There’s no calls for some sort of post-industrial personal fulfillment in their labor – very few even invoke the idea that a job should “mean something.” It’s straight out of antiquity – free us from the bondage of our debts and give us a basic ability to survive.
Month: November 2011
Occupation
We must recognize that no one beholden to Big Money can lead America towards being a truly democratic republic.
November 2, 2011
US military occupation forces in Iraq and Afganistan under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 134 combat casualties in the eight days ending November 2, as the official casualty total rose to 110,822 The total includes 79,387 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and 31,435 since the US invaded… Continue reading November 2, 2011
We have a society in which money is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few people, and in which that concentration of income and wealth threatens to make us a democracy in name only.
-Paul Krugman explains the basic problem, again.
Our only question is will $1.5 billion in theft be enough for the first real perp walk of an Obama-friendly Wall Street executive?
-Zero Hedge, wondering whether Democratic maven Jon Corzine will be jailed over his apparent criminal actions in the downfall of MF Global.