[lbo-talk] Why are the US-ers such assholes?

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Tue Nov 8 09:00:39 PST 2005


I guess it will be about how the racism card plays in Europe. They could do what they did in the U.S., maybe: liquidate the good blue-collar jobs, build prisons, turn old high paying union work into prison guard work, and stir twice.

Joanna

Doug Henwood wrote:


> N P Childs wrote:
>
>> Years ago I spent about three weeks arguing with some dip who called
>> himself 'Duke Nukem' about politics, loads of laughs. He trotted out
>> the usual right wing, own guns and 'live free or die' shit even while
>> he admitted that, yes, he lived rent free in his parents basement,
>> but if he CHOSE to he could have the 8000 square foot house and the
>> pneumatic blonde that came with it. This was just what we was doing
>> for now, that and working PT at Blockbuster. He's probably over
>> posted there now telling the French how to deal with millions of
>> pissed off people fed up with a racist society.
>
>
> I was just at one of the periodic economic updates at the Council on
> Foreign Relations, starring Mickey Levy (cheerleading right-winger
> from Bank of America), Peter Hooper (self-i.d.'d "gradualist" from
> Deutsche Bank), and Steven Roach (gloomster from Morgan Stanley). The
> consensus was that it's hoped that the riots don't deter European
> politicians from their "resolve" to cut back the welfare state and
> liberalize the labor market.
>
> Doug
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