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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35986306/ns/politics-capitol_hill/ who'da thought it'd be a texan? This is great. Kind of like Fairweather claiming his "blood of tyrants" remark was intended as irony. How's that go again, FW?

Mr. Sour Grapes.

This is why you people will always lose.

Hey FW, who's your daddy?

Love the timing of this piece. Heh, who knew?

This is Fairweather's favorite part. It's where freedumb is reaffirmed by striking at a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy if she so desires. The inherent contradiction implied here and elsewhere is the hallmark of modern conservatism. Get it?

I think Lord Emperor Ming's master plan is finally complete. Mmmuuuhhahhahahha!

I'll try to remember your sophisticated, nuanced wit when some waterhead Teabagger uses the quote to justify another suicide attack on innocents.

Two posts, two references to "spanking". Interesting...

Hey, when you decide to shoot up that Wendy's or the Tacoma Mall or whatever in the name of freedom, could you be sure to let your old pals here in Spray know when and where beforehand so we don't get caught up in any crossfire and whatnot? Thanks in advance.

TALK MINUS ACTION EQUALS ZERO! WE'RE ROOTING FOR YOU, BUDDY!! GIT 'ER DONE! MAKE US PROUD!!!

Yeah good, 'cause we were like really scared and everything.

This was clearly the work of agents provacateurs.

Those comments were meant to be understood as satire.

Austerity measures would effect Greek workers almost universally and broad swaths of the population have rightly come out against structural adjustment. They, like the Icelanders, seem to have figured out that they have absolutely NOTHING to gain by holding the blue-bag for those responsible for the mess. In that sense, some of the Teabaggers in this country might have a clue. It simply won't go, Jay.

While bankers bask...

Don't forget the military!

Mmmm-hmmm. I'm puttin' my moneys in the 21st century version of cotton-fields and one of them new Mystery Burgers franchises! Yeah Jay, you're right, structural adjustment of the kind necessary to "save" capitalism isn't going to fly in most of the first world, but given the retardation of America's political scene and the authoritarian streak it's been showing of late, it may just "work" here. Though it probably wouldn't be a society any of us would want to live in. Bought your Quantum Sleeper, yet? Well - you seem to like it well enough to stay despite the continuous and histrionic wails of protest to the contrary, so it must be better than all of the alternatives available to you. I suspect there'll be lots of other folks in the same boat. Could you possibly be as deluded as these statements make you sound? Your "rational actors" and "utility maximizing decision making" have made a prison of your mind. At any rate, the "love it or leave it" recommendation holds for you as well. I'm sure they could use another enlightened despot inside the walls of one of the world's Free Trade Zone paradises.

Mmmm-hmmm. I'm puttin' my moneys in the 21st century version of cotton-fields and one of them new Mystery Burgers franchises! Yeah Jay, you're right, structural adjustment of the kind necessary to "save" capitalism isn't going to fly in most of the first world, but given the retardation of America's political scene and the authoritarian streak it's been showing of late, it may just "work" here. Though it probably wouldn't be a society any of us would want to live in. Bought your Quantum Sleeper, yet?

You seem to have me confused with someone else. The Hobson's Choice that j_b laid out above seems to be the only kind you folks, with your "slippery slopes" and "roads to serfdom", have to offer anymore. I've never advocated for the kind of economies you describe, only for one which actually works for everyone, provides for equality of access to (and in many cases, the provision of) basic services, opportunity for social mobility, respect for human rights, political and economic freedom, and the respect for a multitude of difference. That you dopes have taken the language and spirit of these ideas and gradually reduced them to the catshit grab-bag of property rights uber alles, "economic freedom", and free market fundamentalism over human and ecological need is a testament not to your vision but to your cynicism. Bleak outlook indeed.

And yet, just a couple of years of unrestrained capitalism has left them pining for the old days. Furthermore, apart from the spectacles provided by successive bubble-economies, capitalism has been in slow motion collapse for decades. What's your point?

Nary a neoliberal to be seen anywhere behind Ye Ole Iron Curtain for ~50 years, with the strictest enforcement of all of the protections against competition, privatization, corporate power, etc that you list above plus equally strict enforcement of social equality for ~98% of the population - yet it all imploded. Strange. Are you kidding? Practically the entire region is still trying to recover from the neoliberal "shock treatment" administered after the collapse of Communism. The political corruption of the past pales in comparison with rise of the oligarchs ushered in by free market fundamentalist eggheads.

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And thereby proving once and for all that human activity is not to blame! YAY!

Wow, it's a complete mystery why European workers wouldn't want to work more hours for less pay, dismantle environmental and building restrictions, pay more money for worse health care, increase economic inequalities, increase corporate power in politics and over daily life through privatization, decrease their security in old age, and gut their educational systems along with the rest of the post-war legacy that's made them the envy of the world in order to "compete" in a credit card funded hotdog-eating contest with America. To the extent European neoliberals have been able to affect change in their countries (and it has been considerable), it's been an unmitigated disaster. Choke on it.