JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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GJDailleult
The biggest problem with scapegoating is that after you are successful, you have to find a new scapegoat. I get it, public sector unions are "What is killing America (TM)". OK, so who is next? Gotta move up the food chain here boys.
Posted in: Protesters leave Wisconsin Capitol after 17-day sit-in
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GJDailleult
Taking money out of the economy will not "save" the state any money. The hit to revenue will end up being as big or bigger.
Posted in: Protesters leave Wisconsin Capitol after 17-day sit-in
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GJDailleult
Apparently he knows enough about the USA to know what the figure is.
Posted in: Republicans win first budget skirmish; bigger fight looms
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GJDailleult
Even if everything the anti-union types said was and is true, this is also true. The American government, through the treasury, federal reserve, and the FDIC have spent over 13 trillion dollars to "fix" the banking system, with more on the way apparently. Still no solution in sight either. I am not even going to bother figuring out what percent of 13 trillion that 9 million works out to, but if people want to worry about 9 MILLION dollars, hey go ahead.
Just don't expect me to take any of the anti-union stuff seriously. Or see it as anything other than either a diversionary tactic to keep alive the myth that what is going on is a left vs. right issue, or the actions of people who don't have any idea what they are talking about or doing. Freaking out about a pimple (imaginary or real) when you have a possibly fatal disease, and shouting "this pimple is killing me" basically.
Posted in: Big labor's last stand in the U.S.
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GJDailleult
TumbleDry: Abraham Lincoln too.
Just to be clear on my previous rambling post, and to save anybody from wasting their time with the usual "we are going broke" Keynsian bashing, just because I am saying solution A) "cutting spending" won't work, does not mean I think solution B)"continuing to spend" will work either. The correct answer is solution C) but not much point in talking about it as it will never be allowed to happen. That is why everybody argues about non-solutions A and B, because C is off the table.
Posted in: Republicans win first budget skirmish; bigger fight looms
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GJDailleult
Well said tkoind2, that pretty much sums it up. Unions were victims of both corruption and their own success. People thought I don't need to be in a union, since "I am middle class guy, not working class", without any idea of why they didn't need to be in a union in the first place. Hey, I am as guilty as anybody, I am upper middle-class, at least thought I was until the last few years. Now I see things are not that simple.
As for parasites killing hosts, I will just point out that a corporation is also a union. It is an owner's union which brings them limited personal liability. That limited liability then leads to passive ownership, which allows management to run wild lining their pockets. Parasites killing the host at a far greater level than any unions ever have.
Posted in: Big labor's last stand in the U.S.
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GJDailleult
USA is a on a road but afraid it is not the "road to recovery". Also, how about asking the obvious question about why there are exploding debts and deficits in the first place? Because you don't want to know the answer, that is why. The debt was intentional, and nothing to do with party politics. This is Alice in Wonderland stuff, where everybody pretends that nobody knows how economics and money works. Pretend that you can fix things by stopping doing what you were doing to cover up things in the first place, and which is what screwed everything up. Two ways for this to go. One, they have no real intention of cutting spending, just shifting it so services are down but spending stays the same (and of course use the black hole called the Federal Reserve to top things up), or two, they really will cut spending and then face the shocking realization that that doesn't fix anything. Crazy times. And are they really spending their time talking about $4 billion? That is Dr. Evil money, less than peanuts in the overall picture.
Posted in: Republicans win first budget skirmish; bigger fight looms
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GJDailleult
Not sure why my post was taken down there, was just agreeing with the writer. The writer in the last paragraph gave an example of how the unions are also fighting against general apathy among the American public towards their cause. I gave examples of a couple of American celebrities and the media attention paid to their problems that back up what he was saying. No doubt the same applies to them in terms of awareness as to the example the writer gave of Lara Logan, probably more so.
Posted in: Big labor's last stand in the U.S.
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GJDailleult
It is not a case of less seriousness, it is a case of lack of awareness. Japanese people have been in Japan for many, many centuries, and have frequent earthquakes. They didn't need the relatively new science of plate techtonics to tell them they have earthquakes. New Zealand and also Canada and the US northwest are in areas of infrequent but potentially powerful earthquakes, and the cities were built long before the dangers were understood. Very different situation from Japan, and as we saw in Christchurch a very serious problem.
Posted in: Christchurch quake may portend major seismic activity for Japan
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GJDailleult
Madoff should have never turned himself in, that was his big mistake. He provided a convenient scapegoat to make it look like something was being done while the really big fish continue raiding the piggy bank.
Posted in: Madoff says U.S. government a Ponzi scheme
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GJDailleult
Police are unionized, did Walker think they are idiots? They know what a "slippery slope" is, of course they were not going to force people out if they are acting lawfully.
Yep, and that someone is not you. Snake-oil salesman, nothing more.
Posted in: Police allow protesters to remain at Wisconsin Capitol
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GJDailleult
Man and Paul, you are entitled to your opinions about unions, you are not entitled to intentionally reverse cause and effect. States can't afford union benefits because they are bankrupt, not union benefits bankrupted the States.
