prole
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Ur mama?
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Barely noted in the article is how these companies profits are plowed back into lobbying on the issues that drive their business warping the democratic process and skewing the frame of debate. Would anyone in their right mind want a company that profits from detention strongly influencing how a community handles immigration? The question of course is not limited to immigration, but pretty much cuts across our entire society at every level in this day and age.
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Spray, so timely...
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There's nothing magical about geographic boundaries. If trade between countries destroys jobs, so does trade between states, counties, cities, and individuals. Unions are smart enough to recognize that it doesn't matter where the competition comes from, as long as people can whatever they're making for a lower price - they're toast. Doesn't matter if it's across town or across the globe. Which is why they do everything they can to either prevent people from buying from someone else, or hamstring their competitors with enough penalties to neutralize any price advantage that their competitors have. Yes, the failure of the union movement to grasp and act on the necessity of a true international in the context of global capitalism has been a monumental mistake. But anyway, simply saying that "trade destroys jobs" as if all this were just an unfolding of God's everlasting plan overlooks the vast arsenal that a state or other kinds of communities have at their disposal to shape the terms of those relationships and to mitigate the impacts in ways that actually benefit citizens (given of course that their political and intellectual leadership isn't composed of the kind of frothing zealots that we've had for the last few decades). I think that's the point of the paper, yes?
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In the current smash and grab mode of accumulation, disaster capitalists have traded your realist understanding of the role of the State for their own propaganda. We now have a comparative advantage in aging fatties and payday loan interest payers. Not much else.
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The job-creation narrative that helped sell the Bush tax cuts never materialized in the midst of another jobless recovery. That's pretty obvious. In related news, the connection between job destruction and another conservative fantasy ("free trade creates jobs"), got much clearer this week:
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Keep blissing out in your denial world, dude. As long as you can go cragging a couple times a month, right?
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and rejecting the rigged political game...
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According to recent polls, many of them are probably at the Old Country Buffet or Applebee's.
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WHERE'S THE TEA PARTY!!!
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but weren't the same guys who said cutting taxes would create jobs also sayign that super low interest rates were good, that it would end the recession before that and keep everybody buying shit and thereby keep everybody employed? Interest rates as post-9/11 crisis management tool? [video:youtube]
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Put on your big boy pants. There's work to do.
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It has. There aren't. Grow up. The end.
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When you consider the reanimation of market fundamentalism from fringe wacko status it earned as a result of the Great Depression to the dominant mode of thought in policy and social discourse it's pretty clear that's exactly what happened. The growth of the Addams Family think-tank complex is an important part of that history. Yes, struggle is part of that history and the mild extent to which it's been resisted probably accounts for the fact we're not yet living in one of Jay_B's carceral free-trade paradises. The charts simply show how horribly these ideas have failed us.
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dude, how much penn and teller have you watched? They're okay compared with other professional magicians (sorry, illusionists) of the late-80s. Umm, wow.
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The reorganization has been happening, just not in a good way. Need to see those charts again?
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Typical libertarian.
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Loves me some Adam Curtis. The curse of TINA
