amerika's greater exploits

here's a golden state
econ con  zink 

trying to big foot 
past the  great amerikan
white male  wagery reem
UNDER WAY SINCE 
AT LEAST
THE MID SEVENTIES

if you read carefully
enough
you see 
  he's not even 
pushing for  
the  usual 
 neo -progressive vision
            of a "renewed"
           " social democratic project" 
  cause i think
   he don't believe 
its really possible any more 

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 read it and reel it
                 pokes 


thiz voice
iz straight

" from on high"

collage prof 
  brad  delong guy

fuck meister extra ordinaire 

my wish...

he getz 
a savage 
delowerin'
in to a boiling pot
or a rusty blade 
  deballin' 
behind the local Target super store 

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" Social Democracy, Anyone?"
  by 
J. Bradford DeLongdong 
  posting  
   on this tenth day
of december 
in the    year of our lord 2004 
       
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" Almost all of the world’s developed countries
 consider themselves, and are, social democracies:

 mixed economies 
with very large governments 
performing a wide array 
of 
welfare and social insurance functions,
 and removing large chunks 
of 
wealth and commodity distribution 
from the market."




 The United States is something different.
                       Or is it? 


Whatever it has been in the past

 
the United States 
in the future
will have to choose
 whether, 
and how much, 
it will be a social democracy.



------------no comment 
beyond thiz :

so far 
its like the arrival 
 at a card party  
  of a guy  
blowin on  a tuba -------------
---------------------------------------------------------

Once upon a time,
 according to mythology at least, 
America had little downward mobility

----unless you wre a red skin a mexican an african a ....---

In the generation after World War II
 you could secure 
a blue-collar unionized manufacturing job
 or climb to the top 
of a white collar bureaucracy 

---------so much for the tewo great amerkan working klases----

that offered job security, 
relatively high salaries, 
and long, stable career ladders

--------------- nice tale ---------------------

This was always half myth.

----------thank u --------------


in the first post-WWII generation, 
only a minority of Americans

a largely white, male minority

found well paying stable jobs
at large, unionized, capital-intensive 
manufacturing companies like GM, GE or AT&T.


But if this story was half myth,
 it was also half true,

--------------- no since its a male white minority 
its decidedly less then half true------------------------------- 

 Largely independent 
           of 
education or family, 
those -------"some of those"----- Americans 
 who did value stability 
and security could grasp it 
in the form of jobs with “a future.”

 Even for those not so lucky,
 economic risks were usually fairly low:
 the unemployment rate 
for married men 
during the 1960s averaged 2.7 percent,
 and finding a new job 
was a relatively simple matter.

------------- what a smooth ride ---------------------

 It was during this era
roughly from 1948 to 1973
that sociologists found 
that a majority of Americans 
had come to define themselves
 not as working class,
 but as middle class.


--------------- a  pre bunkerish
              life of riley --------------------


-------------------------------
The post-WWII period 
stands as a reference point 
in America’s collective memory

----------- as well it might -----------------

 but it was in all likelihood 
an aberration.
 -------------here comes the alibi for the reem ----------------


 In the early postwar decades,
 foreign competition exerted
 virtually no pressure on the economy,
 owing to the isolation 
              of 
America’s continental market 
from the devastation of WWII 

---------- isolation?
   try heavy export pal
with heavy foreign lending 
in a global market
far from isolated
but where 
you could only spend 
the loan to buy yankee built shit by the way this ended be4 we got jfk ------------- 

 At the same time,
 the war left enormous pent-up demand
 for the products of mass production
                 : cars, washing machines,
 refrigerators, lawn mowers, 
television sets and more.
------------ are u proposing 
that we ain't got enough demand now ?-----------

Government policy back then
 began with a permanent military program
 of
 spending and R&D 
and continued 
through massive public works program
 and suburbanization,
 underpinned by 
the Federal Highway Program 
and subsidized home ownership loans 
from the Federal Housing Administration.
 The regulatory institutions 
and behavioral norms 
that originated in the New Deal 
and developed during WWII 
came into full force:
 Social Security,
 a system of unionized labor relations,
 market regulation.

---------- ie de facto asocial democracy ----------------------

Favorable macroeconomic circumstances,
 the absence of foreign competition,
---------these were indeed temporary boons 
but not irreplace able --------------------

 a system of government support
 and regulation,
---------------- maybe -------------------- 

 large-scale private provision 
                of 
what in Europe would have been 
public social insurance 


-------------more like  half and half i'd say 
but okay....------------


all combined to give post-WWII America 
many of social democracy’s benefits 
without the costs. 

