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How’s That Recessioney, Oily Thing Working Out For Ya? - 7/3/2010 5:30:02 PM

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This guy hit the nail on the head when he wrote this – good that somebody gets it. I hope people will agree.

How’s That Recessioney, Oily Thing Working Out For Ya?
July 1, 2010
by David Michael Green
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/01-1

Let's be honest: We live in stunningly, jaw-droppingly, ridiculously absurd political times.

Here's the story in a nutshell: A far-right predatory overclass has spent the last thirty years undoing the hard-fought gains of the mid-twentieth century, which had produced a robust middle class and vastly more economic and social justice in America than the country had ever known before. These regressives used every kind of deceit imaginable to persuade unsophisticated voters to choose candidates whose real agenda was to assist their plutocratic puppetmasters in fleecing the very same people who voted for them.

Such candidates ran on issues like the death penalty, immigration, bogus wars, gay marriage and abortion. But what they really were about as legislators was exporting jobs to where workers are dirt cheap and politically neutered, crashing organized labor, shifting the tax burden onto the mass public, deregulating industry to allow unhindered profit-taking on the upside and socialized public responsibility for risk on the downside, and locking in a Supreme Court majority that would never blanch at even the most outrageous rulings enhancing corporate power in American society.

If the product of this slow and silent coup wasn't so bloody and so ruinous to so many lives, you'd really have to hand it to these guys for their political acumen and patience. It took a while, and it required the building of a broad and robust infrastructure, spanning from mainstream media to talk radio and TV to think-tanks to Congress, the presidency and the judiciary, to the GOP and now to the Democratic Party as well, but they have pretty much completely succeeded in grabbing all the levers of power in our society. They dominate its discourse entirely, and they have been almost completely successful to date in securing all the elements of their legislative, regulatory and jurisprudential agenda, at least to this point (how far they ultimately intend to go isn't clear - the US as Honduras, perhaps? - but it's unlikely to be pretty). Perhaps the only major exception to that rule was their 2005 failure to privatize the vast pool of public money sitting in the Social Security coffers, which they lust over lasciviously, like teenage boys inhaling online porn by the bucketful.

http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/more-political-articles/2010/7/1/hows-that-recessioney-oily-thing-working-out-for-ya.html

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RE: How’s That Recessioney, Oily Thing Working Out Fo... - 7/4/2010 12:04:17 PM

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The author sounds like he was one of those unpopular kids at school that blamed his lack of popularity on the fact others were more popular than him rather than looking at why he was unpopular. At some point people have to either take the initiative or shut up about all the things they see as hopelessly wrong with the world. We only have forty odd years, you don't want to spend thirty of them bleating on about global unfairness.

I doubt the CEO of Apple was of the opinion that it's poor corporate performance during the late 90's to early 00's was due to evil Microsoft. No because that's s a kind of give up attitude that would never have realised the success of the I-Object and how many things you can successfully associate with the letter I.

The ridiculous polarisation of the media is what threatens democracy. It paints this unrealistic picture of the ability to change the inertia of political choices during one election. What you vote for in the election is what you want to see happening in five years from now, this is how it works. Vote ahead while stocks last.

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RE: How’s That Recessioney, Oily Thing Working Out Fo... - 7/4/2010 7:37:29 PM

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I could care less about him. I care about the middle class and how they are getting and have gotten screwed. Why should I give a shit about Apple Computers? Never mind I don't, so don’t answer the question. Did you read this?

“Here's the story in a nutshell: A far-right predatory overclass has spent the last thirty years undoing the hard-fought gains of the mid-twentieth century, which had produced a robust middle class and vastly more economic and social justice in America than the country had ever known before. These regressives used every kind of deceit imaginable to persuade unsophisticated voters to choose candidates whose real agenda was to assist their plutocratic puppetmasters in fleecing the very same people who voted for them.”

