tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post9012979319695355352..comments2024-03-29T02:03:49.151-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: The Revolutionary RoadDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-11912294571739478422011-02-21T16:11:04.063-05:002011-02-21T16:11:04.063-05:00CNN's Candy Crowley somewhat surprised by Dona...CNN's Candy Crowley somewhat surprised by Donald<br />Rumsfeld's ignorance of Obama's good global image<br /><br />http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/<br />02/donald-rumsfeld-candy-crowley-cnn-obama-<br />image-.htm<br /><br /><br /><br />Priceless !!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-65828883614549807092011-02-21T11:18:20.809-05:002011-02-21T11:18:20.809-05:00How? STOP THE WARS. Stop supporting the polluter...How? STOP THE WARS. Stop supporting the polluters with taxpayer dollars. Really crack down on white collar crime. Begin a new investigation into 9/11 and actually take our former President, Vice President, et al, to task for their criminality. Penalize the media heavily for LYING. And, although I hate to agree with Ron Paul on anything, believing him to be racist, AUDIT THE FED...and the PENTAGON.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07554702105975150741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-11083942248428934532011-02-21T10:26:20.915-05:002011-02-21T10:26:20.915-05:00Most of the fair-handed GenX population steered aw...Most of the fair-handed GenX population steered away politics. Instead, our greatest minds have created and leveraged a new digital economy.<br /><br />The fact American leaders (mostly Boomers) bailed out it's own failures is a joke to many of us. If our leaders don't take our country and economy seriously, it'll most likely be ignored as long as possible.<br /><br />Of course, the younger, "gold-star-golden children", GenY, will gladly do the bidding of the Boomers, as earlier latch-key GenX, en masse, are in this squeeze...<br /><br />"Because we've broken all of our BEST rules..."<br /><br />peace-<br />seanroxseanroxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02752887532982670808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-27990376098427711882011-02-20T22:26:19.665-05:002011-02-20T22:26:19.665-05:00As an independent and pro union for private sector...As an independent and pro union for private sector<br />businesses the lessons these public servant unions<br />and their lackey politicians have to learn is enough<br />is enough. Its time public servants feel some of the<br />pain that a lot of us taxpayers are feeling. We're <br />not asking them to give up their first born child, all<br />we're trying to do is trim some of the over the top<br />generous benefits public servants have been<br />enjoying for the past 30 years. We cannot and must<br />not continue on this path to economic ruin by<br />improving public servants salaries and benefits on <br />a year to year basis on the backs of the taxpayer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-88793084288257039542011-02-20T20:54:11.874-05:002011-02-20T20:54:11.874-05:00Following on to Gerald Meaders' remark: It re...Following on to Gerald Meaders' remark: It really isn't clear to me that these new Republicans truly **do** believe that they're going to usher in some golden age of "entrepreneurialism". To me, all their talk about it has always had all the sincerity of a Brezhnev tribute to the Victory of the Industrial Proletariat.<br /><br />Their true goal is quite simple: The business class should have complete, unchallenged and unchallengeable hegemony in American society. Increasing, or even maintaining living standards for the great bulk of Americans isn't even on their radar.<br /><br />It's asset-stripping time. The best thing to do is cozy up to some Russian, and pump him for survival tips when the oligarchs start looting.<br />-- sgloverAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-69714558818853615822011-02-20T18:37:13.398-05:002011-02-20T18:37:13.398-05:00Those fire eaters may all become pawns in a great ...Those fire eaters may all become pawns in a great boomer end run. <br /><br />There is plenty of time for a grey champion to emerge. Even a Ron Paul may surprise us all. <br /><br />Another cycle to remember is the one for empires that Rein Taagapera wrote about. America could get larger and enter a new high much stronger. That is the example of the British empire after our succession.<br /><br />Taagapera, Rein<br />1968 Growth Curves of Empires. General Systems 13: 171-175<br />1978 Size and duration of empires: systematics of size. Social Science Research 7: 108-27.<br />1997 Expansion and contraction patterns of large polities: context for Russia. International Studies Quarterly 41(3): 475-504.L Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05594113850737174795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-17212441476405670002011-02-20T13:43:56.043-05:002011-02-20T13:43:56.043-05:00Plunge us into *another* recession? Why, sir, this...Plunge us into *another* recession? Why, sir, this is recession, nor are we out of it.Patricia Mathewsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-59489939474509176002011-02-20T13:01:20.974-05:002011-02-20T13:01:20.974-05:00The fire-eaters in the Republican Congress--McCart...The fire-eaters in the Republican Congress--McCarthy, Ryan, and Cantor, to name three--are all Xers. So is Palin. So is Scott Walker in Wisconsin and some of the other governors. Our political moment is passing.David Kaiserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-64405561251368030912011-02-20T11:47:36.955-05:002011-02-20T11:47:36.955-05:00David, while I agree with your concerns about Obam...David, while I agree with your concerns about Obama and his obvious Xer traits, most of congress is still Boomer, and, Boomers still lead much of America's larger corporations.<br /><br />In the American colonies during the Glorious Revolution many reactives made bold moves only to end up in prison or hanged. <br /><br />And yes, this crisis has many similarities to that one. <br /><br />http://ageofintuition.blogspot.com/2011/01/boomers-are-still-in-charge.htmlL Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05594113850737174795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-18042193165109141472011-02-20T09:57:41.971-05:002011-02-20T09:57:41.971-05:00Professor:
Great stuff.
This was my most favorit...Professor:<br /><br />Great stuff.<br /><br />This was my most favorite passage, in a commentary filled with them:<br /><br />'They and their constituency have imbibed the false lessons of thirty years of free-market propaganda and talk radio. They apparently honestly believe, wrongly, that cutting and eliminating agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the Environmental Protection Agency will unleash a wave of entrepreneurship.' <br /><br />Most unfortunately, 'democratic' processes of indoctrination have been going on here, throughout this period. (Goes back even further than say the 80s; to the early post-Cold War period: 'strategic' laissez faire, and consumerist 'trade not aid' capitalist, anti-Communist, ideology themes, for example. <br /><br />Large corporations saw an opportunity to further enhance their profitability, and freedom of manoeuvre, under such a globalist, anti-nationalist, international regime.) <br /><br />Very hard ideologically to derail such a system of interrelated ideas institutions, large powerful MNC entities, and powerful foreign connections, at this point. <br /><br />Most Americans really believe this stuff about entrepreneurship.<br /><br />All the best,<br />GMBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.com