The brainwashing is extremely effective though. One of my regular bridge partners is a senior scientist at UCB. Last month he told me that the greed of unionized teachers is the same thing as the greed of Goldman Sachs traders.
This has shown me that if you make things abstract enough, you can express any number of idiocies. But if you were to fill in the details:
"A teacher wishing to afford food and shelter after a lifetime of work is just as greedy as a man who wishes to retire at 35 on a king's ransom."
...it's a little harder.
I supposed we should all prepare ourselves to hear about the greed of the old, the sick, and the unemployed.
I am nauseous.
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- From: "Julio Huato" <juliohuato at gmail.com> To: "Lbo Talk Lbo Talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>, pen-l at lists.csuchico.edu Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:44:46 AM Subject: [lbo-talk] Austerity
My latest blog post:
http://juliohuato.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/austerity/
I don't have a chance now to revive it for serious, but I couldn't resist this for the time being. ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk