In These Times

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• • 05 Dec 09
  • 8:48 pm

  Well, no shit, Moberg. What was your first clue? Now that you understand the cost to workers, what are you going to do about it? Marxist politicians and commentators, wrapped in their confining ideological cocoons, seldom achieve even your limited level of understanding. Or they create a crisis in order to do things they could not do before. First, you might start with the dynamics of previous downturns. In 1965, LBJ passed the War on Poverty as a part of the Great Society programs. That sounded good. Everyone is opposed to poverty, right? But the Democrats' War on Poverty did not …

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• • 26 Nov 09
  • 1:41 am

  So, what if the government was color-blind genetically but not politically? After all, millions of blacks (and whites, and browns, and yellows) were not targeted by the police or FBI, only those that were red politically, or otherwise criminal, regardless of their skin color. And you admit this in the small print (quasi-Marxist). You might have pointed out that Dohrn and the Weathermen were terrorists and killers as were some of the Black Panthers, but that would have destroyed the premise of the article; all these innocent young terrorists were attacked by the nasty old police, who were, after all, required …

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• • 29 Nov 09
  • 9:37 pm

  Weathermen members Kathy Boudin, Judith Alice Clark, and David Gilbert attempted to rob a Brinks truck and killed two policemen and a guard, they were sent up to long prison sentences. But the low death rate from Weathermen bombings was mostly due to the Weathermens' stumblefart incompetence, such as the Greenwich Village accident. "Off the cops" was not just a saying with the Black Panthers. Dozens of Panthers died fighting the police, and a number of police, innocent victims of Black Panther crimes, and Black Panthers, victims of internecine warfare, died, mostly in the 1960s and 1970s. Black Panther H. Rap …

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• • 07 Nov 09
  • 11:11 pm

  This mania for looking on the bright side has given us the present financial collapse; optimistic business leaders—assisted by rosy-eyed policymakers—made very bad decisions.

  Damn! I could have sworn it was the Democrats who did that. Wasn't it LBJ and Democrats in congress that gave us the War on Poverty? $6.6 trillion dollars was utterly wasted over a thirty-year period, there was substantial destruction of poor, mostly Black, family life in the USA, and there was a legacy of crime and drugs among displaced males when women were paid only if there were no males in their households. The whole …

  Posted to The Dark Side of the Bright Side

• • 29 Oct 09
  • 8:20 am

  I love reading Sirota's stuff. He is such a fucking idiot. With all due respect, of course. A Party With No Punch? How can you say that? In nine short months, the Obama Progressives have utterly wasted over a trillion dollars on a stimulus package and other financial nonsense that has only stimulated the unemployment rolls, as planned. Their domestic and foreign agendae are doing exceedingly well, by Marxist standards. They will get a wasteful, corrupt, destructive, ineffectual health care bill and call it victory, but the recent global cooling has proven global warming to be a fraud and a deceit, …

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