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April 21, 2008
“Capitalism Should Be Scrapped”
Posted by Tina
At least one of the world’s leaders thinks we’d all be better off living with raw sewage running in the gullies alongside the pathways that lead to a local marketplace. We’d be so much better off, he thinks...with disease and fever running rampant and nothing but filthy water to sooth our foreheads or quench our thirst…yep, this would be much better than running water, indoor plumbing, and modern hospitals and medicines:
“Capitalism harms planet - Morales,” by Laura Trevelyan - BBC News
New York - Bolivian President Evo Morales has told a UN forum that capitalism should be scrapped if the planet is to be saved from the effects of climate change. ''If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system,'' he said. Opening an UN meeting in New York on the rights of indigenous people, he also said the development of biofuels harmed the world's poorest people. The forum's theme is the global impact of climate change on native people.
Capitalism has brought us comfort and playthings but it has also brought tremendous advantage in terms of our quality of life.
Capitalism creates wealth and wealth is the fuel that problem solvers, innovators and entrepreneurs rely on to solve whatever needs and REAL problems we may encounter along the way.
Morales is right about biofuels, however…and we all know what extremist movement caused the RUSH to bring them to market…environmentalists…like Al Gore who has conveniently positioned himself to make a bundle on investments like biofuels.
Or …as Jerome J. Schmitt at the American Thinker put it today:
No Blood for Oil" is a spurious rallying cry on the left, but apparently it is acceptable for the poor in the third world to starve so that American Eco-activists can feel self-righteous about driving "flex-fuel" vehicles. According to the WORLD BANK: "almost all of the increase in global maize production from 2004 to 2007 (the period when grain prices rose sharply) went for biofuels production in the U.S.
Posted by Post Scripts at April 21, 2008 10:08 PM