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So then, you're not able to answer the question?

Of course then it will be time to define "consumer spending", "economic activity", "is", "the" and "a".

Can you spell out precisely what you mean by "overwhelmingly dependent upon consumption"? Whoops!

Still not understanding how cutting workers' wages and benefits (and I'm assuming laying off quite a few, as well) in a context of high unemployment is going to boost growth in an economy that is overwhelmingly dependent on consumption.

What?! Didn't you see the precious adopted child-of-color shopping for locally sourced whoopie pies?

Being skeptical is one thing, taking up a high-minded crusade to "debunk" what are relatively minor phenomena amidst a sea of daily commercial swindle, fakery, despoilment, and exploitation on a colossal scale is another. Your perspective is seriously out of whack.

Affirmation of the day! I've taken to humming the strains of this song in my head and smiling when I run into someone who has literally no idea what an antigen is, much less an adjuvant, chimes in with news that they'll be spacing out their vaccinations because - based on what they heard at their Mommy-Yoga class in Fremont - they don't want to have their infant exposed to too many "antigens" all at once. Oh, I didn't say he probably isn't right. I'm saying he's a humorless, ideologically fixated twat. "Edgy"...

[video:youtube] If this is what passes for a sense of humor in your book then your social pariah status is well-earned. Christopher Hitchens meets Gallagher...

Come and See (1985)

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Ah, that's what happened to the Phoenix - the last of our ships sunk by the British. City names these days are on Los Angeles class attack subs. Yes, the Phoenix was sold to Argentina, renamed the General Belgrano, and was sunk by a Brit sub in 1982. wiki The Brooklyn was transferred to Chile, renamed the O'Higgins, and sank on its way to a scrapyard in India ~40 years later. wiki Zzzzzz...

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AD HOMINEM!!

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Obama top advisor, David Axelrod, on not letting the Bush tax-cuts expire: "We have to deal with the world as we find it," Axelrod said during an unusually candid and reflective 90-minute interview in his office, steps away from the Oval Office. "The world of what it takes to get this done." Sound familiar? It should be tattooed on the forehead of every Democrat in America. Did you hear any such mewling tripe during Bush's eight years in office? Nope. The funny thing is, the blame for the inevitable radioactive social fallout from this and the austerity plan (for the rest of us) will fall squarely on the Obama Administration. In the era of back and forth incumbent backlash it seems we won't be "waiting for ubermensch" for very long.

Barack "Hoover" Obama. Fuck 'em.

Because driving a bus and being able to send your kid to college IS OUT OF THE QUESTION!!!

What's really amusing is listening to working people demand that other working people's pay and benefits should be as shitty as their own.

American healthcare's deathbed accusation.

It's Lo Pan!!

This is a "nation of finks".

follow that logic and you'd realize the "service economy" is a bunch of bullshit... Hi, I'm your realtor!

Because paying people a living wage to provide social services IS OUT OF THE QUESTION!!!

This is like, so totally weird, because like, the exact same people who've been fighting public sector unions have also been trying (and succeeding) in cutting funds for the care of drug abusers, mentally incompetent, social welfare programs, after school programs, battered women, etc. Y'all are like for all this shit now?