[lbo-talk] rant

[B.]

"O Dream-America, was civilization's quest to end in
obesity and trivia?" - Salman Rushdie, _Fury_

-B.

Doug Henwood posted a Ken Layne piece:

"As America loses its long-held leadership of the
world and the entire U.S. Economy literally dies and
the smart money has long since moved to developing
countries and wages stagnate and crushing debt hangs
over everything and Americans are dumber, fatter,
sicker and poorer than anyone in the modern world [...]"