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@Maxrot: I did it by not having kids.
What I don't understand is even giving egotistical idealogues like Bay Buchanan :-(, Wayne Root :-(, Matt Welch :-(, Peter Pitts :-( and Gainor a place to be heard. A kitchen table is a kitchen table, WHY talk to it, it's serves useful NO purpose, NONE.
Right @Gene, us feisty Americans may be the last hold out- and even more so ...us pesky [progressives....we would drive the engine to unseat these demagouges.
I still can't understand how more and more wages are being drive down, yet the cost of living keeps going up, and pundits say our economy is gaining strength.
Am I missing something, are they lieing or buying their own propaganda? I don't care how many times someone tells me the sky is green and the oceans are green... facts are facts, the sky is blue (turning brown though) and the oceans are blue (turning black now).
How am I supposed to buy a 1/2 Million 3 bedroom house, support a family of 4 and earn a median wage?
How are you doing it?
N
Hmmm ... don't foreigners already serve the ruling class by taking care of their food and cr4p?
Did that guest seem like a job recruiter to you, or a Jack Welch in training? The same old story,,,,Americans are too stupid and lazy to take care of themselves. ............What goes unreported is the corporate requirement to become dependent upon them. They pass laws and licensing requirements that make it impossible for us to wipe our own asses.
"Maa'm....sorry- Haliburton has a contract to wipe your ass...step away from the toilet paper."
Now it's a fortune to go to college. Not only that, increasingly the funding for academic research, and the very infrastructure of the institution itself, is coming from the same corporate sources that are decimating our economy.
Not picky; a brief scan of the title would lead some to think it was not today's page.
@Maxrot- they just love those false choices dont they? What next, foreigners to feed and diaper us?
I should have my student loans paid off when I am in my grave. I have set up several businesses that have gone well, worked for a number of corporations....work work work until I am dead, hardly any social life....and every time there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel some a hole figures it out and blocks my stream of income.
I am a degreed computer engineer that fell out of engineering when the internet bubble burst (2001). My refusal to work for the military has left precious few jobs available. I worked call center jobs till the economy collapsed, the work was outsourced and quit my last position because I just couldn't dun people for a megabank. That megabank did nothing for their customers for a year after huge bailouts (except what was required by law). I still have student loan debts. Re yesterday's program - lol - I am working temp jobs to get by and bidding small contracts to try to re-establish an engineering career.
Keep after it Thom - the subsistence economy is upon us.
@mstaggerlee, yes we have a page today, will we have the bloggers though?
Anyone else listening to the KTLK stream? I'm getting both a live and delayed feed, with about a 10 sec delay between. VERY disconcerting!
Picky,picky, Gene - at least we HAVE a page today!
Thanks - Gene...oops...
Daily topics date is incorrect - Thursday May 13
Do I want the best Doctor or an American Doctor?? What the hell is Welch talking about? I prefer the best Doctor, not the cheapest Doctor available that can fill the position, and he's completely bypassing that point.
N
Well, lets' stop sending seniors to school!
Unfortunately, especially when senior citizens are involved, it seems like schools are the FIRST place we look to economize.
I like the thinking there notherway: Just cap it dammit.
BP seems to be in a world of hurt now. Their top-of-the-line exploration rig sunk to the bottom and likely onto the riser pipe which is broken somewhere. On the one hand the capture box doesn't work to capture the oil a mile down. On the other hand the supposed next best plan to 'drill another well to plug the first from below' will take over a month. On the gripping hand: Why can't they just plug it or bury it somehow? Or why not put a microwave heater in the freaking capture box to melt the methyl hydrate slush if that's the probllem?
I think they only care $75 million dollars. They also will spend some on damage control PR. So they are still madly trying to pretend the spill away while their corporate lawyers try to get everyone to sign away their right of redress. There is a basic lesson about lawyers here: The bad corporate (BP, TransOcean) lawyers are circling victims like sharks while the oil is still spewing out. The good trial lawyers were ready (Papantonio, Kennedy, et al.) and have already sued for redress on behalf of fishermen, resort owners, resort workers, coastal property owners, etc. Hopefully they will be able to get injunctions against similar disasters in process.
I can see the rule-of-law analogy from today's show playing out like this:
A lack of rule-of-law-for-people+creation in Somalia allowed waste dumping which wiped out fishermen who became (or were press-ganged) into piracy.
A lack of rule-of-law-for-people+creation in US allowed giant growing oil slick which will wipe out fishermen who will fall (or be forced) into temp jobs.
Heck the Gulf Coast fisherman probably already have off season temp jobs. If BP gave a rats ass they would already have hired ALL the fishermen for a temporary boom-a-rama. I'm pretty sure that BP has neither the necessary 1000+ of miles of booms nor enough oil recovery ships, but they could've bought, hired and rigged that up by now if they cared about the Gulf Coast people and ecology. But BP cares only about $75million worth which is, after all, a tiny pimple on their >$10 Billion profit. They simply won't care unless made to experience reduced profits by rule-of-law, but even then any corporation prefers the law which says they must care about profits first. They will NEVER care more than it costs them or they aren't good capitalists right?
Hurricane season is beginning in a month.... awwww shiiiiit!!!!!
N
In this very moment are we not acquescing to corporate power? We are leaving the containment and news of the containment up to BP. Thus the strategies implimented are those that serve the corporation rather than the environment. BP should be directed to just forget about the investment and future monetary value of the well, pull out the pipe and plug it with a narrow angled cone shaped plug.
Hell of a placebo that prolotherapy ... More like a Frankenstein hybrid of homeopathy and the placebo effect. I appreciate the good idea of stimulating healing. I bet there are less invasive ways to do it though.
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