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AllyCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-26-09 09:15 AM
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26. I agree with Correa. The IMF and World Bank put poor countries in horrible
situations. Knowing little about it, one can look at the "reform" on the table and see that it's a photo-op solution to give the appearance of "world co-operation" on a major problem.
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  -Capitalism, IMF and World Bank under fire at U.N. UpInArms  Jun-25-09 09:43 PM   #0 
  - the imf and world bank has ruined countries across this planet  madrchsod   Jun-25-09 09:54 PM   #1 
  - agreed  UpInArms   Jun-25-09 09:57 PM   #2 
  - ...and they're backtracking to do the same thing in America . . .!!!  defendandprotect   Jun-25-09 10:12 PM   #5 
  - You said it.  DeSwiss   Jun-26-09 02:48 AM   #16 
  - I Wouldn't Equate Fraud, Looting and Embezzlement with Capitalism  Demeter   Jun-25-09 10:05 PM   #3 
  - Capitalism is a ridiculous "King-of-the-Hill" system intended to move ...  defendandprotect   Jun-25-09 10:14 PM   #6 
  - Sorry, But You Don't Know What You Are Talking About  Demeter   Jun-25-09 10:15 PM   #7 
  - The world knows the evils of capitalism . . . and America is waking up to it . . .  defendandprotect   Jun-25-09 10:27 PM   #8 
  - Huh?  proteus_lives   Jun-26-09 02:19 PM   #37 
  - But he does, he does  izquierdista   Jun-26-09 09:35 AM   #29 
  - I agree, Defendandprotect! Capitalism has NOTHING TO DO WITH democracy!  Peace Patriot   Jun-25-09 10:36 PM   #10 
     - and unparalleled propaganda  NJCher   Jun-26-09 02:00 AM   #14 
     - and one more thing  NJCher   Jun-26-09 02:11 AM   #15 
     - Great points ---  defendandprotect   Jun-26-09 01:34 PM   #33 
     - I say, if MEDICARE FOR ALL is socialism . . . bring it on --- !!!!!  defendandprotect   Jun-26-09 01:32 PM   #31 
     - Agree . . . and we evidently survived quite well without capitalism for eons . . .  defendandprotect   Jun-26-09 01:33 PM   #32 
  - Then you're unfamiliar with the notion of what capitalism is  Chulanowa   Jun-26-09 12:05 AM   #11 
  - Yes . . . !!!!  defendandprotect   Jun-26-09 01:35 PM   #34 
  - Fraud, Looting and Embezzlement  DallasNE   Jun-26-09 07:20 AM   #21 
  - That's exactly what it's become n/t  Pharaoh   Jun-26-09 07:41 AM   #23 
  - They are equivalent from the POV of many in the "developing" world  IrateCitizen   Jun-26-09 08:44 AM   #24 
  - Interesting history . . . especially re Commonwealth concepts . . .  defendandprotect   Jun-26-09 01:50 PM   #35 
  - Of course not - if the government will just keep its hands out of the business of business  RaleighNCDUer   Jun-26-09 08:51 AM   #25 
     - Rather than an "Amen" . . . .  defendandprotect   Jun-26-09 01:59 PM   #36 
  - Our sacred system of capitalism under attack by UN . . . but weren't we taught that . . .  defendandprotect   Jun-25-09 10:11 PM   #4 
  - Trying to figure out the alternatives  Dr_Willie_Feelgood   Jun-26-09 05:20 AM   #17 
     - IMO  ImOnlySleeping   Jun-26-09 07:23 AM   #22 
     - Agree the conclusion re capitalism and communism was "a pox on both their houses."  defendandprotect   Jun-26-09 02:28 PM   #39 
     - What you have to understand is that our economy is as artificial as the dollar bill...  defendandprotect   Jun-26-09 02:22 PM   #38 
  - Thank you Correa!  ananda   Jun-25-09 10:35 PM   #9 
  - How much blood is on their hands?  farmboxer   Jun-26-09 12:13 AM   #12 
  - Will the new South America lead the way?  Proletariatprincess   Jun-26-09 12:36 AM   #13 
  - Notice, they cannot just report that Ecuador's President Rafael Correa blamed  glowing   Jun-26-09 07:02 AM   #18 
  - I noticed that too!  AllyCat   Jun-26-09 09:18 AM   #28 
  - True observation . . .  defendandprotect   Jun-26-09 02:32 PM   #40 
  - They always do that for any leader who isn't in the neo-con club  arikara   Jun-26-09 03:53 PM   #41 
  - Robin Mead, CNN, this a.m. looking at foreclosures in Florida, "FUN"  lonestarnot   Jun-26-09 07:05 AM   #19 
  - Unregulated Capitalism Is A Faceless Monarchy  DallasNE   Jun-26-09 07:13 AM   #20 
  - I agree with Correa. The IMF and World Bank put poor countries in horrible  AllyCat   Jun-26-09 09:15 AM   #26 
  - Yes - No IMF No World Bank. I endorse that position. They don't deserve  peacetalksforall   Jun-26-09 09:17 AM   #27 
  - Good for Correa. Unregulated capitalism is economic feudalism.  Vidar   Jun-26-09 12:20 PM   #30 
  - knr nt  slipslidingaway   Jun-26-09 04:43 PM   #42 
  - K&R  New Dawn   Jun-26-09 07:48 PM   #43 
  - Viva!  shellgame26   Jun-26-09 08:21 PM   #44 
  - I don't know why people make this so difficult  Hydra   Jun-26-09 09:07 PM   #45 
 

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