10 Questions For George Soros

[underpants]

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040301-593544,00.html

YOU HAVE COMPARED GEORGE BUSH'S POLICIES WITH THOSE YOU EXPERIENCED LIVING UNDER NAZI AND SOVIET TOTALITARIANISM. THAT'S PRETTY TOUGH STUFF. WHAT DID YOU MEAN?
I did not call Bush a Nazi, and I wouldn't call him a Nazi, because I know the difference between an open society and a totalitarian regime. However, when he says that those who don't support him are supporting the terrorists, I am reminded of Nazi Germany and communist Soviet Union. The Bush Administration has been able to brand those who oppose their policies as unpatriotic, and that endangers the very essence of an open society.

WHICH OF THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES DO YOU LIKE THE BEST?
I was keen on Dean. I have very high respect for General Clark, whom I knew in the Balkans. And I'm absolutely delighted that Senator Kerry has emerged as the front runner, because a war hero who wants to use military force only as the last resort stacks up very well against a warmonger who has not experienced war personally.

IS THE OUTSOURCING OF JOBS BAD FOR THE U.S. ECONOMY?
Since I am not a candidate for office, I think that globalization on the whole is good for the economy. Outsourcing does cost jobs, and it is the job of the Administration to create new jobs, and that is where the Bush Administration is failing.

JUST BETWEEN US, WHERE SHOULD I BE MOVING MY 401(K) MONEY?
I know the answer. But I'm not at liberty to disclose it.

[Care Bear]

1. If anyone is

interested in learning more about Soros, he will be on CSPAN's Booknotes this or the next weekend. He's written a biography and it should be quite an interview.

[gandalf]

2. Tinfoilhatquestion: Does he have CIA connections?

I heard it somewhere. Might be unsubstantiated rumor meant to discredit him. Does anybody know more on this?

edit: spelling

[gandalf]

3. Some hints

Soros may not, as sometimes suggested, be a fully paid-up CIA agent. But that his corporations and NGOS are closely wrapped up in U.S. expansionism cannot seriously be doubted....

Soros is angry not at Bush’s aims---of expanding Pax Americana and making the world safe for global capitalists like himself—but with the crass and blundering way Bush is going about it. By making U.S. ambitions so clear, the Bush gang has committed the cardinal sin of giving the game away. For years, Soros and his NGOs have gone about their work extending the boundaries of the ‘free world’ so skillfully that hardly anyone noticed. Now a Texan redneck and a gang of overzealous neo-cons have blown it

-- Neil Clark, New Statesman, June 2, 2003

And: Soros has invested more than $100 million in Carlyle, Clark tells us.

Infos taken from here: George Soros: “The billionaire trader has become eastern Europe’s uncrowned king and the prophet of “the open society”. But open to what? by Neil Clark, New Statesman, June 2, 2003, A review by Karen Talbot.

[Care Bear]

4. I hope you get BuzzFlash emails

because they have the BuzzFlash interview with Soros today.

I would have posted the link, but have already deleted...