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17506 [lbo-talk] The Empire's Freedom -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >VOLCKER, PAUL A Don't forget, the A is for Adolph, as the supply-siders used to point out! Doug

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17507 [lbo-talk] Why are the US-ers such assholes? -- rank: 1000

[this was prepended to the entire contents of the digest, pushing its length from 2k to 27k - please don't do stuff like this] From: "Celi Ben" <cpthron at hotmail.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Why are the US-ers such assholes? Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 03:08:14 +0000 Chuck0 My parents watch Fox News and listen to Limbaugh constantly. ___________________________________ My mother does as well: it's EXTREMELY strange. The first thing she does in the morning is turn on t ...

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17508 [lbo-talk] The Empire's Freedom -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >i recall reading somewhere that volcker contributed money >to kerry campaign, dem faction of 'ruling class' includes certain >investment bankers, urban real estate developers, hollywood >moguls, a veritable egalitarian base... Yeah, that's the "advanced" wing of our bourgeoisie - our Bloomsbury. Doug

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17509 [lbo-talk] The Empire's Freedom -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >winning these two fundamental democratic rights - to unionize and to vote In America, both those things are pretty fucked. Doug

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17510 [lbo-talk] Republicans think of building walls, denying citizenship -- rank: 1000

[these guys are fucking monsters] GOP mulls end of birthright citizenship <http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20051104-114949-2535r> WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- House Republicans tackling illegal immigration were reported looking closely at ending birthright citizenship. They also were discussing building a barrier along the entire U.S.-Mexican border, The Washington Times said. Those two ideas have floated to the top of the list of possibilities to be included either in an immi ...

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17511 [lbo-talk] New toy -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >I put this on my site: http://www.frappr.com/ > >It was a huge hoot, for me at least. Y'all might want to do one for the >list. Ok, just set it up. <http://www.frappr.com/lbotalk>. Doug

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17512 [lbo-talk] The Empire's Freedom -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >liberal house dems created democratic study group (dsg) Which Newt abolished after the '94 sweep, along with other groups funded out of House money. Doug

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17513 [lbo-talk] re: a Delphi worker on Delphi -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Or at the state level. Or any other level. > >My argument is that this can be won only under radically changed >political conditions, and that the change necessary would _not_ be a >smooth line but a jump. Hence there will _never_ be a time when it is >(a) possible to win single payer at the state (or national) level but >(b) _not_ possible to win a national health service. > >I've not been able to dream up a good metaphor for this, but try the >f ...

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17514 [lbo-talk] GS on 'wage inflation" -- rank: 1000

DAILY FINANCIAL MARKET COMMENT 11/03/05 Goldman Sachs Economics * Chairman Greenspan believes that globalization has held down wages and unit labor costs in recent years, but that the effect is only temporary. As the integration of emerging market workers into the global labor market nears completion, he sees upward wage pressures reemerging. * To assess the potential importance of globalization, we look at a modified version of our long-standing nominal wage growth model. It has overpredict ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 4 14:01:51 PST 2005

17515 [lbo-talk] See Al Sharpton Dance! -- rank: 1000

The best thing Freddy Ferrer ever did: <http://images1.istandfor.com/images/FE/chain182siteType8/site141/client/Salsa%20-%20Sharpton.mov>. Doug

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17516 [lbo-talk] A hundred grand a year??? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Why so much difference between this estimate from 2004 and the >figure that Doug cites from this year (which can't be accounted for >by COLA, etc.)? Ok, a BLS guy explained the difference to me. The Current Employment Statistics (CES) - the numbers that come out in the monthly employment report - includes overtime and incentive pay in its definition of wages; the OES, just base pay. The page for motor vehicle manufacturing, a more comparable classification, is a ...

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17517 [lbo-talk] Re: The Empire's Freedom -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >Doug writes: > >> The ruling class hated the 1970s because it >thought it was in danger of losing the class war, >or at least failing to win. That was the reason >for Volcker and the recession of 1980-82. > >When you have a moment, could you expand on >these tantalizing, but cryptic (to me) sentences? > >I was not up to speed with my leftist economics >back then (I was just trying to be gay, young >and fabulous LOL). A worthy pursuit! ...

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17518 [lbo-talk] US Ruling Class -- Where Do Their Wealth Come from? -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: > >Mostly the US I'd say. Most corp profits are still domestic. But the >>trend is towards more internationalization, and there'd be few >>domestic profits if the rest of the world weren't kept in order. >> >>Doug > >In order how? You mean by suppressing production and development? Or other >ways? If a significant portion of the world opted out of global capitalism, it's doubtful the US would be as rich as it is. Less trade, ...

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17519 [lbo-talk] The Empire's Freedom -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: 13 posts Tuesday. 5 posts Wednesday. 9 posts Thursday. 12 posts so far today. The limit is 3 per day. Doug

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17520 [lbo-talk] Katrina evacuees -- rank: 1000

[this is from the statement of Kathleen Utgoff, commish of labor statistics, on today's employment report - "October" refers to the survey week, that containing the 12th, as is the case every month] I'd also like to discuss some preliminary findings on the employment status of persons directly affected by Hurricane Katrina. Shortly after the hurricane struck, Bureau analysts, together with our colleagues at the Census Bureau, devised a short series of hurricane-related questions for in ...

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