We Must Resist This Insanity

[Resistance Radio]

Run time: 03:59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn6089D4YvA   Posted on YouTube: January 03, 2011 By YouTube Member: MistrBrit Views on YouTube: 15   Posted on DU: January 03, 2011 By DU Member: Resistance Radio Views on DU: 904

 

[AsahinaKimi]

1. The right wing in this country

Has no compassion for babies that are not their own. They labeled them "Anchor Babies" or "Terrorist babies" because they think they are potential threats to the future of our country. They tried to destroy health care for all including children, and frankly don't care about any children that are outside our borders. They pretend to demand that babies, yet unborn, should have their protection, but once born, want nothing to do with them. I am sure if Child labor was legal in this country, they would be the first to employ them at nearly non existent wages.

[DeSwiss]

2. K&R

It ain't robbery, it's a business cycle

Capitalism is about one thing: aggregating the surplus productive value of the public for private interests. As we have said, it is about creating state sanctioned "investments" for the workers who produce the real wealth. Things like home "ownership" and mortgages, or stock investments and funds to absorb their retirement savings. That crushing 30-year mortgage with two refis is an investment. So is that 401K melting like a snow cone at the beach.

As the people's wealth accumulates, it is steadily siphoned off by government and elite private forces. From time to time, it is openly plundered for their benefit by way of various bubbles, depressions or recessions and other forms of theft passed off as unavoidable acts of nature/god. These periodic raids and draw downs of the people's wealth are attributed to "business cycles." Past periodic raids and thefts are heralded as being proof of the rationale. "See folks, it comes and goes, so it's a cycle!" Economic raids and busts become "market adjustments."

Public blackmail and plundering through bailouts become "necessary rescue packages." Giveaways to corporations under the guise of public works and creating employment become "stimulus." The chief responsibility of economists is to name things in accordance with government and corporate interests. The function of the public is to acquire debt and maintain "consumer confidence." When the public staggers to its feet again and manages to carry more debt, buy more poker chips on credit to play again, it's called a recovery. They are back in the game.

~ http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2010/07/waltzing.html">Joe Bageant, "Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball"

[chervilant]

3. hmm...

There are people on DU who've proffered a recent op-ed by Frank Schaeffer as proof that our economy is in recovery. Obama has rescued our nation, according to this strange man and his DU sycophants. While I strongly encourage optimism, this unrealistic assessment of our economic situation is akin to believing that the moon is made of a lovely green cheese.

[DeSwiss]

4. Frank Schaeffer is full of shit.

I posted a rebuttal at HuffPo on his article's page, but I had no illusions that the mods would let it through. And they didn't. Even today over at HuffPo they've posted another article which says: "http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/03/unemployment-2011_n_803473.html">Record Number Of Americans Have Given Up Looking For Work".

Yet when one cites these types of facts, one gets accused of being "all negative" and "concentrating on anything negative if it'll make Obama look bad" (as if that were necessary). They end up sounding just like the 20%ers who stood by the sinking ship of George W. Bush.

As http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/opinion/28herbert.html">Bob Hebert said, citing a study from the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers: "More than 15 million Americans are officially classified as jobless. The professors have been following their representative sample of workers since the summer of 2009. The report on their latest survey, just out this month, is titled: “The Shattered American Dream: Unemployed Workers Lose Ground, Hope, and Faith in Their Futures.”

Hebert goes on to say: "There is a fundamental disconnect between economic indicators pointing in a positive direction and the experience of millions of American families fighting desperately to fend off destitution." He went on to say further: "We are witnessing the birth of a new class — the involuntarily retired. Many of those over age 50 believe they will not work again at a full-time ‘real’ job commensurate with their education and training."

Maybe I am wrong and they're right. Maybe I'm just focusing on the negative and need to join HOPE & CHANGE bandwagon. Maybe I didn't read the article well enough and Mr. Schaeffer was just trying to let us know that he's found 15 million forgotten people new jobs!

- Or maybe I was right all along. Someone important once said: "A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house."

[Stand and Fight]

5. The music ruined it for me. Couldn't even finish. n/t