Stop Me Before I Vote Again

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/26-1

What do you think of this analysis, op?

The public sector is actually very healthy. It's well worth looting. The USPS is a shining example of highly successful public enterprise. There's a huge pot of cash, available for looting, thanks to the 75 year health care and retirement pre-funding requirement. That's what this current tussle is all about.

Obviously the public sector as such can't survive, but that's not due to any inherent contradictions. Public enterprise is fundamentally sound; it prospers in spite of the state. The problem is that it's impossible to protect.

i like this dim sum jeremiah
the variety of the obvious
piled high
transmutes itself

the cumulative effect is everything here

america on the virge of terminator state ?

counter example:

an ex hegemonic nation
now fallen into the pack
and yet not on a killer ramapage
or all about devouring
its own job class spawn

britain

the earth ranging american armadas
are indeed "paid for " by unique yank
global borrowing "privileges"

but in and of itself not a very great burden on the planet

in fact without an uncle the planetary system of market nations would need to contrive such an alpha state

in "good " times uncle as borrower of last resort
in bad stablizer of first resort

like any materially driven
nasty rex state
that despite its blood feasts
none the less
maintains a higher level of average over the cycles
global demand
by running a robust trade deficit
even in a chronically demand constrained world

at least one national state must have limitless credit

in the absence of a world state

too bad the borrowings
are spent here on disney trips
by pass ops
and fried dough
that is
when its not shot right back over seas
to buy gadgets from the far east
and oil from all the americas and africas

the above norm national share
in planetary consumption
in particular of non renewable
climate altering natural energy resources
is a paid collective price
for a system that must have an alpha nation
that is grotesque
and as well
we yanks get to partake
of the worlds only
mass luxury
"barely keep em alive " medical system

yes this certainly suggests
a self called jeremiah
has good reason to be a jeremiah

a "subject" order
a vast under - herd
of ever auto-fattening wage and debt slaves ??

dreaming
"diet and exercise will make us free" ??

micro waved comfort food
the religion
of a several gluttonous national layers
sagging along
above the corner winos
and drugged street freaks

the peregrine homeless
waiting for gigot
with their mass produced
rummage treasure
their "find and keep" sacks ??

i can imagine a more generous purgatory
for them

but i prefer noticing the elites

where's their virtual inferno ?

where's our dante for them ?

There aren't many Jeremiahs willing to castigate the elite. I can dig it, with a caveat. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are, in their way, perfectly representative of their "grassroots" and "netroots" supporters; morally speaking, those supporters deserve whatever abuse they get from them. The rest of us, however, do not.

Al Schumann sez on 02.28.12 @13:43:
...The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are, in their way, perfectly representative of their "grassroots" and "netroots" supporters; morally speaking, those supporters deserve whatever abuse they get from them...

Ahh, yeah, the "netroots". Some pals and I have a private joke, which is that "the netroots is what astroturf grows from".

But, aaaaaaaanyway... as far as Rethuglicans and Donkeycrats' "grassroots" and "netroots" goes, you're right on, Al. I like to think I called it a couple of years ago:

http://www.sinkers.org/posters/whatdemocracylookslike/whatdemocracylookslike.jpg

" The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are, in their way, perfectly representative of their "grassroots" and "netroots" supporters; morally speaking, those supporters deserve whatever abuse they get from them."

" The rest of us, however, do not."

our exemption no doubt relies on
the ontic innocence of the moral agnostics

the non cleft souls
that by some grace of chaos and lesser disorder
have not found or defined
evil spirits and bad creatures
out there in the human worldscape

Nothing as grand as that. It's only basic oral contract theory.