[lbo-talk] Needed: A Head Count

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Mon Jul 19 08:25:05 PDT 2004


Doug asks:


>Shane Mage wrote:
>
>>The Dumbocrats want a huge mandate
>>precisely because they expect to carry out anti-workingclass
>>policies
>
>Such as? How do you know?...

Simple arithmetic. Kerry has promised to increase war spending and keep a big army indefinitely in Iraq. Kerry has pledged not to raise taxes on the rich beyond what would pay for a "health" plan that would mainly benefit corporations. Kerry has promised to eliminate the federal budget deficit. All this in a conjuncture whose basic elements will be, at best, stagflation, a huge current-account deficit, a falling dollar, rising interest rates, and a deflating or bursting real-estate bubble. How can anyone imagine that, under these conditions, the capitalist central government will refrain from the same old same old....

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."

Herakleitos of Ephesos



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