Charles Adler interviews David Rothkopff .  It's not surprising that Rothkopff would be spewing Marxist dogma because, well, that's what he does.  What is surprising is that a "supposedly" centrest radio host just sat there and swallowed the pablum.  Not once did Adler question Rothkopff's core assertions:

This group has so much more money and talent and power than the poor, untalanted people, and the rich people need to use their money and power for the "common good".  Inequity!  Inequity! Inequity!  The wealth of the elites needs to be restrained!  Controls need to be put in place!  Mechanisation of labor has to stop!  Bono and Al Gore are Heros! 

Give me a friggin' break!  That crap is right out of the communist manefesto ! 

• What's wrong with having individuals with talent, using their talent to earn a profit?

• What's wrong with having the market determine what price will be paid for that talent?

• What obligation, moral or otherwise, is there that dictates that an individual's profit be shared with others?

• What right does Rothkopff have to say that the talented people are earning too much?

• Why should it be up to the state to determine how much profit an individual can make?

Those are the questions that Adler should have been asking but he didn't.  Why not?  Because Marxism is so ingraned in Canadian culture that not even the "centrists" bat an eye at it anymore... 

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written by Rob C, April 26, 2008

Adler is only interested in what is good for Adler. I would think his ass get pretty sore sitting on the fence. I quit listening to the clown a long time ago.

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written by Dinosaur, April 29, 2008

Yeah I used to like him but it's like joe clark I thought he was good but it's a long way from 1979.

The paradox to all this is that we in the west have the richest poor people in the world. Did Russia get any richer after 70 yrs of socialism? Nope. Are North Americans better off than we were in 1914, Yup.

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