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How Class Works (Richard Wolff) (Original Post) deutsey Mar 2015 OP
Banks--actually, the hedonistic corporate megalomaniacs who OWN the banks--always, chervilant Mar 2015 #1
+1 deutsey Mar 2015 #2
And any candidate who tells us one of our biggest problems is poverty & inequality while at the same mother earth Mar 2015 #3
ANY support for the chervilant Mar 2015 #4
This is fair warning... MrMickeysMom Mar 2015 #5
UHH. Thiry years ago? maddiemom Mar 2015 #6
''And probably with a vengence.'' ~Richard Wolff DeSwiss Mar 2015 #7
In the souls of the people, the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy shaayecanaan Mar 2015 #8
''Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves'' ~Confucious DeSwiss Mar 2015 #9
Orwell shaayecanaan Mar 2015 #10
Pacifism implies an enemy. DeSwiss Mar 2015 #11

chervilant

(8,267 posts)
1. Banks--actually, the hedonistic corporate megalomaniacs who OWN the banks--always,
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 10:53 AM
Mar 2015

always, always, always--have I said always enough?!?-ALWAYS get their money!

These vile cretins decided to "tap" the "sub-prime" market, and you can rest assured they skirted the thin edge of their "social responsibility of properly assessing risk" when they made this decision. They tanked the global economy, and we're still experiencing the repercussions.

I agree with Mr. Wolff: we have to face the fact that "free market capitalism" isn't beneficial to the vast majority of humans on this planet. We MUST demand fundamental changes that benefit the seven billion of us living on this planet.

mother earth

(6,002 posts)
3. And any candidate who tells us one of our biggest problems is poverty & inequality while at the same
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 12:09 PM
Mar 2015

time espouses continuing along the same status quo (support for TPP) and offers no real solutions takes its citizens for fools.

Indeed, we are fools if we cheerlead for TPP, or any corporate candidates, if we accept & echo the manufactured talking points of centrism and right wing crap, to glorify candidates who are nothing more than cheap commodities, bought & paid for by big monied interests.

K & R



chervilant

(8,267 posts)
4. ANY support for the
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 01:54 PM
Mar 2015

Confederacy of Dunces who've usurped our media, our politics AND our global economy is indeed foolish!

I wonder, though, how many of us will wake up and smell the hummus...

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
5. This is fair warning...
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 02:25 PM
Mar 2015

The system that managed to sustain itself (unfettered capitalism) over the past 30 years is now hitting American working class over the head with a vengeance.

Is it any wonder that the working class will return that lobby in kind?

Do you LIKE being worked to death, Mr. and Mrs. American work force?

I'm about 4 years before "retirement" (no, I won't be getting a pension, as the same system assured that I had no bargaining chip to ensure such an agreement).

I'm being squeezed to death to survive. Because I'm strong, I will survive. But, what about all those skilled workers who are paying off the loans to re-train them to survive a little longer? What's it gonna look like in another 10 or so years for them?

Anybody remember the lure of being able to afford what you can't by Master Charge?


 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
7. ''And probably with a vengence.'' ~Richard Wolff
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 05:21 PM
Mar 2015
- Probably. The irony is it doesn't have to be vengeful, but we can't see the forest for the trees......

K&R

shaayecanaan

(6,068 posts)
8. In the souls of the people, the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 07:58 PM
Mar 2015

growing heavy for the vintage.

shaayecanaan

(6,068 posts)
10. Orwell
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 03:17 AM
Mar 2015

"Since there is no real answer to the charge that pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist, nearly all pacifist literature... specialises in avoiding awkward questions"

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
11. Pacifism implies an enemy.
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 06:29 AM
Mar 2015
- Except we're the ones responsible for letting things get this way as much as anybody. It doesn't avoid the question, it renders it moot.

“Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission.

How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. ”


~V

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