Aunty 'Murken

[Pepi Plowman]

I can definitely dig the great colonizing swindle of
this country, and know why people screamed "americana"
at me when I walked down the street in Venezuela.  I'm
afraid we have joined the "Third World," despite
everyone's denial.  The marauding Huns have been
reinvented and are tearing the joint up.  To the
hills! To the hills!
pep
--- blacky@cbn.net.id wrote:

> It was amusing to read an account in The Economist
> of the history of the
> first British investment in 'the colonies'.
> 
> Guess who came out on top. Guess who held the shit
> end of the stick.
> 
> It would not surprise me to learn that
> 'anti-Americanism' dated from those
> early days. Apart from the religious nuts &
> fanatics, remittancemen, draft
> dodgers and adventurers, the new land attracted what
> no prettification can
> avoid labeling swindlers, more commonly titled today
> 'investment fund
> counselors' and such.
> 
> Most of the investment was in the ag sector. Most
> lost shirts for Brit
> investors. But it was the cash generator that
> started off, with a roar,
> the American economy.
> 
> Since WW-II the same thing has been happening of
> course with American and
> European investment in fatally attractive 'emerging
> markets' (aka
> 'emergency markets') like Brazil, Kenya, and my
> current home, Indonesia.
> 
> Locals do swell. Wall Street bloodsuckers do great
> on commissions, win or
> lose.
> 
> But Grandma and Grandpa back in East Dogpatch,
> having sunk their life
> savings in those brilliant mutual funds, come a
> cropper alas.
> 
> Thus the 'anti-American' resentment at being
> swindled can now be felt
> about countries that have in recent years ripped off
> the wealthy West and
> Japan. What goes round la la.
> 
>
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