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Regarding those against extended job loss benefits or with a Melon-esque attitude about the Great Recession: Maybe people … who have no risk of losing their cushy tenured job(s) shouldn’t prescribe medicine that they have no risk of ever taking. - Me Really, it’s like successful motivational speakers who give “Get Rich” seminars that use themselves for examples. [...] Mostly so I don’t forget this vile screed: “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. Purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down… enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.” - Andrew Mellon, rich bastard who knew no one he cared [...] Telle est donc la condition humaine que souhaiter la grandeur de son pays, c’est souhaiter du mal à ses voisins. or in English: Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors. - Voltaire Sad but true… CBO “money quote” via Delong: “There is no intrinsic contradiction between providing additional fiscal stimulus today, while the unemployment rate is high and many factories and offices are underused, and imposing fiscal restraint several years from now, when output and employment will probably be close to their potential” - CBO Director Doug Elmendorf (original source here). An old but very accurate quote: It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair Orwell really did have a special ability to capture the truth (via Glenn Greenwald): All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe and oppose it in India with no feeling of inconsistency. Actions are held to be good or bad, not [...] It’s always “interesting” (sarcasm intended) to read the comments to Yahoo! News posts. It always gives a good vision into the insanity that we call the American public. For the fun of it I thought I’d respond to some of the quotes found in this article about the BP oil spillTM: Obama plans to take the stage [...] I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. - Mohandas Gandhi Well, he finally admitted to it: “Yeah, we water-boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.” - George W. Bush, ex-President and War Criminal Of course, he’s a little late to the show, his V.P. admitted to it two years ago: “I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency in effect came [...] |
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