But forget about digging through boxes and go ride your bike. I wish mine
were up and running so I could enjoy it more than vicariously.
Jim Worstell, Delta Land & Community
920 Hwy 153, Almyra, AR 72003
Phone: 870-673-6346 Fax: 870-673-7219
www.deltanetwork.org jvworstell@futura.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Michele Gale-Sinex/CIAS, UW-Madison [SMTP:mgs@AAE.WISC.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 1998 5:07 PM
To: sanet-mg@amani.ces.ncsu.edu
Subject: Selling Product and ag
Dan Worley (who I much appreciate for his GE News posts, BTW) wrote:
> Capitalists don't rape, pillage, and burn. They sell their
> products. Most (if not all) know you can't sell to dead, dying, or
> injured potential customers.
You can't?????
Well, gosh! Account if you will for the current health insurance and
health care situation in the US. What is this if not capitalism
making economic hay precisely on the dead, dying, or injured? And
those who have power within the system resisting less-capitalist
alternatives, like single-payer? (Less-capitalist in the sense that
they would focus on providing services, including preventive care,
rather than generating profits for HMOs through "competition.")
Or account for the funeral industry...or for the elder "care"
industry.
Or account for the farm crisis here in the Midwest, for that matter.
If you think corporations aren't pillaging injured and dying people
and communities in the name of ever-expanding profits and the wealth
of anonymous shareholders in Jane's part of the world, Dan, come
take a walk around Iowa, Nebraska, and Illinois.
While you're at it, pop up to Wisconsin. I know some farms out in
the coulee where people haven't forgotten about things like United
Fruit and some folks in inner city Milwaukee who haven't forgotten
about the slaves/rum/cotton triangle trade.
And puhleeeeze don't try to tell me those weren't capitalist
enterprises. Or I'll have to go dig out bunches of primary and
secondary historical sources in boxes I've got tucked away in
storage. :^) I'd really rather be riding my motorcycle these last
fine summer evenings.
peace
misha
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Michele Gale-Sinex, communications manager
Center for Integrated Ag Systems
UW-Madison College of Ag and Life Sciences
Voice: (608) 262-8018 FAX: (608) 265-3020
http://www.wisc.edu/cias
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