Merkel's racist lies | 133 comments (133 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Merkel's racist lies (4.00 / 10)

There's a word for this sort of thing, and it's one of the things that's helped keeping neoliberalism running this long: Asset stripping.

Short term tax cuts which screw the country in the long term.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Wed May 18th, 2011 at 12:10:51 PM EST
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Re: Merkel's racist lies (4.00 / 10)

Asset stripping is the rage in a great many bureaucracies these days. Our university keeps cutting its productive programs, selling the assets to the altar of the budget cut god. No one seems to mind that the revenues these programs produced is also gone because, of course, students are stupid, and if you take away their options, they will keep giving you money anyway even if your herd them into less appealing (though of course productive) programs.

by Upstate NY on Wed May 18th, 2011 at 12:33:34 PM EST
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Re: Merkel's racist lies (4.00 / 7)

Yes. I thought that you were supposed to get more conservative as you got older, but for me aging seems to be a process of getting franker about my distaste for these people. I've always been standoffish about being real activisty, but anymore I just say do it.

If you think universities are real messed up right now, check this out.

I've recently had the idea that sit-ins wouldn't work at the university. So I thought to myself why not shit-ins. They piss you off, you all go in, pop a squat in their office, and then leave.

Seriously though, asset stripping is a huge problem, and we should start to refer to "privatization" schemes that have this effect as such.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Wed May 18th, 2011 at 12:53:26 PM EST
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Oh I remember your diary. Breathtaking.

by Upstate NY on Wed May 18th, 2011 at 01:25:00 PM EST
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Re: Merkel's racist lies (none / 1)

She: I know! We'll sell the silverware, dear!

He: We sold it--- last year.

She: Oh, yes.

"In such an environment it is not surprising that the ills of technology should seem curable only through the application of more technology..." John W Aldridge

by proximity1 on Wed May 18th, 2011 at 02:39:02 PM EST
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Merkel's racist lies | 133 comments (133 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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