the Vatican and the Spanish Inquistion - to their own ultimate detriment) has since been overblown to the point of chaos. Something has got to give. I think we all know that at some level, some are simply more in denial about it than others.

At the same time, those who in one breath praise capitalism and "free markets" and then in the next breath talk about all the little fishies, about social safety nets and about eco-tourism (remind you of "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" by Thomas L. "1960s Marxist Dressed Up In A Pin Sriped Suit 3rd Way Devotee" Friedman?) are actually practicing the ultimate in stealth Gramscian Marxism by increasingly layering the goals of "social justice" (or, an even better term, thanks to Thomas Sowell, "cosmic justice") onto capitalist ones. These people are dangerous and must be stopped.

Ironically, when confronted with assertions that geopolitics, nationalism and the middle class still matter, these same folks then don their "free trade" mantle. The incidious thing about "free trade" as currently defined is that along with the economic openness and standarization package, we also get the externally applied social micromanagement, destruction of conservative (with a small "c") culture and unilateral disarmament packages. After all, once one has signed up to truly global economic management, how can they defend, at a bottom line level, things such as Borders, Language, Culture and National Defense? Of course, one cannot since none of these things are "value added to" in the classical accounting sense.

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world....

68 posted on 08/16/2002 5:09:22 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD
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To: belmont_mark
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69 posted on 08/16/2002 5:54:31 PM PDT by madfly
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