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8641 [lbo-talk] spending twice what you make -- rank: 1000

On Feb 11, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > [WS:] Hackery aside, I am wondering how can so many > people afford so many things they buy - expensive > cars, MacMansions, electronic gadgetry, 100+ channels > of expensive televised crap, shop at malls and > overpriced boutiques etc. and on the top of eat out, > attend expensive sporting events and so on. Borrowing, of course.

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Date:	Mon Feb 11 11:08:05 PST 2008

8642 [lbo-talk] spending twice what you make -- rank: 1000

On Feb 11, 2008, at 1:04 PM, Michael McIntyre wrote: > The most likely sources, I think, are errors in measurement, working > off the books, and assumption of greater consumer debt. There's no doubt underreporting of income. Poor people work off the books or they would starve. And no doubt a lot of people in the bottom quintile are borrowing money or liquidating savings because of some personal crisis that threw them into poverty. But, as the Census Bureau notes, most of the understatem ...

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8643 [lbo-talk] Dem-o-graphics -- rank: 1000

On Feb 11, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Charles Brown wrote: >>>> Doug Henwood > <http://www.gallup.com/poll/104263/Education-Gender-Help-Predict- > Democratic-Preferences.aspx> > > Education and Gender Help Predict Democratic Preferences > College education a major differentiator in choosing Clinton vs. Obama > > ^^^^ > CB: Kind of odd that they didn't check out whether race predicts > preference. Americans are so scared of race. <http://www.gallup.com/pol ...

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8644 [lbo-talk] spending twice what you make -- rank: 1000

On Feb 11, 2008, at 12:37 PM, JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: > This article from Sunday's NY Times claims that the bottom fifth of > households (by income) spend on average twice what they earn. > Oddly, the authors don't include 'interest' as an expenditure > category, but is this anywhere near right or does it just reflect a > lot of underreporting of income when your income is fairly informal > to begin with? Or is it just magnifying what it's reporting by > ignoring asset ...

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8645 [lbo-talk] WGA ok's deal -- rank: 1000

NEWS ALERT from The Wall Street Journal Feb. 10, 2008 The negotiating committee of the Writers Guild of America voted unanimously to accept a new tentative three-year deal with the major Hollywood studios, according to a person familiar with the situation, clearing the way for final approval of the agreement by film and TV writers who have been on strike for more than three months. The full board is meeting to discuss and vote on the contract, this person says. The WGA has scheduled a pres ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 10 11:53:55 PST 2008

8646 [lbo-talk] signs -- rank: 1000

"I'd rather be waterboarded than vote for McCain" and other signs/ shirts at CPAC: <http://www.examiner.com/blogs/Yeas_and_Nays/2008/2/10/Top-Ten-CPAC- Signs?cid=email-blog>

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Date:	Sun Feb 10 11:51:07 PST 2008

8647 [lbo-talk] Dem-o-graphics -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2008, at 8:58 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Saturday 09 February 2008 20:26:43 Doug Henwood quoted: > >> PRINCETON, NJ -- Gender and education are both strong predictors of >> Democrats' preferences for their party's presidential nominee. >> Generally speaking, the more education a Democrat has, the less >> likely he or she is to support Hillary Clinton, and the more likely >> to support Barack Obama. > > A fine argument for the pernicious effe ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 9 18:18:36 PST 2008

8648 [lbo-talk] Dem-o-graphics -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/104263/Education-Gender-Help-Predict- Democratic-Preferences.aspx> Education and Gender Help Predict Democratic Preferences College education a major differentiator in choosing Clinton vs. Obama by Frank Newport and Lydia Saad PRINCETON, NJ -- Gender and education are both strong predictors of Democrats' preferences for their party's presidential nominee. Generally speaking, the more education a Democrat has, the less likely he or she is to support Hillary Cl ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 9 17:26:43 PST 2008

8649 [lbo-talk] sugar mamas hunt boy toys -- rank: 1000

<http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=75875&videoChannel=3> Feb. 8 - Rich older women meet hot young men at a speed dating event in New York. Five thousand men applied for the chance to meet women who earn over half a million dollars a year and have at least 4 million dollars in assets. Only 20 were chosen. Fred Katayama reports.

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8650 [lbo-talk] I hope you all vote(d) for Obama -- rank: 1000

These are pointless and annoying. Goodbye. Doug On Feb 9, 2008, at 1:33 PM, g.a.s. wrote: > http://rcrawford79.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/wrestling-goldberg.jpg > > Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > I do have a positive suggestion. Let's not discuss the fucking

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Date:	Sat Feb 9 10:45:41 PST 2008

8651 [lbo-talk] Obama, community organizer -- rank: 1000

On Feb 8, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > Is this excerpt supposed to be convincing? It's complete > bullshit. Lots of questions and innuendo, no answers. The point is that Obama's spell as a community organizer seems to have amounted to nothing, other than his being adopted by some high- end foundations that greased his entry into the Harvard Law School, via a lakefront condo. Several serious left-wing types have cited his community organizing experience as actually meaning ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 8 18:19:14 PST 2008

8652 [lbo-talk] Obama, community organizer -- rank: 1000

[link originally posted to Lou Proyect's Marxmail] <http://www.blackcommentator.com/ 263/263_represent_our_resistance_activist_obama.html> Community Activist, Obama and the Few Bad Apples on the Night Shift Represent Our Resistance By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD BC Editorial Board [...] Senator Barack Obama seems to have thrived during the Reagan years. As I read of his community organizing and community activism in Chicago, I am remembering those Reagan years well. The Black commu ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 8 14:07:02 PST 2008

8653 [lbo-talk] BHO's latest endorsement: Kim Gordon -- rank: 1000

[this one breaks my heart - I've had a crush on KG for more than 20 years! "more realistic"? "straight talker"?? "I really like his wife"] <http://wonkette.com/354372/sonic-youths-kim-gordon-joins-obama-youth> SHE USED TO BE COOL Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon Joins Obama Youth But what do noise/punk/grunge pioneers Sonic Youth think of the 2008 Democratic race? Kim Gordon is inspired by Barack Obama, that s what! She will support him, she tells Wonkette s Liz ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 8 13:18:47 PST 2008

8654 [lbo-talk] Medicare saves lives -- rank: 1000

[the implication for national health insurance is pretty clear] "Does Medicare Save Lives?" NBER Working Paper No. W13668 DAVID CARD, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) CARLOS DOBKIN, University of California, Santa Cruz - Department of Economics NICOLE MAESTAS, RAND Corporation The health insurance characteristics of the population changes sharply at age 65 as most people ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 8 12:19:17 PST 2008

8655 [lbo-talk] Subpriming the Neoliberal City -- rank: 1000

On Feb 8, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Claire Pentecost wrote: > This unique housing initiative was developed with the nonprofit > advocacy group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now > (ACORN). FCRC has also agreed to build 600 to 1,000 affordable > ownership units dedicated to low- and moderate-income families, > either on- or off-site, with a minimum of 200 of those on-site. > > > (And what is the deal with ACORN? are they totally corrupt now or > really doing ...

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