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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tommaso who wrote (50073)	3/6/1999 12:46:00 PM
From: Oblomov	Respond to of 132070

"Capitalism sure is sunny!" cried the unemployed Laredo toolmaker, as I was out walking, in the streets of Laredo. "None of that noxious Central European miserabilism for us!" And indeed, everything I see about me seems to support his position. Laredo is doing very well now, thanks to application of the brilliant principles of the "new capitalism." Its Gross Laredo Product is up, and its internal contradictions are down. Catfish-farming, a new initiative in its agribusiness sector, has worked wonders. The dram-house and the card-house are each nineteen stories high... -from Donald Barthelme, The Rise of Capitalism