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. " Henry Ford, 1927. The US financial system could be cleaned up and all this worry about states going bankrupt could be tidied up in a few weeks. The way how to do it is understood. The reason it is not done is that doing so would expose the system as a fraud, and even the thickest individual would be able to see it. So instead you get union skapegoating, and those new taxes you worry about, and you will be getting them even if every union in the USA disappears.
Posted in: Protesters across U.S. decry anti-union efforts in Wisconsin
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GJDailleult
Hopefully a circle with the letter "n" in front of it. As in "no, we are not going to destroy our country just so you can continue to go on pretending that you didn't lose all that money you lost".
Money that can't be paid back won't be paid back. Pretending it will be is an IMF and ECB sham.
Posted in: Shape of new Irish gov't yet to emerge
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GJDailleult
I forgot to add that it was not only to buy off the citizens, it was also, needless to say, to make those with access to the taps VERY,VERY RICH. Rich in paper and numbers in a bank account that is. They now think that if they take away other peoples' money and numbers by weakening unions, and cutting salaries and spending, they will be to keep theirs.
But that ain't the way things work. The con-men have forgot what the con is.
Posted in: Protesters across U.S. decry anti-union efforts in Wisconsin
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GJDailleult
So what you are saying is that the private sector pays its workers with private sector money which is then taken from them in taxes and given to public sector workers, and this process causes the States to go bankrupt.
You really have no idea where the money comes from in the first place do you. You see no connection between out of control government spending and all the millionaires and billionaires that have appeared out of nowhere the last 30 years. You see nothing weird in the fact that the "powerful unions who are wrecking America" have not taken a cut in any of the money, and that salary levels have not budged in 30 years. You are no doubt too young to have sat down with your Dad to watch "Wall Street Week" on PBS, where Louis Rukheyser was given 30 minutes a week to beg people to pay attention to this boring place called "Wall Street", or have laughed in the movie Frost/Nixon when Nixon jumps up and down because he is going to paid $250,000, shouting "I am going to be a rich man!!!".
The only economic policy of the USA and other rich countries since 1980 has been to increase the money supply through the issuance of government debt in order to buy off the citizens. That is where ALL the money comes from. Now that the Ponzi scheme has blown up, the fraudsters are desperately trying to keep things going, and some of them have come up with the crackpot idea that they can do that by attacking unions and promoting the delusional idea the problems are all in how the system is operated. No, the problem is that the system is now inoperable.
The problem is also not that the elites have plans, elites always have plans. The problem is that the plans now are insane. If you think things are ugly now with the attacks on unions and the middle class, just wait until the rich start firing on each other. Because that is where things are headed.
Posted in: Protesters across U.S. decry anti-union efforts in Wisconsin
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GJDailleult
iruaustralia - you are right, they are, in effect, state-owned now. I meant they weren't state-owned when all the damage was done.
The alternative is for banks who lose money to lose the money. Otherwise there is no point to banking. How we managed to get to a "harmonized global financial regime" that doesn't reflect that basic economic concept is what is spooky.
Posted in: Irish opposition on brink of election win
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GJDailleult
No offense intended sarge, but that is nonsense. They are the people who do the jobs that are unprofitable for the private sector to do. Whether their union does a good job for them or is just an organized crime racket, that is another question. But the money they are paid by the "taxpayer" all comes from the same place that the "taxpayer" gets it from. It all comes from government spending. And excessive government spending, to support "banks" that have blown all their noney, that is the whole problem.
Posted in: Protesters across U.S. decry anti-union efforts in Wisconsin
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GJDailleult
In other buildings maybe, hopefully sarge is right. But judging from the pictures on NHK news tonight, nobody is coming out of the CTV building.
Think maybe something more than just a building design problem happened there. Liquefaction, or some kind of freak wave and resonance combination hit the building, physics stuff that I don't understand. Sad for so many people to lose their lives in just one building, looks to be about 30 or 40% of the total fatalities.
Posted in: Christchurch holds prayers for quake victims; death toll 147
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GJDailleult
sailwind, it is known that the Federal Reserve has recently put over 12 trillion dollars into the international banking system. It is not a question of being broke, it is a question of having access to money. Where do you think this money comes from?
Posted in: Facts overshadowed in debate over union bill in Wisconsin
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GJDailleult
Uh, no, that kind of thinking has nothing to do with what got you into the mess in the first place. You are in this place because banks were allowed to make loans without caring if the loans were paid back, which destroys an economy, which destroys a government's revenue. Destroys the whole point of a bank when they get bailed out, too. But whether people ignore why they are in this mess because they are unaware (no shame in that, it is confusing stuff), or because they are trying to keep other people unaware (because they are stalling for time, and hoping for a miracle) is not really important.
As GW once said "this sucker is going down". And unless somebody somewhere wakes up real soon, Bush will go down in history as a visionary, just a little early on his call. Meanwhile keep arguing over unions and pretending they are the problem. That will keep you safe.
Posted in: Facts overshadowed in debate over union bill in Wisconsin