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what do the poor want ???

el scruggles asks....


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scrug's detail

if asked po folks say 

"... They want to have something 

that can’t be stolen, 

a place to live 

that can’t be stolen 

and the opportunity,

 from time to time, 

to strip pompous technocrats naked,

 cover them in ham glaze 

and chase them down the street

 with barbecue forks. 

That is, by the way, 

the only effective cure 

for Type A personalities."

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the big I

comments: 

  

best post i’ve read in years

 with two  word changes only

from “poor people ” to 

“shitsky jobholders”

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scrugs quite astutely counters...

 

"Being poor 

is more jobwork than just about anything else"

 except being a mother 

as well as being poor" 

he adds 

"Digressing,

 I think professional philanthropy 

is now being gifted

 with an influx of Type A 

neoliberal cranks 

who couldn’t make the grade

 in misanthropic finance"

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me back on part two :



" they’re in the unions too

goo goo 

go gos

all for 

the lowly jobblers

 caring help 

is our only god

and

andy stern is our prophet

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addendum: on distinction between  wage job

and household production:

i think my clever reason 

for sub-ing jobster for poor folk

is

the precise context here in amerika

ie 

the historical class structure interval

and what it signals

looked at from 

the side of

 who what and how and how much

society produces 

versus 

who what and how and how much 

society consumes 

in say india these two functions can be merged

more households then not

as households

still do both 

as one unit 

produce and consume 

they still have their p/c integerity

despite rent and tax and interest rackings

that immiserated these

“independent toilers ”

because of this p/c integrity

we can only call them poor oppressed exploited ” whole people ”

subsiding as they subsist

still not ripped untimely

from mother natures problematic umbilical cord



musical question:

swimming in a hick ethos

now flowing with natural and social poisons

is it better to 

stay and go down 

on the potato patch

or

flee to the city doom

for a vicious jobster fate  ????

the choice most often is both

and results in neither alot

and then the choice itself

dissolves too

and well...

welcome to oz

folks

jobblers gobblers and ghouls 

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after thoughts:



the use of

the word  poor

- an un split pb notion -

is populist speak

with all its unifying trans class broad front virtues and vices



as a populist  pleb insiting rabble rouser 

my gut always twists when folks want  the poor 

to get less poor not the rich get less rich

 lower orders  take

that's  my mode 

not higher orders  give 

scruggles here arrives at the same point 

on the issue of experts 

and the gpcr type

periodic

"merit"

 apex  topple 

a virtual skinning 

an updated jaquery 

Posted by js paine at December 13, 2006 01:48 PM

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