The economy did not stagger
 under the weight
 of ample benefits 
or high taxes.

---------this is just non sense
taxes were highest
 when this system worked best
           in the late 40's -----------

 Americans—at least white,
 male Americans—
did not have to worry about 
tradeoffs between security and opportunity
 because the United States 
offered the advantages of both.

 Corporate welfare capitalism 
substituted for what in Europe 
would have been 
government provided 
              social democracy.

---------here's an interesting contrast 
corporate werlfare vs state welfare
                long run diff
one's easier to take away -------------------

----------------------------------------------------

America was thus a special place.
 It had its cake and ate it, too:

 a combination of security 
with opportunity and entrepreneurship.

---pure pie mush --------------

 It seemed that this 
was the natural order of things. 

Hence there was little pressure 
for government-sponsored social democracy: 
Why bother? 
What would it add?

Now things are very different.
 The typical American employer
 is no longer General Motors. 
It is Wal-Mart. 

------------ corporate welfare 
requires different conditions
okay
but why assume  state apparartuses 
are any less 
up for the chopping block
  no deal with the kaps

officialstate promises
 prperty rights
 or private conscience 
none of this shit 
has any greater validity ----------- -------------------


Private businesses 
are providing their workers 
with less and less 
in the form of defined-benefit pensions
, health insurance, 
and other forms of insurance 
against life’s economic risks.

-----ya but why ?---------------


Sharply rising income 
              inequality 
has raised the stakes 
of the economic game.


------------the cost of  losing
 a job yes but europe 
has this worse then us 
they went from lower unemployment rates
in our golden era
to higher ones now ---------------


 A government that cannot balance
 its own finances
 cannot be relied on 
to provide macroeconomic stability

-----------this is bald non sense
just another alibi
another " sorry love to help ya
but the last bunch  fucked up so bad 
i  can't do a damn thing
but wish you well" ---------

 Indeed, former chairman
 of the U.S. Federal Reserve 
Paul Volcker
 sees the United States 
as so macroeconomically vulnerable
 as to be running a 75 percent chance
 of a full-fledged dollar crisis 
over the next several years.


--pure silly scare mongering shit -------------------
-----------------------------------------

The coming generation 
will be one of massive downward mobility
 for many Americans. 


-----------that prophecy is true ---------------------


The political struggles 
that this generates 
will determine
 whether America 
will move more closely 
to the social democratic norm 
for developed countries


---------no 
it means the end 
of social democracy 
every where in the first world
the end gone for ever 
the state transfer system
as we have known it
for 60 yearstorn up 
destroyed
that is the tower
 boys deliberate
first world anti wagery
 mission  for 30 odd years 

it means 
of de facto social democracy 
is history
in the entire  first world 

it means this is an active concious policy goal of the corporate elite
and they ain't stoppin till they're stopped
and the wagery of the first world
is in the klass against klass
fight up to its elbows again
klass agin klass
as harsh on the margin
as any victorian nightmare 
 
such a damn foolish 
  contradiction headed for explosion
as  social democratic klass peace
  is a horrid wagery illusion
the corporate types ain't suddenly gonna realize
shit this is wrong
or we're hurtin ourselves here too

nope 
they don't play  that  --------------


or
 find some way to accept 
and rationalize its existence
 as a country 
of high economic risk
 and deep divisions 
of income and wealth.

----- "accept and  rationalize"

you bent over
  profiteer
        buggered swine 

wagery klass quietism ?

kall it klass kismet ?

how vile you iz zink

how obviously odiously
  poisonously vile

i suggest tomorrow 
you ask 
your friendly stacked
thin legged
under the table  domestic
to take 
that fucking pompous
tooting
tuba off  you
and jam it 
down
real real tight
 over your bloated pale  squash
            

  you 
  fucking 
  over praised 
over rewarded
    over cosseted 
   " i hustled for  mine "
  
               " oh what a doity woild 
                this can be  
                             we're drivin thru "
   fucking 
  rancid  
     doctor 
         meat ball  you ---------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------

NEVER CAVE 


FIGHT  


NONE 
 OF THIS SICK TOWER DOWN 
                     SHIT
HAS TO BE LIKE THIZ

THERE IS 
 NO KLASS KISMET
 COMRADES 

WE MAKE OUR OWN WAY FORWARD

 REJOYCE

WE HAVE  HISTORY ON OUR SIDE 

THE PREVAILING WINDS
WILL ALWAYS BE
         AT OUR BACKS 

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