By: bluehill
@foodriots: Also the chart above is in dollars not FTEs so the difference in employee numbers is accounted for.
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@PeakVT: I really do not want to find out whether your view or Gene’s is correct.
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OT: I saw a post in some midnight thread about Syria and the Kurds. It seemed very interesting ( although somewhat in a “Let’s you and him fight.” kind of way.) It really seems to shatter various old...
View ArticleBy: Turgidson
but Republicans are all insane and need to have anvils dropped on them. A lot of the brain-damaged teabaggers are insane. Guys like Boner and McConnell are just soulless assholes who care more about...
View ArticleBy: Frankensteinbeck
You think we would then ramp up government spending, but Republicans are all insane and need to have anvils dropped on them. And this is the racism part of the equation. The GOP would be partisan...
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@catclub: The war with Iran alone will add a trillion to the deficit. Might not be time to declare a winner but something to think about. The farm bill is another hint of things to come. Take 9 billion...
View ArticleBy: Roy G.
Why are they doing it? For the same reason the automotive companies bought up the streetcar lines in the early 20th century. They hate competition.
View ArticleBy: Ben Johannson
@foodriots: We aren’t in a typical recovery. Krugman has recently acknowledged economic geowth is being seriously attenuated by massive debt on household balance sheets, a major point in his favor. The...
View ArticleBy: Anoniminous
@Ben Johannson: We aren’t in a typical recovery. People need to nail that to their foreheads. The last time the US simultaneously experienced: 1. Falling house prices 2. Consumers restricting purchases...
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@catclub: IMO we are pre-1929. The average person hasn’t realized just how bad the economic and financial situation is. Once they do, and really start cutting back on their purchases [ETA: and paying...
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@Frankensteinbeck: We leave out the white women in this equation. I don’t think we should. Not as large a percentage as the men but not an insignificant number either. Some of them are just as crazy...
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@Anoniminous: Maybe I run in a different socioeconomic group than you but most everyone I know from small business owners to day labors knows that the economy is in the shitter. They may not know why...
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@Ruckus: I don’t dispute that. People, as you say, aware the economy is bad. However I don’t think people understand just how total scrod, along several different axis, we is. Example, Mid-West farmers...
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