bw

nice run thru

i however see the fault line
in the fdr hegemonics running thru
the post 68- 78 crsis in america

yes carter...
with volcker as thors hammer
started the big turn right

a turn so massive it
effectively morphed
the qualitative post WWII characteristics
of the us economy

we've been in reagonia ever since

fdr land is history
now --even in its post war kold war
uncle hegemonic phase
a past seties of station on clios railroad

trying to rescue the dembot party
post nam is well ...a daunting task for an honest pair of eyes
and it gets particularly daunting when we hit the second ike era
with will clintons gang in charge

you're good policy bad policy gig

it means
good cop bad cop now
and has meant nothing more then that
at least since we elected
jimmy the C

the dembolian-corporanian composite party
needs to split its train in twain
and each hoity moity part
head of
in decidedly different directions
at the earliest possible switch point
bw

nice reply

first the end

"In 2008, the Republicans are offering John McCain, the exemplar of "honest conservative" fool. The country is on a steep slope. Progressive/liberal/left Democrats can try to drag the fools up the slope. Or, the fools can choose John McCain, and the train will go barrelling downslope, ungoverned, to the precipice."

i agree about the air pirate McCain bit

but might i suggest the post 64-68
"national majority "
tilt
is at long last
headed for a reversal

even if the fools vote in hanoi johnny
their likely in short order to be rescued
as they were from hoover (h)
by their own emiserization

progressive change and misery
have this on and off long term
thing going on between em

as to
the open

"that's what they did in 1968, when and why it all went so terribly wrong. "

ya but the party never really came apart
the hump THUMP
led NEXT TIME
to the one brake in the party's prez candidates
george McG
but the party "center " held its ground
retook control
and .....

better 40 years in the wilderness after
68
then this reagan lite shit

"The two American Political Parties differ systematically in who they are trying to benefit"

bruce i find this difficult to swallow whole

"systematically " differ ???

are we talking some covert party class line
the inner cadre
cloak in a fatuous whole people mass line

a mass line that stinks
of hoakum water

i'd contend the dembots have such
an eclectic notion
of who they are fighting for
and just how they are fighting for em
and just why that how is necessary at this juncture
that its capable of justifying almost anything ...

if you'd said
the dembot core has a clear
30 year pattern of actions
that intend to benefit xyz
as long as its not
at the expense of abc
i'd buy it

the dembots are without covertly adulterated
" broad class coalition " type motives
in fact
they clearly push their bases around

nafta in the face of the afl-xxx
in fact the dlc has 20 year
semi overt flurtation
with fuck the reagan hard hats
they're dinosaurs on the way to clio's slaughter bench
and as for blacks
merely the list of sell outs and sell offs
over the last 40 years
would fill john browns grave

Posted by: paine | Link to comment | April 09, 2008 at 05:36 PM

paine says...
An economist can know a lot about economics and still want the rich to get richer and the poor to shut up about it.

great linewinslow

neither party core
i suspect
willing admits to itself
they aims to get
their members into office
by playing off
the contradictions
between
the various corporate sectors

which doesn't mean in practice
if not by intent
at least in fact
they do what amounts to just that
thru their
endless two sided
corporate donation contests

but i see austen ghoulsby's ichabodish face
hovering b4 my eyes
even as i read it

"the administration and..a congress.. controlled by Republicans ... had no desire to do so."

and why pray tell should they ???

its up to the people's party
to champion the people's interests

the question ought to be ..i think ...
why can't the jobbled majority "elect "
a majority congress
clearly carved in its own image ???

i suggest u can
look to the corporate wing of the dembotry
for your answers
them and the class quislings in the dembot prog pond
unwilling or unable to brake free

the dems need a convention like the convention of 1896
---where the gold dembots
appeared to be summarily
hurled out of "the big tent"---

even a loss as severe
as bryan took in the subsequent election
(out pursed by ten to one )
at least creates
a real organized alternative
to corporate hegemony
not just a jeff to the gop mutt
"Clinton wasn't much better because the surplus and growth under Clinton-Rubin was a child of the manipulation of inflation data and other economic ledgerdemain."

This is a rotten lie."

no its not a lie anne

its unintentional poetry

its figurative visionary thinking

the dream icons it contains
need to be carefully
unpacked
and then they reveal
the inner essence of the scandal

in 92 by a plurality like lincoln's
we elected a working family candidate
and we got ...ike clinton

that was then
and
now what ??

maaaaa---mmmmie clinton ???

or will it be
that most shrewdly obscure
outline of a figure

the hero of obamanation

"And the container ships sailing from China are lining up outside Los Angeles, full of corporate profits."

right on rusty

american coprorate arbitrage profits

castrate the trans nats

bomb the rmb /dollar bridge

Gerard MacDonell
"Let's leave .... on the right where it belongs.
.... does the typical liberal thing ...."

