Rapacious fools.

Editor,

American capitalists don't read Adam Smith because he wrote about the wealth of nations and did not care about how rich one arrogant, rapacious fool could become.

Profit is the engine that enables production to continue -- whether profit accrues to individuals or the state -- but as in every other corner of the capitalist economic model, American pigs gorge themselves beyond the level of excess.

This is their culture, an utter lack of social responsibility that goes hand-in-hand with precisely the special kind of stupidity that drives them to destroy themselves again and again.

re: "American Capitalism Besieged" (3/22/2009)