[Mudboy Slim]

Lib'rals SUCK!! They really do...MUD

[eddie willers]

I can afford it, I am quite willing to pay more income tax."

No one's stopping you.....asshole.

[Salman]

Old fashioned socialism's gripe against capitalism was the private control of the means of production. They claimed that a centrally controlled economy would serve human needs better than capitalism.

In essence they were aiming at the same thing as capitalism, except their way didn't work.

Greenie-ism's gripe against capitalism is that the means of production exist at all. They like a centrally controlled economy, but human needs aren't on the agenda even as a rhetorical flourish.

You can't claim their way doesn't work. For what they want to accomplish it does work.

As an aside, the Euro way is somewhere in between. They claim to serve human needs and while socialism doesn't work, semi-socialism semi-works. Good enough for them.

[hoosierskypilot]

You environmentalists don't like capitalism?

O.K. You can divest yourselves of the fruits of capitalism by sending me all your earthly goods, cash, etc.

Mail to:

I love capitalism.
P.O. Box 1776
USA......

[dhuffman@awod.com]

P'raps Irish could start with his own backyard - Ireland. It would seem a more susceptible target for his rhetoric.

I note these anti-capitalists like to take on the Goliath of capitalism rather than pick on someone of their own size. If only from the consideration of bureaucratic inertia Ireland or Namibia or France are easier to turn around.

Or are they only looking for their fifteen minutes?

The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.

[Kozak]

Watermellons.

Green on the outside, Red on the inside.

[upcountryhorseman]

The U. S. form of govenment accompanied by capitalism has produced the most freedom and opportunity of any system
in the world. However, its important to realize that
"capitalism" is not an "ism". It needs some form of
democracy and free enterprise to function.

[Mike Darancette]

Edwards believes that growth and development was earth-friendly until about 1900.

This guy is delusional. The late 19th Century set the stage developmentaly for all that followed. Only, now we produce much more while being more "earth-friendly".

Had the trends of the middle Industrial Revolution continued apace to this day the Earth would be a slag heap much like the Soviet Empire of the late 1970's.

[AdamSelene235]

the allure of free market capitalism "sinister"

I'll take even the tackiest strip mall over a gulag anyday.

[Chairman Fred]

The "profit motive" so much disdained by Nazis, Greens and Marxists is simply a material expression of the desire for self-improvement that is the human spirit.

Anyone who disparages the "profit-motive" simply wants human beings to suffer (and die). There is nothing noble in Socialism. There is nothing noble in environmentalism. There is only a longing to commit mass murder.

[avenir]

"I can afford it, I am quite willing to pay more income tax"

...he says with glass of Cristal in hand, lobster claw dangling from mouth.