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14251 [lbo-talk] how to work for Wal-Mart -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Nathan Newman wrote: >>The New York bill >>would bring such phaseout to a complete halt for all employers covered. > >-Manufacturers are exempted, because of competitive pressures. > >Yes they are, as is agriculture and as are small employers. > >The bill would only help half a million workers get health care. > >How useless. > >How shameful. > >Screw those 500,000 workers. > >Single payer or nothing. That's not the f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 14:19:48 PST 2006

14252 [lbo-talk] doom -- rank: 1000

The sort of union-based realpolitik that Nathan Newman & John Lacny are defending is a perfect example of why density is going to zero. It all may make some sort of bureaucratic sense in the short term, but in the long term it's doomed. There's still some time though: given the current rate of decline, private sector union density won't hit 0 until sometime in late 2030 or early 2031; at 7.7% in 2005, it's falling at the comfortable pace of just 0.29 percentage points a year. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 14:13:58 PST 2006

14253 [lbo-talk] TNR: universal health care now! or how to work forWal-Mart -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I actually think of Krugman in a different class from TNR. TNR is tied >directly to the DLC types that are mounting a massive flack job for >Wal-Mart. Krugman is a smart guy who oozes prestige and who is mostly an orthodox economist. If he's saying these things, we should give thanks. >Doug-- you may live in the theoretical world Not the last time I checked. I may not live in your world, but I'm pretty well oriented in time and space. I don't quote the transiti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 13:09:20 PST 2006

14254 [lbo-talk] how to work for Wal-Mart -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The New York bill >would bring such phaseout to a complete halt for all employers covered. Manufacturers are exempted, because of competitive pressures. >And tell me why a single payer initiative pushed at the state level won't go >down in flames like the 1994 California initiative did? That campaign was >a real one, spending $3.2 million with lots of support from major unions in >the state. If at first you don't succeed, try something useless and counte ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 13:05:12 PST 2006

14255 More on the "Universal Coverage" flacks Re: [lbo-talk] TNR: universal health care now! or how to work for Wal-Mart -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Doug (and others)-- you're being played for fools if you don't understand >what this whole upsurge in talk about "universal coverage" is all about. >It's about mandates on individuals and Health Care Savings accounts and, at >best, subsidized vouchers. So TNR was lying when it said: >It's time for the government to be much bolder, to try something >even more far-reaching than what it attempted in the '60s: making >health care a right, not a pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 13:03:37 PST 2006

14256 [lbo-talk] how to work for Wal-Mart -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >How do the single payer folks on this list expect to win? That's what I'm >not hearing. Zero strategy, zero power analysis. Hmm, how does the UFCW expect to unionize Wal-Mart? A weak, dim union against a corporate powerhouse. Do they have a strategy, an analysis of power? But what kind of questions are these? How do you ever expect to win a political struggle? The ancient holy trinity - agitate, educate, and organize. If the unions that are now wasting time on this ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 12:53:14 PST 2006

14257 [lbo-talk] Gallup: most agree war a failure, time to get out -- rank: 1000

[and all without much of an antiwar movement] March 17, 2006 Three Years of War Have Eroded Public Support Majority of Americans want U.S. troops home within a year by David W. Moore GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- On the eve of the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the American public is far different from the one in March 2003 that expressed widespread support and confidence in the Bush administration's quest to overthrow Saddam Hussein. When the war began, most American ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 12:40:33 PST 2006

14258 [lbo-talk] South Park-Scientology update -- rank: 1000

<http://www.variety.com/VR1117939918.html> Inside Move: 'South Park' feeling some celeb heat? Cable net abruptly pulls repeat of Scientology episode By MICHAEL FLEMING The battle between "South Park""South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Scientology is escalating. The dust-up gained steam last week when Isaac Hayes, a practicing Scientologist who has long been the voice of the character Chef, quit after objecting to a "South Park" episode called ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 12:34:22 PST 2006

14259 [lbo-talk] Paul Krugman in NYC for PNHP -- rank: 1000

[from Physicians for a National Health Program] Tuesday, May 30- RECEPTION 6 pm- FORUM 7 pm Paul Krugman, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University, Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times will speak on "The Health Care Crisis & What To Do About It" at the Community Church Of New York, 40 East 35th Street, Manhattan, sponsored by NY Metro Chapter of PNHP and Action for Justice Committee of the Community Church of NY, co-sponsors: Metro New York Health ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 09:58:50 PST 2006

14260 [lbo-talk] permanent bases in Iraq? -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> The Wall Street Journal's "Washington Wire" by John Harwood drills down on the latest NBC/WSJ poll numbers and includes one headline that will make DCCC Chairman Rahm Emanuel smile almost as much as a UTA and Endeavor merger: "Democrats enjoy favorable issue terrain for midterm elections" LINK Speaking of Emanuel, the DCCC Chair has taken a lot of heat for having said "at the right time we will have a positio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 08:12:02 PST 2006

14261 [lbo-talk] Bob Jones University Sacks Starbucks -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > > FOX Carolina's Jamie Guirola reports, Starbucks has a very >> open and accepting policy toward gays. The company also >> offers benefits to domestic partners. Still, this Corporate >> Equality Index or buyer's guide from a group supporting human >> rights gives Starbucks an 86 out of a perfect 100. > > >Lefties, take note. That is much better than the Democratic Party, the >people who brought you DOMA. I really don't ge ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 07:43:51 PST 2006

14262 [lbo-talk] TNR: universal health care now! or how to work for Wal-Mart -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >That would still be massively inefficient. Patchwork schemes like >this have much higher administrative costs, and are far more >complicated for people to deal with, than a simple universal public >program. And I forgot to mention the efficiency gains from global budgeting - the monopsony power of a single purchaser negotiating lower prices on drugs, equipment, and services. There's a good reason why drugs cost less in Canada. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 07:40:19 PST 2006

14263 [lbo-talk] TNR: universal health care now! or how to work for Wal-Mart -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Or maybe they promote an unobtainable "leftwing" position precisely to blunt >the quite obtainable "fair share" bills moving through state legislatures >across the country, which would tax businesses to pay for health care, >rather than dumping the costs on the already burdened public till-- with no >new tax revenues to pay for it. A bunch of "centrist" Dem organizations, >like the New America Foundation, coincidentally sudd ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 07:23:28 PST 2006

14264 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [PEN-L] Kevin Phillips: declinist -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote (of peak oil): >So the doomsayers may have a point here. Maybe they do. But remember that scenarios often follow prices rather than leading. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 16 19:33:41 PST 2006

14265 [lbo-talk] TNR: universal health care now! -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Yes, but this editorial doesn't quite come out in favor of single-payor, >does it? They don't use the words - which is interesting, given their call for "liberals" to get bold on this - but they still come pretty close: >And, into this vast, disturbing intellectual void on what is >arguably the most important domestic issue of our time, the >Democrats are proposing ... well, not a whole lot. >It's time for the government to be much bolder, to try so ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 16 19:31:38 PST 2006