[lbo-talk] Obama transcends change

[Mike Ballard]

On Jan 6, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Shane Taylor wrote:
> "I don't think in ideological terms"...Obama said, continuing on the  
> healthcare theme. "Everybody who supports single-payer healthcare
> says, 'Look at all this money we would be saving from
> insurance and paperwork.' That represents 1 million, 2
> million, 3 million jobs of people who are working at
> Blue Cross Blue Shield or Kaiser or other places. What
> are we doing with them? Where are we employing them?"
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Meanwhile, each succeeding winter brings up afresh the great question, “what to
do with the unemployed"

Engels, http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p6.htm

When bourgeois politicians talk about saving "jobs", they're really talking
about saving their friends in the capitalist class and their friends' profits. 
If the unemployed can be employed to make profits for the employing class, they
are, in capitalist terms, from the capitalist point of view, productive.  If
workers are employed in a State system, like say, healthcare, and there are no
profits being made, the capitalist politicians will talk about "job loss". 

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1863/theories-surplus-value/index.htm

Mike B)

"Would you have freedom from wage-slavery.." Joe Hill
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