Wojtek Sokolowski
Doug:
> Watching the vox pop on NY1 - the New York City news channel on Time
> Warner cable systems - I've been surprised at the sympathy to the
> strikers. There was one woman tonight going on about how they should
> be fired like Reagan did with PATCO, but there were three or four
> pro-strike remarks in the same segment.
Indeed, the vox populi on the BBC list is getting more diverse too. Below is the "vox" that I contributed:
"Anyone who believes that $50,000 plus pension is too much for a NYC worker with considerable responsibility, but does not mind seven digits handouts to speculators accountable to no one needs to have his head examined. Anyone claiming that the US is not a "socialist" nation needs to realize that US is not a nation at all, socialist or otherwise, but a club of billionaires with no national loyalty supported by the multinational work force toiling for pennies."
Wojtek
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>From this distance, the ferocity of the attack on the strikers by the
ruling powers certainly seems to support Harvey's contention that as the
result of the financial crisis of the mid-70s New York was transformed
into the preeminent local and cultural "space" for capital.