[lbo-talk] A hundred grand a year???

john taylor jtayloruaw at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 2 11:47:21 PST 2005


What are you guys smoking? Skilled trades at max seniority and overtime can't make that much in a year.

I topped out in production at $45,000 (with overtime)! And I thought I was making it good!

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> From: Michael Pugliese <michael.098762001 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Need piece defending third
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> Left Out!: How Liberals Helped Reelect George W.
> Bush by Joshua Frank,
> a frequent Counterpuncher.
> http://www.brickburner.org/
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> Michael Pugliese
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> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 10:47:48 -0800 (PST)
> From: Thomas Seay <entheogens at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Top 100 Public Intellectuals
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http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3260&page=0
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> <<We are at such a point in mankind's evolution
> where changed conditions invalidate all our policies
> that have been so successful even in the recent
> past, and that presumably have constituted the ideal
> response to a presumably unchanging and unchangeable
> human condition. No wonder we are stupefied and
> confused-but our mistake is the same which many
> cultures have made before us, namely to force a
> rigid model upon a fluid reality.
>
> Erich Jantsch - "Design for Evolution:
> Self-Organization and Planning in the Life of Human
> Systems"
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> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 10:48:27 -0800
> From: "Leigh Meyers" <leighcmeyers at gmail.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Democrats in Senate Act as An
> Opposition Party:
> Republicans Dumbstruck
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> Travus T. Hipp Was all about it this morning... News
> AND Commentary:
>
> [November 02 2005] Travus T. Hipp Morning News &
> Commentary:
> Shhhh! It's A Secret - The Democrats Want To Know -
> Did We Fool Ourselves Into A War?
>
> Click To Listen: http://www.snurl.com/tth_051102
> [ M3U Audio Playlist 128Kbps 14:24Min ]
>
> Or:
>
http://leighmdotnet.blogspot.com/2005/11/november-02-2005-travus-t-hipp-morning.html
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> Then... This:
>
> BuzzFlash:
> November 2, 2005
> Democrats in Senate Act as An Opposition Party:
> Republicans Dumbstruck
>
> A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
>
http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/05/11/edi05069.html
>
> The Republican Party, which has recently spent most
> of its time defending the treasonous outing of a
> covert CIA operative, was struck dumb by an
> ingenious act of the Senate Democrats. What could
> cause the GOP Senate to rise up into a frenzy of
> stunned indignation?
>
> In an unprecedented, uncharacteristically daring
> move, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid forced the
> Senate into a secret session to demand
> accountability for the Bushevik lies that led
> America into the Iraq War. The November 1st action
> took everyone by surprise, including BuzzFlash,
> because of its unexpected creativity and defiance.
>
> After Karl Rove, a traitor to America, had
> engineered a series of PR moves to divert the media
> from the GOP TreasonGate indictment and ongoing
> federal investigation, BuzzFlash had printed an
> editorial noting that the White House was once again
> getting away with betraying America and distracting
> the nation from the unprecedented incompetence of
> the Busheviks.
>
> But after BuzzFlash criticized the Democratic
> leadership for their enabling of Bush's credibility
> at a time when most Americans disapprove of him and
> have turned against the Iraq War, the Democrats in
> the Senate unexpectedly took a bold action that left
> the Republicans momentarily reeling. Indeed, Bill
> "Inside HCA Trading/Malpractice Diagnosis by
> Videotape/Cat Killer" Frist turned into a frothing
> fountain of incomprehensible babble.
>
> Cherish the moment. It may not come again soon.
>
> But it does at least offer some hope that Reid and
> the Democrats in the Senate realize that they cannot
> continue business as usual. They cannot let a
> cover-up of the betrayal of America and the outing
> of a CIA operative specializing in the tracking of
> the illicit sales of Weapons of Mass Destruction go
> unpunished. They cannot let the Bush administration
> continue to damage America's national security. They
> cannot let those who are destroying the United
> States from within remain unaccountable.
>
> These issues matter to our personal safety and our
> safety as a nation. But it also matters that the
> citizens of the United States view Democratic
> leaders as people willing to fight to protect us
> from evils within and without. Many people voted for
> Bush because he appeared willing to fight for what
> he believed in -- even if his beliefs were way out
> of the mainstream and his ability to make war highly
> flawed. They thought the Democrats too weak and
> wobbly to run a nation under threat of terror. Such
> are the nature of perceptions.
>
>
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