[Info-vax] Quite ON-topic actually

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <glu72b$7hq$1 at news-01.bur.connect.com.au>,
	"Richard Maher" <maher_rj at hotspamnotmail.com> writes:
> A Karl Marx quote I stimbled across at: -
> http://business.smh.com.au/business/they-should-have-listened-to-marx-20090130-7tlk.html
> "The credit system, which has its focus in the so-called national banks and
> the big-money lenders and usurers surrounding them, constitutes enormous
> centralisation, and gives this class of parasites the fabulous power, not
> only to periodically despoil industrial capitalists, but also to interfere
> in actual production in a most dangerous manner - and this gang knows
> nothing about production and has nothing to do with it,'' Marx's words
> published 11 years after his death said.
> 
> Regards Richard Maher
> 
> Another OT (yet still interesting) Marx quote from the same smutt-rag:
> 
> To close on a lighter note then, here is a quote from Karl Marx in 1867:
> 
> "Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more
> expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and
> more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable.
> 
> The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be
> nationalized and the State will have to take the road which will
> eventually lead to communism."
> 
> Now, I'm not a reader of Marx (unless it's broken up into tiny little junks
> for the great unwashed :-) and lean to the right which is why I'm
> particularly disgusted with what's going on in The States and here. And yes
> I'm decreasing the COV signal-to-noise ratio with the second bit, but you
> have to say the first quote is right on the money for VMS would you not?

Actually, I would think that the recent article by John Dvorak showed
a major reason for the downfall of VMS.  While this mistake hurt the
whole industry,  I think it hurt VMS much more than most other players
of their stature.


And as long as we're quoting Marx, here's one of my favorites:
  "Outside of dog a book is a man's best friend.  inside of a dog it's
   to dark to read."  - Groucho Marx

Or, maybe this one:
    "Honk"  -  Harpo Marx

OK, now you can get back to discussing politics.

bill

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