Billionaire Scion Tom Friedman.......The "World is NOT Flat for HIM!

Nor is there any evidence from Sirota's piece that he is even an heir. Admittedly I read it fast, and I certainly am no fan of Tom Friedman, but having just observed Sirota's making a mistake in reading a NYT story detail then going off on a (wrong) riff about it, I have to question his data on this one. I hate being given false info--there's enough that's bad out there without getting stuff wrong.

and write books about how "since the world is flat" we Americans should "accept lower wages" so that the "emerging Third World" will feel "comfortable."

So...forget GM Salaries/Union Salaries that gave American's a "living wage" or "above" and that allowed our kids to go on and get higher education.

Friedman speaks from his 11,700 square foot house that rivals FDR and Rockefeller times of the "GILDED AGE" and expects us to think whatever he says isn't BULL CRAP from the "Folks on the Mountains" telling the "Flood Zone" how to accept their "lot in life?"

You see NO PROBLEM with this...Fiedman's Lifestyle? :eyes:

I said I was no fan of Friedman's--and that's based on his writing and his ideas. They are bullshit without even knowing what his lifestyle is.

My problem is with Sirota's sloppiness. It undermines his credibility as a reporter of facts.

living in a house that's SO BIG FOR HIM...one wonders if the built in "intercom" can allow him to talk to his wife and kids?

FAT CAT FRIEDMAN who wan't ALL OUR WAGES HERE IN AMERICA TO BE FLAT...just so he can write books while his RICH WIFE CUCKOLDS HIM!!!

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! the HYPOCRACY OF THAT JERK.

Let's move on to both Russer and Matthews and their "GE PROVIDED" MANSIONS on Nantucket...shall we?

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let me say once more how much I LOATHE that bloated little bindlestick

The Free Market Fundies worship the Almighty Free Market so devoutly it's rediculous. I was listening to BBC Radio on the internet and the story on the collapse of the Doha talks was one big Free Trade circle jerk (that isn't suprising, the UK has historically worshiped free trade more then any other nation), one economist takling to the anchorman sounded like he was saying that the collapse of free trade that resulted from the aftermath of WW1 caused WW2 and that free trade fostors world peace. How deluded can these people get? :banghead:

was a "good thing." It was an article talking about how WTO not getting
DOHA approved was a relief for all the people of the world who thought that the WTO's idea of "Free Trade" was huring them economically.

I'll look for it..but don't have time to do it tonight. It was one of the most uplifiting articles I've read recently and for DU'ers who have "populists" for the "little person" sympathies it would make you smile.

Who cares what the BBC and Bush and Blair and the rest think. It was a win for those who've been picketing the WTO for years!

Now, if we can just pick ourselves up by our "bootstraps" and throw off the "Think Tanks" and "Globalists" who think they know better than "We the People" we might have a start to remaking a better world. At least it's a goal to work for since we know who screwed things up in "warp speed" and don't have to wait years to read about it in the history books too late to do anything about it.