Thursday, June 30, 2011

"THE GREAT SPEEDUP"

Check out this article in Mother Jones. It summarizes pretty well some things I and others have been saying and writing about for the past several years.

15 comments:

Robert Berner said...

Lal--Your readers might also want to take a look on the Mother Jones website at Andy Kroll's article on the role of right-wing think-tanks in the anti-union/anti-workers'rights
campaign so clearly exemplified by the attacks on teachers and teachers'
unions all over the country and the
assault on public employee unions in Wisconsin.
Bob B.

Lally said...

Thanks Bob.

Miles said...

Kroll's Mother Jones article


Above is a link to the article Bob B. mentioned. Yikes.

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JIm said...

Lally,
Have you noticed how comments have dropped off as your "Conmnent Deleted" have increased. Why is that so? Do you think cencorship, even on a small scale is boring? Do you think that previous supporters, like Wawaukee Something, John Lally and a couple or other liberal supporters find you inadequate?

Are you used too and comfortable with your economic inadequacies(sp). How does it feel to be a second class economic theoritition who has been proven wrong many times over the last 300 years.

Robert G. Zuckerman said...

Haiti, Japan and Africa have all but disappeared from the "news" - instead we are fed what Kim Kardashian is wearing.

Jim, you'd like to think that your being deleted has a bearing on readership. That's a laugh.

Lally said...

I'll leave the rightwinger's last comment in since you responded to it Robert. But as for readership, I've never had a counter on this blog because I write it for myself and anyone else who might be interested so I don't care how many people read it or don't. It's all ultimately just recycled energy anyway, but it gives me an outlet for my thoughts and opinions and to share them and my experience(s) with anyone who might be interested. And anyone who uses the comments section to spread the same rightwing lies you can find on any rightwing radio or TV show or blog or whatever, will be deleted. Which I would have done but I don't want to leave Robert's comment with no context for it. Though the second paragraph in the rightwinger's comment is so scrambled and illogical it's not that easy even to see the obvious lie in it. But in fact, despite the incredible variety and sheer volume of experiences I've had in my lifetime so far, I am not 300 years old...yet.

Lally said...

PS: Don't misunderstand my last comment about not caring how many people read this blog. I certainly care deeply and am moved and humbled by those who have let me know they read it either through comments or e mails or telephone messages etc. Many are people whom I love and admire, including those whose lives and accomplishments are certainly greater than mine. I appreciate every one of them. But in the end, I write it for myself, to ease the plethora of ideas and perspectives that constantly crowd my mind, even in its post brain surgery mode. And for anyone reasonable enough to get whatever it is I'm sharing, whether they agree with it or not.

Robert G. Zuckerman said...

Michael, your deletions are an exercise of your Constitutional right that Jim so vigorously puports to espouse. He erroneously refers to your deletions as "censorship"

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Robert Berner said...

"Jim" ought to be bright enough to figure out that if he doesn't want to be deleted he should only write to right-wing blogs. Surely they'd agree with him and not delete his comments.
Bob B.

Lally said...

Or, Bob, he could write something that didn't parrot rightwing falsehoods (i.e. if tax rates for the wealthiest return to what they were before Bush/Cheney, i.e. under Clinton or Reagan, the economy will be ruined when all the statistics show the opposite and just plain common sense will tell you that under Bush/Cheney the so-called "middle class" suffered, losing their share of the wealth and working more for less, while the wealthiest among us only got richer and jobs not only weren't created they were lost by the millions).

Robert G. Zuckerman said...

anything is possible, Michael (i.e. Dennis Miller's putzhood), but don't hold your breath.