Modern prosperity is possible because education, social legislation and welfare policy, as well as unions and the law, made it possible for workers to create a labor market of their own, as well as the safety net which made it possible for them to make owners have to compete for workers. The free market helped the workers, but first they had to break the stranglehold the employers had over it. The whole modern conservative program is designed to put the brakes on this natural evolution and return, as much as possible, to a nineteenth century model of industrial serfdom.
How long do you think our comfy middle class jobs will last under the assault of automation, outsourcing, free trade, and all the other corporate technological and social maneuvers, as well as the legislative and judicial mechanisms which will implement and institutionalize them? Why do you think Pedro and Gupta are after our jobs? It ain't no liberal plot, Jack, its business.
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You're the virtual time traveler. Go back and check it out for yourself.
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- Bush calls for moment of silence... while he putts
- No one suffers more than the president.
- Yep
- Every man needs a hobby
- Not the point...
- How Bush plays golf is interesting.
- Somehow, playing golf "silly" seems a contradiction in terms. (n/t)
- A Victorian Nostalgia
- Very subtle ER...........
- Progress and Saturday morning TV
- re: Progress
- Shock and Awe
- Oh, give it a rest.
- Ownership of the means of production.
- re: Ownership of the means of production.
- Jeez louise...
- Ownership of the means of production.
- Oh, give it a rest.
- Shock and Awe
- re: Progress
- Progress and Saturday morning TV
- Very subtle ER...........
- A Victorian Nostalgia
- Somehow, playing golf "silly" seems a contradiction in terms. (n/t)
- Every man needs a hobby