It is not only parasitic, but in the process of its parasitism, it creates many negative situations for the non-financial economy.

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People who complain about parasitic banks should understand that parasitism is exactly what a permanent system of size-capped banks would produce.

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Parasitism that would have seemed sad anywhere else blossomed into flamboyant celebrity.

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Those who benefit from this political parasitism are traditional party bosses such as Mr Duhalde and others on whose congressional backing he now relies.

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Even greater than the growth of pure government spending is the growth of this kind of private enterprise parasitism, enabled, aided and abetted by the ruling classes.

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Government parasitism tolerated as a means of producing social order is a crude enterprise, fraught with danger for the hosts, a kind of Faustian Bargain, and the ultimate price is enormous.

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Mr. Patch would surely agree that a major effort to preventing war and human suffering must be to support continued medical research, especially to ameliorate emerging epidemics such as worldwide "Lyme Disease", drug-resistant malaria and tuberculosis, and parasitism.

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