Michael Parenti hits the nail on the head about the 'free market' response

[FrankChurch]

http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2005-09/03parenti.cfm

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

1. kick

Great read

[FrankChurch]

2. Aint z great.

Anarchy indeed.

[malaise]

3. Democracy for the Few

he was right about that decades ago as well - one of the best political science texts books ever printed. He needs to publish an updated edition.

[crispini]

4. Very good read.

Nominated.

[KT2000]

5. An investigation

will prove him right. After the people have been taken care of this is exactly what we need to bring out - this is the conservative dream come true.

[FrankChurch]

6. Michael Parenti for President

We need a gay President. The rose garden would look great.

[enough]

7. nominating -- excellent article

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They announced that everyone should evacuate. Everyone was expected to devise their own way out of the disaster area by private means, just as the free market dictates, just like people do when disaster hits free-market Third World countries.

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There would be none of the collectivistic regimented evacuation as occurred in Cuba. When an especially powerful hurricane hit that island last year, the Castro government, abetted by neighborhood citizen committees and local Communist party cadres, evacuated 1.3 million people, more than 10 percent of the country's population, with not a single life lost, a heartening feat that went largely unmentioned in the U.S. press.

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In their campaign to starve out the public sector, the Bushite reactionaries also allowed developers to drain vast areas of wetlands. Again, that old invisible hand of the free market would take care of things. The developers, pursuing their own private profit, would devise outcomes that would benefit us all.

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[FrankChurch]

8. Everyone needs to read this.

David Frum is a jerk.