say ....whaaaaaaaat
"Between the 1960s and 1990s
the percentage of Americans
who felt:
"the government is run
by a few big special interests
looking out only for themselves"
doubled to 75 percent
yup
3/4 of old hickory's
liberty nation
knows its near powerless
and so it does. what ????
.......NOTHIN
accordin to this pundi-tatter
3/4 s of us all
take it
and act like we likes it
just
like the shrimp
takes his daily ram
on cell block six
well i say
...whaaaaaaaaat !!!!!!!!!
==================================
here's
ALL FUSS AND FRAGGLED
Bradford Plumer assistant web editor
of Mother Jones:
" Does economic inequality matter
all that much?
Some economists would say no
As Anne Krueger
of the International Monetary Fund
said in 2002,
"It seems far better
to focus on impoverishment
than on inequality."
"Americans seem to agree
polls suggest that most people
in the United States aren't bothered
by inequality per se
so long as everyone
has a reasonable chance
to move up the income ladder
through hard work
and a bit of ingenuity"
------- mobility opportunity
and big pay offs ----------
" the only kind of inequality
that really bothers Americans
is political inequality"
------- and yet ...---------
" the public has increasingly
felt that to be the case "
-------- really
great
the mass of the little people
feel they're
losing power .....
shit
thats been felt on and off
around here
since shay's rebellion
the question is
they think they're losing it
alright then to who ???
maybe its not the rich per se
maybe the hoi say
the rich there always with us
its the ...--------
------- but first lets plod along
with our host here ...---------
"Between the 1960s and 1990s
the percentage of Americans
who felt :
'the government is run
by a few big special interests
looking out only for themselves'
doubled to reach 76 percent "
------ okay
but resolve the conflict
created by your own phrases here
if 3/4 s know the political deal
is getting more ' unequal'
what actions prove
it "really bothers" em ???
or do they figure
these "big special interest"
have enough interests in common
with the little people's interests
to rep em
say in beating back
' cretain other special interests '
unequally gaining influence
or at least beating em back
enough of the time
to let these bottom line oligarchs
continue their top ride
at least
till further ballot box notice
but to continue .....-----------------
" Why is the government being run
by a 'few big special interests'?
increasingly
a tiny portion of the population
has an inordinate amount of wealth"
--------thats the view of the 3/4 s
its a growing rule of the rich ????
that and that alone ?????
all we gotta fear is
the growing wealth share bulge
at the top of the social pole ????
well according to our man that's what ...------
" Political scientists are converging around "
------ the supporting evidence ???-------
" over the 25 years
Between 1979 and 2003,
the income of the richest 1 percent
of Americans more than doubled,
the income of the middle 15 percent
grew by only 15 percent,
and the income of the poorest 20 percent
barely budged "
" By the late 1990s
the richest one percent of Americans households
had a third of all wealth in the economy
and took in 60 percent of the country's income
a greater share than at any point
since the Great Depression"
--------okay we'll stipulate that part
wealth got more unequal after the vietnam war
as it did after the civil war
as it did after
the first world war ------------
---
but hey
a princeton prof claims
he finds evidence ...-----
" even when Democrats controlled Congress.
Senators were very responsive
to the preferences of the upper third
of the income spectrum
and completely ignored the policy preferences
of the poorest third of Americans"
------ as an example
this guy
( Bartels)
claims to have ..-------
" discovered that senators
were only likely to vote
for a minimum wage increase
if and when their wealthier constituents
favored it
the views of those directly affected
by the hike had "no discernible impact"
------- is it as clear as the link
between smoking and lung cancer ????
if so you got a 30 year fight left ahead of u -------------
-------- but forget domestic policy
how about the great game ....-------
" Lawrence Jacobs of the University of Minnesota
and Benjamin Page of Northwestern
found that that the foreign policy views
of the executive and legislative branches
are primarily influenced by business leaders
policy experts
whose think tanks
are often funded by businesses.....
.... the views of the broader public
have essentially zero impact on the government
when it comes to tariffs, treaties,
diplomacy or military action"
---- again
u think facts matter
giving off
with the evidence shit
bet you
the corporate science crowd
has a study
that shows no relationship here at all
what say u ???
besides the perception of powerless
already exists whats your point
to prove who benefits from gub action
we all know its corporations
the question is
why the hoi even knowing
they're powerless don't fuckin do somethin about it
as in
this is not....
my beautiful democracy ----------
" The political theorist Walter Russell Mead
famously argued that "Jacksonian" nationalism
in the heartland drove American foreign policy
the data doesn't back him up
Business still runs the world "
---- 'still' thats an odd addition
to your prsentation
one has to guess u mean
the biz runnership of the state pre dates
the last 25 years
then
all this added
wealth unequalizing
was lilly guilding...
state power wise
so why the fan fare ????? -------
----------- now with the donorocracy bit --------
"the average Senate campaign in 2006
will cost about $10 million, minimum,
in the 2000 election,
95 percent of all campaign contributions
came from households making over $100,000"
----- but here's where the real smelly camels nose
finaly sticks itself under the tent side
theres big interests congealing
below the biz klass....------------
"there are more well-educated Americans
in rapidly-growing professional societies
than there are lesser-educated workers
in trade unions"
-------hey why don't the light dawn here...
maybe these are the target fucks
the professional klass
the new morality reformers
and nose holders
the i love a cannibal
but i think u stink crowd
maybe they are the power grabbing bothersome bunch
over at
white hoi majority house
maybe these self important prickles
even more then dilberts boss
are the ones the little guy hates
the one's they fugure
is forcing uncle
to give these bad rub downs
maybe its the party of
eat your spinach
that is the greater evil
maybe defeating
or at least rolling back
these secret martian's designs
is the best the people
can get
fuck at least
the biz bombers
wack the fuckin
nanny dearest fuckers
maybe
defeating
that supercilious cunt brigade
with the mortor boards on their heads
and the gleaming coat hangers
in their hands
maybe clobbering them
makes a corporate lobby congress
bareable
at least they'll blow that fuckin
poised hanger gang out of the water --------
------maybe
dealing with todays
variety of male and female peckerwoods
its no longer necessary
the biz elites bow
be4
any
ass kickin
jacksonian democracy
maybe today that
would be excessively
indulgent
and completely
wasteful
maybe all
the board room big shots need
is to sponsor
a few
jacksonian class and race circuses
a twin bill
first show
knock a few high horse
fems and fruit pickers
off their mighty pink ponys .. ..
guys like
ole glass lantern
john kerry
or that pop eyed big faced
judgemental lass
high C hillary
and as the main feature
give the pale knuckle draggers
a new uncle sam
screamin eagle production
blazin action
sun drenched locales
lots and lots a hoverin copters
roaring and blowin sand
and
at the climax
a cast of thousands
no tens of thousands
of fuckin
rag clad
bomb blast fleeing duskey limbos "
hey it works ...
sure it gets old
sure the donk spawl
comes in handy
when rest is called for
now and again
giving the lesser head
a shot
only works
to hold the fort all the better
yup
its poetry in motion
we crap out
and
then we force
them bent over donkey phd's
pick up our shit piles
and they can go on pickin it up
till damn it
we're ready once again
to roll for glory
with frustration
sometimes all you need
is a nice distraction
give most dinks enough side show
and the pot in their head
won't boil over
fortunately thats only true
most of the time
there are those jubilee moments
and folks i feel one a coming
Posted by pinky at April 20, 2006 07:15 AM