[lbo-talk] Austerity

[Wojtek S]

[WS:] I think there is more into it.  The ass-kissing of the rich and stern
disciplining of the poor is an integral part of the American mainstream
culture, like baseball and apple pie. Johns Kenneth Galbraith captured that
spirit when he observed that the rich are not working if they do not have
enough, and the poor are not working because they have too much.  This
mentality of 'welfare queen" bashing brought victories in the past (the
Reagan "revolution") and will likely bring them again (passage of austerity
measures.)

I agree with Carrol that many Americans are not simply brainwashed.  They
are despicable sociopaths who would say that it is raining when the rich
spit in their faces and then turn around and for shits and giggles kick a
walker of an old bag lady.  Such attitudes seem quite widely spread among
college graduates.

Wojtek

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:26 AM, <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:


> On Sun, January 2, 2011 11:40 pm, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
>
> > So, when a man with the IQ of a genius tells me that teachers and bankers
> > are both greedy, this is evidence of what?
>
> Most likely causes: (1) he's never taught a class in his life and has no
> idea how much work it really is, (2) is a faithful consumer of the
> mainstream US media and has no idea that the bankster bailout was $14
> trillion and that half the Federal budget is swallowed up by war spending,
> (3) graduated from college in the 1970s or 1980s, before the whole tuition
> increase/neoliberalization of education madness really took hold.
>
> -- DRR
>
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