u are sprawling your attacks
all over the political map here

man of reason in the middle i take it

btw

what does this mean to u

"We did have a boom"

the system produces
all we need do
is figure a way
to share out its bounty better ????

what if its
over all performance
and the fate of its big gainers
and big losers
are interlaced

look art that evil toy
trade simplex theory

great trade gains create
great displacements of factor employment
and often factor shares ...no ???

maybe the whole damn set up needs an overhaul
not just a pro middle income job strata
tax tweeeeeking

" ...poor macroeconomic performance..."

i'd say jobs growth is a possible macro policy aim
and on that dimension we have most assuredly not
had a boomy recovery
"Isn't the idea of communication to try and be understood easily?"

up to a point ..i guess
if easy means clarity
without un necessary baroque counterpointing

my writing is indeed bad writing
but ...what's so hard about it ???

read it out loud to yourself
if the line brakes frustrate your fast aquisition mode

its all pretty simple shit
if a bit compressed
and alas
too simple and repetitive

unreadable ???

maybe u just read to fast dear soul
or
look for what's not there

i'll admit
i speed bump on purpose

conventional thought trains
need the occasional derailing side tracking
and slowing for site seeing

we all have agends of course

but i find
reading to simply confirm or refute
is like playing tennis against a back board

the clinton miracle book ended :

"The benefits of economic growth were broadly shared...."

" .. a few years in the late 1990s "

a fluke ???

dumb luck ???

alan's doing ???

an over sight ???

a tease ???

the jack asses last hurrah ???

" The really Rich,
or a significant portion,
have to be screwed, big-time.
Bring on the guillotines....."

why ?

" The California electricity crisis. The Bankruptcy Bill. Tort reform. The huge effort to reform Social Security out of existence."

moral

"The Republicans are not neglectful stewards
of a common cause. "
they are to the contrary
the ever at the ready and service
once and for always
the bound class champions
of the uber plutos

--- or is it ...just petty bag men ??? --

the paw of the tiger

"cute "

oh i wish it were so

"sentences "

do you speak in em bro ???

sam johnson i ain't
but maybe this might help

think
of truman capote's speaking voice
as you mouth my words to yourself

then
it will all make
too too much sense

maybe too much
for u to bare

Posted by: paine | Link to comment | April 09, 2008 at 12:48 PM

paine says...
holly w

"Actually, I see this quite the opposite way: Having both adults in a household working is a form of insurance, guaranteeing that there will still be income even if one of them loses their job"

i agree
as long as either jobs' income alone
covers the household's weekly nut

"monopoly on "legalized" theft"
indeed taxes prolly are
sublimated robbery

but colorful anachronisms aside

might it not be better
and cuter
to say
the state has a monopoly
on
---among other things----
defining what qualifies
as "legalized" corporate theft
vs
counterfeiting
forgery
fraud
usury
embezzlement
pick pocketing etc

Cyrille
i'm convinced

from hence forth
there will be
no more awwwwwfull prose
from
yours true-llly

owen christopher manfred paine
late of hingham mass

Posted by: paine | Link to comment | April 09, 2008 at 01:35 PM

paine says...
I understand everything you say.

Ah, should I be worried?

yes check in the mirror for a pair of pre horn lumps
right about at the temples
if you don't stop reading my shit
you'll end up looking like
the st louis ram

Posted by: paine | Link to comment | April 09, 2008 at 01:39 PM

paine says...
anne

did you bust open the lock
i put on the brandy chest ???

vis a vis derrida

".... found in his writings
resources for insights
that have led
to an extraordinary revival
of the arts and humanities
during the past four decades..."

grounds for a quick trip to the memory hole i'd say

kthomas

you are far far to kind

the devil ??

even mr mephisto ??...moi ???

its like calling
a corporal
" field marshall
really good line by kill shot :

"huge amounts of governmental power and privilege have been privatized in the form of the limited-liability corporate person."

it makes a keystone point
one that holds in place
many other points

"There should be as little food-trade dependence as possible in developing economies. Subsidize, subsidize, subsidize"

anne has a keen point here

a low ball currency helps
it amounts to a tax on improted food and thus a subsidy to domestic production

a good reason the prc hasn't revalued rapidly

but there are other ways
to prop up small farm income
or cut
"the total cost" of small farm life

ahh this is a huge project
the really great transformation
involving not millions
but billions

billions are skidding around
on this hot griddle

Posted by: paine | Link to comment | April 09, 2008 at 04:35 PM

paine says...

m. shannon

"obscurity" ????

now that one stumps me

compressed
telegraphic
sure
but obscure .....not hardly

i guess its maybe harder
to read
straight down the page
then i think it is

but alas
i can't change
like most long term affectations
perhaps
its a form of protective coloration
who knows after all these years

btw at
the blog site
"stop me before i vote again"
my mate and editor mj smith
at least conventionalizes my posting formats

u might see if they are less obscure