Via Steve M, a brilliant idea: If the battle between Republican Gov. Scott Walker and his GOP allies in the state legislature and the public employee unions of Wisconsin government is Ground Zero for the struggle for America’s future, where is Sarah Palin? … Palin has an unmatched capacity to motivate millions of Americans to …
Fuck The Middle-Class
Greeted as liberators all over again
If you don’t think that Serious People want to dismantle the social safety net, you’re not paying attention. Here’s Bobo in a column that conflates the current budget problems with down-the-road entitlement issues: This is not like fixing Social Security in the early 1980s. The current debt problem is of an entirely different scale. It …
Middle-class young bucks fucking around on Facebook instead of building wealth
David Brooks says the Chinese will destroy us because today’s “Jareds” screw around on Facebook all day instead of working long hours like their grandfather “Sam”: Sam entered a world of iceboxes, horse-drawn buggies and, commonly, outhouses. He died in a world of air-conditioning, Chevy Camaros and Moon landings. His life was defined by dramatic …
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That Used To Be an Outrage
Adding to what DougJ said, I’m old enough that I remember it was an outrage when you called American workers lazy: Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa`s remarks Monday that American workers lack drive and a strong work ethic not only elevated the war of words between the world`s two biggest economic rivals, they highlighted a …
Strapping young bucks not looking for work
Remember that if fiscal austerity helps keep the unemployment high, it will just be “structural unemployment” resulting from the laziness and ineptitude of the American working class (via): It really makes you despair: we’ve been over and over the evidence, and there’s not a hint in the data that a mismatch between occupations and jobs …
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