[WS]: I do not understand why you are reading such trash, Joanna. This drivel is written by a professional provocateur and its sole purpose is to grab attention and enrage people like you. It is equivalent to saying "fuck" in a polite company. This is the intellectual commodity produced by a significant share of the chattering class in this country. Life is too short to pay attention to such shit - it only makes you angry and raises your blood pressure. It is much healthier to watch birds or listen to classical music.
This, btw, reminds me of an old joke. Two Jews meet at a news stand in Berlin ca. 1930. One picks up a respectable liberal daily, the other one - a rabidly anti-Semitic tabloid. Seeing this, the guy who picked up the liberal daily says: "I do not understand why you are reading such trash."
The other one replies: "In your paper it says that Jews suffer persecution all over the world, in my paper it says that Jews secretly run the world.
I prefer the good news."
Wojtek
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:57 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> Corey Robin noted on his blog:
>
> Yesterday, after a building housing garment factories collapsed in
> Bangladesh, killing almost 200 workers, Matt Yglesias wrote :
>
> "Bangladesh may or may not need tougher workplace safety rules, but it's
> entirely appropriate for Bangladesh to have different—and, indeed,
> lower—workplace safety standards than the United States.
>
> The reason is that while having a safe job is good, money is also good.
> Jobs that are unusually dangerous—in the contemporary United States that's
> primarily fishing, logging, and trucking—pay a premium over other
> working-class occupations precisely because people are reluctant to risk
> death or maiming at work. And in a free society it's good that different
> people are able to make different choices on the risk–reward spectrum....
>
> Bangladesh is a lot poorer than the United States, and there are very good
> reasons for Bangladeshi people to make different choices in this regard
> than Americans....The current system of letting different countries have
> different rules is working fine."
>
> -----------------------------
>
> And the poor and the rich are equally free to sleep under bridges. Words
> fail me.
>
>
> Joanna
>
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-- Wojtek
"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."