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RE: How’s That Recessioney, Oily Thing Working Out Fo... - 7/4/2010 10:43:57 PM

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"The author sounds like he was one of those unpopular kids at school that blamed his lack of popularity on the fact others were more popular than him rather than looking at why he was unpopular."

You just subjected yourself to a five second psychoanalysis. With that one statement I think I probably already know as much about you as you know about yourself. Are you sure you want thousands of people to view it ?

Just a word to the wise, hopefully.

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RE: How’s That Recessioney, Oily Thing Working Out Fo... - 7/5/2010 4:42:18 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: SL4V3M4YB3
I doubt the CEO of Apple was of the opinion that it's poor corporate performance during the late 90's to early 00's was due to evil Microsoft. No because that's s a kind of give up attitude that would never have realised the success of the I-Object and how many things you can successfully associate with the letter I.

In fact, John Sculley and Gil Amelio both spent a chunk of the '90s whining about Microsoft, at least when Gates wasn't underwriting them in order to make it look less like his company had a monopoly during that antitrust suit. The twat Jobs was hardly shy of this during his first five years since resuming his feifdom over Apple. either.
That's an appallingly bad and completely inappropriate metaphor. Sorry.

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RE: How’s That Recessioney, Oily Thing Working Out Fo... - 7/5/2010 10:29:04 AM

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"The author sounds like he was one of those unpopular kids at school that blamed his lack of popularity on the fact others were more popular than him rather than looking at why he was unpopular."

You just subjected yourself to a five second psychoanalysis. With that one statement I think I probably already know as much about you as you know about yourself. Are you sure you want thousands of people to view it ?

Just a word to the wise, hopefully.

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Free psychoanalysis...bargain.

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RE: How’s That Recessioney, Oily Thing Working Out Fo... - 7/5/2010 10:55:37 AM

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ORIGINAL: Brain
Did you read this?

“Here's the story in a nutshell: A far-right predatory overclass has spent the last thirty years undoing the hard-fought gains of the mid-twentieth century, which had produced a robust middle class and vastly more economic and social justice in America than the country had ever known before. These regressives used every kind of deceit imaginable to persuade unsophisticated voters to choose candidates whose real agenda was to assist their plutocratic puppetmasters in fleecing the very same people who voted for them.”

Thanks for nutshelling it for me however I did read this and style over substance is my verdict.

When you are resorting to poetic tools such as alliteration then you can be sure the content doesn't really stand up to scrutiny in terms of being factual.

It's just another glossy impact piece. This is what happens when blogging takes over from journalism. With journalism you need facts but with blogging it's all about opinion and punchy presentation. I don't see anything but a bunch of accusations and we can all make accusations.

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RE: How’s That Recessioney, Oily Thing Working Out Fo... - 7/5/2010 11:16:51 AM

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“Here's the story in a nutshell: A far-right predatory overclass has spent the last thirty years undoing the hard-fought gains of the mid-twentieth century, which had produced a robust middle class and vastly more economic and social justice in America than the country had ever known before. These regressives used every kind of deceit imaginable to persuade unsophisticated voters to choose candidates whose real agenda was to assist their plutocratic puppetmasters in fleecing the very same people who voted for them.”

Well the wealth comes from We The People and if we are not fooled they can't operate. Embodied in my posts of the last years is the solution. They can't force you to buy anything and one of the major axioms of business are that nothing happens until something is sold. They can almost force you to buy a few things.

For example via state inspection laws they can force you to buy a car, but they can't force you to buy a NEW car. Via the FCC cutting off the normal NTSC signal they seemingly can force you to get cable, one of those converter boxes or a new TV. But it hadn't occurred to you just to not have television did it ? This is what I mean. We fuel this whole fucking nosebleed.

This guy is right, but has underestimated me. I wish he had underestimated alot of others because we then might refuse to provide the fuel for their continuing conquest.

Don't buy anything but bare necessities. That takes fuel from the fire.

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