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solarhydrocan

(551 posts)

4. Sir James Goldsmith warned

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Thu Jan 16, 2014, 07:28 AM

Jan 2014

no match for the vibrant young Al Gore. But Goldsmith had what Gore and D'Andrea Tyson will never have.

Watch as Sir Goldsmith dukes it out with Laura D'Andrea Tyson-
former Chair of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton Administration (end of part 2).

D'Andrea Tyson tries to bully a man who had more sophistication and smarts in his little finger than ever existed in D'Andrea's entire life.

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Trans-Pacific Partnership: The Fast Track to Poverty [View all] xchrom Jan 2014 OP

Not a fast track to poverty for the 1% and their bought and paid for representatives in Washington Fumesucker Jan 2014 #1

+1 xchrom Jan 2014 #2

X a billion. WinkyDink Jan 2014 #18

oh c'mon. nobody even knoooows what's in TPP! anyway, it's all about soybeeaaaans! KG Jan 2014 #3

Sir James Goldsmith warned solarhydrocan Jan 2014 #4

By now it should be obvious to all that Goldsmith was exactly correct. Enthusiast Jan 2014 #5

This should have HUNDREDS of recommendations. Come on people. Enthusiast Jan 2014 #6

As is typical, Perot was a republican politician who used existing trends to appeal to fear-monger. pampango Jan 2014 #7

Don't bother. DU is convinced US manufacturing doesn't exist Recursion Jan 2014 #9

I had fact-free beliefs. I always think of that as a republican mentality. "Repeat a lie often enoug pampango Jan 2014 #11

Look, if we don't give the rich everything they want, they won't let us eat the crumbs... Octafish Jan 2014 #8

Wages went up after NAFTA. Up. Recursion Jan 2014 #10

What do the numbers show without CEO compensation? Octafish Jan 2014 #12

Median wages. Median. Not average. Recursion Jan 2014 #13

Here's a graph of the wages of nonsupervisory workers from Paul Krugman. pampango Jan 2014 #15

and can that be attributed in large to NAFTA? cali Jan 2014 #14

Probably not but it is inconsistent with a narrative that NAFTA lowered American wages which is what pampango Jan 2014 #17

"how can you feed sparrows without a horse?" MisterP Jan 2014 #19

k/r marmar Jan 2014 #16