[lbo-talk] Olympic displacement

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 7 07:19:37 PDT 2007


Wojtek asked:

"May I ask what is the market value of your home and the medial income and property value in the zip code where you live?"

Woj,

You may ask, but what's the point? For one thing, I don't live in a home. I rent an apartment. I could provide all kinds of personal stats here, my income, a resume, my ZIP code, my electric bill, and on and on. But that's getting into a Yoshie-looking-up-folks'-paychecks-and-affiliations-on-the-web level of creepiness I'd rather not submit myself to on this public forum, esp. in order to discuss this issue. Surely it can be discussed without me providing my rent, mortgage, utility payments, etc., personally.

It looked to me like you were saying let's bring the rich folks in (actually, you did say exactly that); they'll somehow transfer their good tidings downward to the rest of us. That's general Republican economic philosophy, AFAIK. Rich folks do seem to require an awful lot of services (cleaners, house servants, repairmen, nannnies, special boutique stores, great cars and their specialist mechanics, etc.) that "normal" people don't. So they bring jobs with them, alright -- ones that pander to them. Mr. Yates was even discussing this on his Tavis Smiley TV show appearance -- the enormous resources "required" to service the "needs" of the wealthy. That can create jobs, alright. And so can making tons of missiles.

-B.



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