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12/05/2003 Archived Entry: "Comic relief"
Comic Relief
That's it, I'm taking a break from today's festivities, or I'll end up like this guy. I'll write a few paragraphs on 'Miserable Failure and the Media' later on.....
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Christ, I never put my miserable root canal procedure on my resume! Maybe that's why I can't get any job interviews.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 12/05/2003 06:22 PM NY
I guess all you people are disappointed that there's an economic recovery going on. Damn!
All you can do is call Bush names like the immature, petulant, malcontents that you are. Why don't you all go form a communist state somewhere and leave America to those value justice and freedom?
Posted by Rich S. @ 12/05/2003 06:26 PM NY
Rich,
Screw you. My country too, pal.
As much as I think you're a demented halfwit for buying the crap Bush sells to you wholesale, notice that I'm not telling you to go live somewhere else.
And BTW - 57K jobs last month? Some recovery. Clinton did better than that in his worst month. Must really tear you up.
Posted by editor @ 12/05/2003 07:39 PM NY
Unemployment rate went from 6.0% to 5.9% not because of job growth but because of the "discouraged worker" effect. Also, the official unemployment rate does not apply to the under-employed. For instance, I've been working three days a week since January 2002. That makes me 40% unemployed. Am I in the statistics, no.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 12/05/2003 08:55 PM NY
Hey Rich,
That sounds a lot like the love-it-or-leave it rhetoric I used to hear back in the sixties and seventies. I notice you can't refute the arguments, you just engage in more ad hominem attacks instead of addressing the substance of our arguments. So I'll tell you what I told the last guy, fuck you, and the elephant you rode in on. Until the Republican party starts yanking the leash on some of their more outrageous demagogues, of which I can think of at least a dozen; I'm not taking any advice from the people who belong to the party who thought it was a good idea to go rooting around in Clinton's zipper for six long years, while diverting resources from more worthwhile pursuits, like hunting terrorists.
Once more,
Lying about sex, trivial.
Lying about war, not trivial.
Posted by Stentor @ 12/05/2003 09:15 PM NY
sorry. the resume smells like a hoax.
drunken bastard said that he got the resume summer of 1992. he also says that other people told him that they also got this resume around that time.
unfortunately, the resume references events that took place in 1993, 1994, 1995. in addition, the resume mentions the date 4/28/95 (p.9)
the later portions of the document reference clinton scandals, newt as speaker of the house (1994).
while the authenticity of the document cannot be readily determined, the story of how it came into drunken bastards possession is certainly fiction.
-ub
Posted by UncleBilly @ 12/06/2003 04:26 AM NY
Billy,
I just thought the shit was funny is all.
Posted by editor @ 12/06/2003 04:45 AM NY
the beauty of an economic recovery is that it doesn't have to benefit the working class at all. stocks go up as production goes up and sales go up. Americans are going to buy shit whether they can afford it or not. as productivity goes up, that means they don't need the same amount of workers, thus jobs are lost and profits go up, raising the stock prices. factories are moved overseas, where labor is cheap, meanwhile the labor market in America is tight, so people are willing to work for less, and no benefits (now that Medicare is being privatized that is just more money for our corporate masters)
meanwhile, all of the products made in foreign sweat shops (that used to be made here by well paid union workers) are sold back to us at the same price as before, thus profits increase,and the stock market goes up. therefore, since we no longer make anything, more and more Americans are forced into the service industry (which is generally degrading low paying work, no offense intended to all the waiters out there) which is exactly where the rich want us, serving them. thus the servant class is still able to purchase the sweatshop made products, profits go up, and stocks increase. all of this is achieved without any net job gain, and no benefit to anyone but the top 5%, but still the economy is recovering, but only for the right people. we are coming to a point in America where the entire means of production are owned by a group of mega wealthy aristocrats, and the only means of survival for the working class, who used to be at least a silent partner to the means of production, is to join the newly founded (at least newly reinvented in America) servant class. if you couple this with a state (corporate) controlled media, as well as a gradual phasing out of all civil rights (including gun ownership, which they are in fact afraid of) it is easy to see how a once thriving industrialized democracy can become a corporate feudalism.
(I wonder if any of the aristocracy has ever read anything about the French revolution.....) now i dont have an MBA or anything, but this is how i see it, maybe metropolitan can check my math
Posted by justin @ 12/06/2003 01:11 PM NY
