Comments on: About That Flushing Sound

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:56:55 +0000

The about-to-retire crowd in Washington enable the MIC to sell this crap to the government in hopes of landing a job after they get out. That needs to be stopped.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:27:15 +0000

from what my ex-military acquaintances tell me, even the military doesn’t care all that much about it’s people’s lives.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:44:54 +0000

I really hated the crap they pawned off on the military at absurdly inflated prices. They really don’t care that people’s lives depend on what they sell to the government.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:18:26 +0000

war is terrific, if you're a robber baron. they've got their own economy

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:04:52 +0000

When you throw in all the people who have just stopped looking and have moved into the underground economy, it’s at least that, Badtux. The undocumented get counted on the “employed” side, but don’t get included in the “unemployed” numbers, so you know the number is worthless.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:41:40 +0000

PS — if you look at the real unemployment rate reported using OECD definitions of under/unemployment (e.g. including unemployed engineers who are currently saying “will there be fries with that sir?” while looking for a job in their real field), it’s now above 12%. The “5%” unemployment rate is the “fudged” statistic that’s used to lie to the American public. The “real” unemployment rate *had* dropped to below 10% at one point in the recent past, but it’s shooting up far faster than even the fudged one.

– Badtux the How-to-lie-with-statistics Penguin

By: Badtux

Badtux — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:39:07 +0000

All the better for turning the “soft” police state we currently have (where the iron fist of the State is carefully cloaked in layers of velvet to hide its nature) into the real thing, doncha think? Destroy the economy, get people desperate, people will even turn to thugs like Saddam Hussein as their savior as Iraq proved back in the 1990’s when the U.S. insured that Saddam would stay in power by bombing the Iraqi economy into rubble in ’92/93.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:08:03 +0000

Obviously the top 1% are investing in oil, gold, and Euros, because nothing else is paying off. With a liquidity crisis the rate paid for savings is contemptible and unrealistic. The banks are hellbent on “inflating” their way out of debt.

Yes, Michael, the Republicans have even managed to make war a loser for the economy. Amazingly talented group. They only groups who seem to profit are the corporations and cronies.

Abraham Lincoln was last Republican President who actually supported the troops. Since then, Republicans have supported the military-industrial complex and claimed it was for the troops.

Normally fascism comes as a result of financial crisis, this time they reversed the process.

By: fallenmonk

fallenmonk — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:35:16 +0000

Hey, but the top 1% of the population is much better off today than 7 years ago…and just look at executive salaries and oil company profits…you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.

By: andante

andante — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:27:30 +0000

Heresy!

Republicans are better for the economy, better for the troops, better for snuggling up to oil despots and wrangling the best deals, better for minorities, better for defending the poor, and better for protecting investors!!!

Silly boy.

/snark