Re: Capitalism simply isn't working and here are the reasons
Posted: Mon 14 Apr 2014, 17:22:38
Plantagenet wrote:Subjectivist wrote:
Michigan had three extraction booms, first they came for the Copper, then the Lumber, and finally the Iron Ore.
A fourth extraction boom occurred when the auto companies were bailed out the government after the 2007-9 recession. GM and Chrysler extracted billions of dollars from the US taxpayer that will never be repaid in full.
If you are going to count that then when did Alaska repay the US citizens for the Alaska Railroad from Seward to Fairbanks and the Alaska Highway through Canada to Fairbanks?