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We can meet the ecological crisis head-on, as soon as we have the resources to stop creating it.

I'M GON' GET MINE, YO!

Ayn Rand and Pat Robertson, a necessary-evil ideological match made in heaven. In practice, a closed-set big-baller rap video in the VIP for corporate and political elites.

Applied Neoclassical Economics: Take away the latter, arrive at that point sooner!

Yes, we saw the corresponding charts already, but hey, thanks for the reminder! Are you starting to get it yet, Jay? Because you're getting tiresome.

There's been a mathematical crisis at the heart of the transfer mechanisms used to fund the welfare state ever since people started living longer and having dramatically fewer children. For the past forty years even actuaries with traumatic brain injuries have looked at the data and been able to conclude that gap between inbound payments and outbound spending would grow too large to finance at some point, even under assumptions of healthy, uninterupted economic growth. Take away the latter and you arrive at that point sooner, but the destination has always been the same. Once you get there - it's too late to do much other than default and try to get by on what you can actually afford to pay for. Everybody Loves Malthus. When it's convenient, of course.

The debt crisis is a direct result of the financial collapse and reliance on bubbles to maintain economic growth while the corporate elite have dine-and-dashed enabled by corrupt politicians and their useful idiot electoral base. There wasn't a "crisis of the welfare state" until the neoliberal project, more specifically financial liberalization and "tax freedom", predictably shit the bed. And hey, if you need to show clips from the opening scene of 2001 to show how far we've come as a result of Reaganomics, knock yourself out.

As the charts show above, global capitalism is actually producing a tremendous amount of wealth and that it isn't being consumed collectively.

Yeah, keep blaming the "welfare state" when your chosen brand of "modification" has been well underway since the 70's. Haven't we already been over this?

The news is that it's being criminally under-reported and exists mainly outside the mainstream consciousness.

Stiiiill going....

Of course it isn't just that: environmental standards, workplace health and safety, permitting, zoning, minimum wages, etc, etc, etc. All considered "onerous" by corporate America and the wannabe class of "small business owners". We've been going through 30 years of this restructuring process, what have we to show? An economy dependent on successive unsustainable bubbles and workers held hostage to a race to the bottom in living standards while a small percentage of the population cashes out.

Record profits for American corporations, and yet... Enough with an ideology that claims what's good for business is always good for the rest of us. Times have changed, wake up and smell the emerging Third World-style class structure.

Don't worry, the Obama team will roll out some sound, coherent, and compelling responses sometime around late October of next year.

Sorry E-wank, as hard as you've been trying to get my attention, I'm still not going to fuck you.

Exactly how do you mean, "know"?

I'm fairly certain that Off-White's post was tounge-in-cheek. Too bad you didn't get the joke.

There's no such thing as "abuse". It's simply a matter of what the market will bear.

Hard to know which is more tasteless, the video or his pizza.

That was awkward.

It shows definitive proof of the existence of Cling-ons.

Do us a favor. Go Galt.

Talk about an inflated sense of entitlement. Guh.

Another "small business owner" with a God-complex. Great.

I always thought the point of the unions was to provide collective bargining and level the playing field in negotiations. Vandalism and indimidation sucks when you're the victim of these goons. Interesting to me none of them were reportedly arrested. What's up with that? In the larger picture, if it weren't for workers just like these putting their asses on the line just like this to maintain the right to bargain collectively and level the playing field in negotiations back in the day, you wouldn't have a pot to piss in. Unless you're a heiress or something...