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Thursday, October 20, 2005

Silliness from boorish Neal Boorz

Neal Boorz was apparently shocked that some people were shocked that wealthy friends of people with connections got advanced warning about the terrorist threat in New York last week. Boorz thinks that this is the natural order of things:
Well, hell, yes, we should save the rich people first. You know, they're the ones that are responsible for this prosperity.

This is just plain silly. If a disaster hits and there is lots of property damage, who is going to put things back together again? The working class. Can you imagine any member of the "Wealthiest People" list actually putting in twelve hours a day of hard labor to clean up debris and build things? I can't. I'm not waying they wouldn't, but it's not easy to imagine.
The problem with this brand of neoconservatism is that is requires a "surplus population" as Dickens put it, to do the actual work that society requires. In a world with no infrastructure, money don't mean a damn.

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