BOSTON—After hearing Ralph Nader discuss his new book, Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us, at an event here Friday night, a man expressed the concern many Nader supporters felt upon reading the book’s title. Only the rich? A book about billionaires giving their time and money to charity? From “America’s first citizen”? Has Ralph Nader lost his faith in grassroots organizing… return to article
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Reader Comments (3)Page 1 of 1 pagesThe economy can be easly fixed withut the righ. Our ecoomic system is really Industrial and has provided us with trllions of dollars of unused crefit which we can give to everyone to spend. Consumer dollars to people is the fuel that drives our ecoomy not investment dollars to banks and corporations. So get bus and hav4 the government issue money to people to spend.
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Posted by chseitz on Nov 9, 2009 at 8:04 PM If the government issue money for people to spend they won’t spend it, they’ll do like the banks, hold on to it. Retail sales are going to be down for a long time because people aren’t ready to live beyond their means as before. They’re trying to get out of debt not stay in debt. sams club tires
Posted by Judy Comcas on Nov 13, 2009 at 4:43 AM Dear Judy Comcas:
If the covernment gave everyone just a little money, yes they would save it so that they would not live beyond their means but I plan to gie them an amount beyond their manss that is what they would save.a a thousand dollars a month for veryone . There is plenty os money but it is invisible as credit the industrial system has creaed. It is like a bank loan. If you do not pay it back you are in troouble.In the Industrial sysrem all money earned as salary or wages should be spent that is paid back and only money made frominvestments should be saved. The truth is that we are in an Industrial society and noot a capitalistiic society.
Chas
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