Sunday, July 12, 2009
"Jobless Recovery"
The next person that uses the term "jobless recovery" in public needs to be remanded to a re-education camp. Where is Mao when we need him? It is hard to imagine a more damning indictment of the economics "profession" than their glib reminders (repeated regularly by our befuddled/brainwashed President) that "unemployment always lags behind an economic recovery. Hey idiots! When there are 16 -20 million jobless and who knows how many "uneremployed," THERE IS NO RECOVERY!
Those who have access to Harper's Magazine should check out an article in the latest issue by Kevin Baker, titled "Barack Hoover Obama. He seems to have been reading my mail. Instead of channeling FDR (as I suggested a year and a half ago in a letter published in the Progressive Populist), Obama is channeling Hoover! As Baker notes, "This approach looks like an exercise in democracy drawn from his hays as a community organizer, the sort of strategy that helps a neighborhood to decide whether it wnats, say, a health clinic or a youth center. What he doesn't care to acknowledge is that, in the case of the US Congess, he is dealing with a neighborhood where maybe half want a health clinic and the rest are holding out for grenade launchers and crystal meth." There is no middle gtround. He needs to use his manifest charisma to reach out to the American public and DEMAND that they DEMAND that Congress do its duty.
Today's Times has a piece by Barabara Ehrenreich that epitomizes the heartlessness and cruelty of our society. I have linked it, but not sure it will show up.
Those who have access to Harper's Magazine should check out an article in the latest issue by Kevin Baker, titled "Barack Hoover Obama. He seems to have been reading my mail. Instead of channeling FDR (as I suggested a year and a half ago in a letter published in the Progressive Populist), Obama is channeling Hoover! As Baker notes, "This approach looks like an exercise in democracy drawn from his hays as a community organizer, the sort of strategy that helps a neighborhood to decide whether it wnats, say, a health clinic or a youth center. What he doesn't care to acknowledge is that, in the case of the US Congess, he is dealing with a neighborhood where maybe half want a health clinic and the rest are holding out for grenade launchers and crystal meth." There is no middle gtround. He needs to use his manifest charisma to reach out to the American public and DEMAND that they DEMAND that Congress do its duty.
Today's Times has a piece by Barabara Ehrenreich that epitomizes the heartlessness and cruelty of our society. I have linked it, but not sure it will show up.
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