Posted on 05/23/2005 8:23:04 AM PDT by JBW
It was a carefully staged Norman Rockwell scene. The street was lined with American flags; a high school band played "God Bless America."
Then, under the watchful gaze of Wal-Mart's chief operating officer, Maryland's governor vetoed a bill that would have obliged large businesses to spend more on employee health care.
The news here isn't that some politicians wrap their deference to corporate interests in the flag. The news, instead, is that Maryland's State Legislature passed a pro-worker bill in the first place. In fact, the bill passed by a veto-proof majority in the Maryland Senate, and fell just short of that margin in the House.
After November's election, the victors claimed a mandate to unravel the welfare state. But the national election was about who would best defend us from gay married terrorists. At the state level, where elections were fought on bread-and-butter issues, voters sent a message that they wanted a stronger, not weaker, social safety net.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Confused? You're not the only one.
Socialism has been dead for at least 20 years. But it lives on in the Economics Departments of a few college campuses and on the editorial page of the New York Times.
more at http://www.jonathanbwilson.com/2005.05.01_arch.html#1116861493108
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"Socialism has been dead for at least 20 years. But it lives on in the Economics Departments of a few college campuses and on the editorial page of the New York Times."
Also seems to live on in the minds of 15-20% of our population, they whine so much that they are heard more than our side.
And the NYT expects people to pay extra for this junk?
...and Howard Dean backs a socialist candidate. Good to see the Dems are realigning themselves with mainstream America.
This is just a case of Paul going "old school" on us by forgetting that we have multiple independent media sources that were not available 10-15 years ago. His pool of ignorant patrons has shrunk considerably, yet he still thinks the fix is on. The burden of enticement over directive must be more difficult for him than we could imagine.
BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA... Stop! Yer killing me!
Socialism continues its advance in the U.S., even while Republicans are in control. I can only guess it's what the people want.
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Makes me sick to see elite pretend they know aboput "workers".
It might be dead, but both the Republicans and Democrats have been doing a Weekend Decade at Bernie's and dragging it around and making us support it.
Well, FR prohibits me from using profanity, personal attacks, or advocating violence in my posts.
So I really can't tell you what I think of Paul Krugman.
But you can use your imagination...
This guy may very well end up in a mental hospital because his hate for President is making him go absolutely MAD.
He's already in a mental hospital, but it has all inmates and no attendants. It's called Princeton.
"This guy may very well end up in a mental hospital because his hate for President is making him go absolutely MAD."
How can they do that? He can't be told he's crazy or nutso or mentally ill. And he might not understand "normal-challenged" or "in-need-of-our-help."
A couple of years ago, during a panel discussion moderated by Russert on CNBC, Krugman faced off against Bill O'Reilly. Krugman was so scared and purturbed that he was literally twitching and shaking during the most heated parts of the battle.
Socialism has been dead since at least 1989, when Berliners pulled down the wall separating East and West.
Since then the Soviet Union has dissolved into a pastiche of struggling market economies. Russia still gives off mixed messages, but the private ownership of capital means that, absent state re-appropriation, Russia will have at least some semblence of private ownership for years to come.
China doesn't even pretend to be communist anymore. China's economy is growing as private business harnesses that country's workforce with the power of technology. There is a substantial tension, to be sure, between its burgeoning market and its one-party state, but the invisible hand of the free market is more likely than not to resolve that tension in favor of capitalism.
Throughout the world the debate is largely between the extent of privatization rather than over privatization itself. No one (other than in academe and the New York Times) seriously pretends that a centralized command-and-control economy is a viable option to capitalism.
Krugman is stuck in a time warp.
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