House of Paine

delongeurs sniper

here's fun for the frosh at heart ....

neolib back slapping 

breeds an archie comment  


brad:

this poison vallentine review
is very fine indeed 

what a sly inverted pose you strike here

a credo incognito 
stealth attack 
on mother's milk
ie
DLC POLICY WONKERY 

clever as sin m.o.:

make yourself 
your own straw man 

make yourself 
the sacred porter 
of the very tom fool 
jejune self satisfied merit klass ideas 
you most want to see 
burned at the stake 

or is that too generous
a read of your subtext ????

but then it must be so

how else explain the howlers

all previously caught here in comments 

my fave 

"the neoliberal imperative: 

lower barriers to trade and contact; 
lower barriers of all kinds; 

lower barriers 
in the expectation 
that faster economic growth
will itself generate countervailing pressures
that will undo and cure 
the bad social and distributional side-effects of faster growth"

i had a football coach once 
who called it like that....

as we "feeebs "
jogged clodhopperishly around the rim of the grid iron in our gear 
looking like so many idiot bobble heads 
lap after lap 
there'd come the inevitable 

' hey slink you goose
whats up with the sinking swan act ???
u got a cramp ....????
well
run it out boy 
run it out "

and that "running it out 
is not just for nicaragua 
nigeria and bangla-desh ....

we too oughta count on
"runnin' it out "

20 years 
of ever faster productivity growth 
created our inequality
and ever even faster productivity 
growth will cure inequality
growth cures its on ills 
all by itself 

"the population of the United States is growing slowly...."
(' all the better to value add per head my dear' )

"The desirability of the United States as a place in which to locate economic activity is growing rapidly..."
( ummmh wait you'll see ..you'll see )

"the underlying engine of technological progress is spinning faster than it has in at least a generation"

(is or ...was ??)


" I see rising working- and middle-class incomes in America during the next generation generating ...
a virtuous, not a vicious, circle" 

( and the sea will part before us ) 


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ps
nice word "growth"

i'm pro growth 
aren't you ??

who's growth u ask ??

why lump sum growth 

like it or lump it 

pro growth 
covers lots of mental ground 
doesn't it 
if you knock down all 
"the barriers of thought"
that keep it contradictory 

say it loud and proud 
and it can seem like ...
the road to the new jerusalem


no the air strip to flying laputa 

so campesinos listen up

build it straight 
build it l0ong 
build it flat 
and when we take off
without u 
don't worry
u'll be on the next flight for sure 
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i can only conclude 
you went at this review 
with such bare footed 
jethro beaudine like joyousness 
intentionally 
to make a pie simple 
mockery out of neoliberalism 


and that u 
cryptically share 

the views of "Joseph E. Stiglitz" 

that is the views 
of 
" our Nobel Prize-winning
non-neoliberal friend "