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kpete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:42 AM Original message |
The Middle Class Game Is Up: We're Heading to a Slave Labor Planet |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:51 AM Response to Original message |
1. Sometimes people think having money is bad. |
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Newest Reality (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:52 AM Response to Original message |
2. Joe has had his finger |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:06 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Yep |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:01 PM Response to Reply #2 |
34. k and r |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 12:54 AM Response to Reply #34 |
47. his mom is a vanderbilt heiress ($4 million+). plus she made more money with her ugly, early-times |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 10:13 AM Response to Reply #47 |
57. Thanks for |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:57 AM Response to Original message |
3. Amazing article. Incisive and insightful. |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:22 AM Response to Original message |
5. It didn't just start with Eisenhower. FDR and Truman set up GATT (now the WTO) to promote trade. |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:45 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. +1 for sanity |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 12:56 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Let's bring RB McTexas and the Pron guy in on this! nt |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 12:55 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. The US has been involved in a virtually unbroken chain of wars since WWII; your theory is falsified. |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 01:04 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. You're right, the US has. Of course, Korea and Vietnam were mainly about anti-communism. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 01:15 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. In other words, to secure those mythical "free" markets. nt |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 02:17 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. If you wish. Europe has been peaceful for 65 years with "free" markets (and trade), first |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 08:28 PM Response to Reply #14 |
29. The notion that those Asian wars were about Communism is naive. |
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dotymed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 08:29 AM Response to Reply #12 |
50. To me |
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whattheidonot (301 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 02:13 PM Response to Reply #5 |
17. politics of it. |
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Bonhomme Richard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
7. Is it time for a worldwide minimum wage? |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 02:16 AM Response to Reply #7 |
48. That would expose the lie. |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 12:26 PM Response to Original message |
8. Who will they sell stuff to? -nt |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 08:29 PM Response to Reply #8 |
30. The up-and-coming Chinese. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
9. Nat that Americans get it |
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jxnmsdemguy65 (481 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
10. Only thing I've been able to find in two years is door to door sales... |
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Kurovski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
11. K&R. (nt) |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
16. K&R |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
19. K & R nt |
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waiting for hope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
20. K&R |
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abelenkpe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
21. We need global labor unions. nt |
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Goldstein1984 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 11:27 PM Response to Reply #21 |
41. There is one - The Wobblies |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 09:10 AM Response to Reply #41 |
53. Are they still around??????????? |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
22. Well fucking duh. |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 04:03 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Solidarity with that statement. |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 03:45 PM Response to Original message |
23. People who consider themselves educated and politically astute on DU can't even see |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 09:13 AM Response to Reply #23 |
54. I call it willful ignorance. I don't know how they accomplish it given the cognitive dissonance? |
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bread_and_roses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
25. Great Big K & R here !!!!!!!!! |
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ProgressIn2008 (848 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
26. K&R |
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tonysam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 08:16 PM Response to Original message |
27. Neoliberalism is the ruination of the world |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 08:21 PM Response to Original message |
28. Clinton deserved a mention. :-) |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
31. It's already happened - we're debt slaves |
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dotymed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 08:58 AM Response to Reply #31 |
52. Really Ironic |
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pleah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 08:46 PM Response to Original message |
32. K&R |
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kohodog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
33. The System |
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WillYourVoteBCounted (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
35. North Carolina schools considering selling naming rights to corporations |
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 12:52 AM Response to Reply #35 |
46. Damn if I'm... |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 08:10 AM Response to Reply #46 |
49. How 'bout "Hooters High." |
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MkapX (76 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:38 PM Response to Original message |
36. End the race to the bottom! |
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scentopine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
37. Agree - another bomb tossed at us from our super filthy rich CEO |
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undergroundpanther (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 11:09 PM Response to Original message |
38. soup is good food |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 08:38 AM Response to Reply #38 |
51. That song. Just for a moment let us admit it decades old. |
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liberation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 11:22 PM Response to Original message |
39. THEN STOP VOTING FOR MILLIONAIRES! |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 11:25 PM Response to Original message |
40. K&R n/t |
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Goldstein1984 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
42. We control production, we control consumption of nonessentials |
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liberation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 12:01 AM Response to Reply #42 |
44. I would hope that at least more people start realizing that labor is a real asset, capital is not |
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Goldstein1984 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 12:46 AM Response to Reply #44 |
45. It is obvious, which demonstrates the human capacity for denial |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
43. Deleted sub-thread |
blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 09:25 AM Response to Original message |
55. Mebbe this is what it takes.... |
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icee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 09:51 AM Response to Original message |
56. Every President post Eisenhower has progressively destroyed |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
58. kick for later |
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