Dmitry Orlov's Update

[don]

Jump ahead to the 14 minute mark . . . .

[cpnscarlet]

Re: Dmitry Orlov's Update

Uh, excuse me???

The teacher unions are weak and contribute to a literate society? Seems to me in my years in NYC and in New Mexico, they just got more and more and did less and less. Just like the...

Garbage Workers Union
Firefighters Union
Police Union
Transit Workers Union......

I only agree with Orlov in that it's "no longer 'our government'", but in my perspective, most municipal and many state governments are in the pcokets of the said unions and are being held hostage and getting shaken down by them. Wisconson is the "what needs to be done" example, not a harbinger of "the weakest being blames". I for one think Keiser gives PM investors a bad name.

My dad was a stock transfer agent for DTC in the 80s and made less than the garbage men and the school janitors. We can't afford that crap anymore. If you want to be paid like a f**king professional, you should have to at least go to f**king college. And most anyone with a BS can teach...1-12 teachers, in general, are not that "skilled". They may have a hard job, but their teaching degree doesn't automatically make them f**king saints.I had a few in my days who were definitely from that other place in the spiritual realm!!

[metalman]

Re: Dmitry Orlov's Update

Uh, excuse me???

The teacher unions are weak and contribute to a literate society? Seems to me in my years in NYC and in New Mexico, they just got more and more and did less and less. Just like the...

Garbage Workers Union
Firefighters Union
Police Union
Transit Workers Union......

I only agree with Orlov in that it's "no longer 'our government'", but in my perspective, most municipal and many state governments are in the pcokets of the said unions and are being held hostage and getting shaken down by them. Wisconson is the "what needs to be done" example, not a harbinger of "the weakest being blames". I for one think Keiser gives PM investors a bad name.

My dad was a stock transfer agent for DTC in the 80s and made less than the garbage men and the school janitors. We can't afford that crap anymore. If you want to be paid like a f**king professional, you should have to at least go to f**king college. And most anyone with a BS can teach...1-12 teachers, in general, are not that "skilled". They may have a hard job, but their teaching degree doesn't automatically make them f**king saints.I had a few in my days who were definitely from that other place in the spiritual realm!!

orlov = lefty doombat messiah.

[Shakespear]

Re: Dmitry Orlov's Update

in the 80s and made less than the garbage men and the school janitors.

I remember this very well also. The biggest effect on me made the salaries of passport control officers and garbage workers in NY. My salary was no where close to that.

However,

We can't afford that crap anymore.

???
http://dmarron.com/2011/03/29/abc-fi...t-600-million/

[sutro]

Re: Dmitry Orlov's Update

Uh, excuse me???

The teacher unions are weak and contribute to a literate society? Seems to me in my years in NYC and in New Mexico, they just got more and more and did less and less. Just like the...

Garbage Workers Union
Firefighters Union
Police Union
Transit Workers Union......

I only agree with Orlov in that it's "no longer 'our government'", but in my perspective, most municipal and many state governments are in the pcokets of the said unions and are being held hostage and getting shaken down by them. Wisconson is the "what needs to be done" example, not a harbinger of "the weakest being blames". I for one think Keiser gives PM investors a bad name.

My dad was a stock transfer agent for DTC in the 80s and made less than the garbage men and the school janitors. We can't afford that crap anymore. If you want to be paid like a f**king professional, you should have to at least go to f**king college. And most anyone with a BS can teach...1-12 teachers, in general, are not that "skilled". They may have a hard job, but their teaching degree doesn't automatically make them f**king saints.I had a few in my days who were definitely from that other place in the spiritual realm!!

I thought Wall Street Banksters caused the fiscal problems that we are now blaming on public servants.

[coolhand]

Re: Dmitry Orlov's Update

A 40-something Ukrainian friend of mine recently asked what the political conflict in Ohio & Wisconsin was about. When I told them that the fight was over curtailing the pay & bargaining rights of public unions/government employees, they said unsolicited "Oh that's interesting. That's exactly what the Soviet government started to do shortly before the rouble collapsed in the early 1990's." That comment hit me like a slug to the chest...cracking down on public unions may be a guide post that we are that much closer to the ka-POOM...

[don]

Re: Dmitry Orlov's Update

orlov = lefty doombat messiah.

Orlov is a sign of the times . . . .



a phone-shot of our general milieu . . . .

[don]

Re: Dmitry Orlov's Update

Paul Craig Roberts makes the following point this morning:

Washington thinks that it is a good allocation of scarce resources to devote $1.1 trillion annually to military and security “needs”? Is this a sign of Washington’s paranoia? Is it a sign that only Washington has enemies?

Or is it an indication that Washington assigns the highest value to empire and squanders taxpayers’ monies and the country’s credit-worthiness on military footprints, while millions of Americans lose their homes and their jobs?

Washington’s expensive failures in Iraq and Afghanistan have not tempered the imperial ambition. Washington can continue to rely on the print and TV media to cover up its failures and to hide its agendas, but expensive failures will remain expensive failures. Sooner or later Washington will have to acknowledge that the pursuit of empire has bankrupted the country.

It is paradoxical that Washington and its European “partners” are seeking to extend control over foreign lands abroad while immigration transforms their cultures and ethnic compositions at home. As Hispanics, Asians, Africans, and Muslims of various ethnicities become a larger and larger percentage of the populations of the “First World,” support for the white man’s empire fades away. Peoples desiring education and in need of food, shelter, and medical care will be hostile to maintaining military outposts in the countries of their origins.

Who exactly is occupying whom?

Parts of the US are reverting to Mexico. For example, demographer Steve Murdock, a former director of the US Census Bureau, reports that two-thirds of Texas children are Hispanics and concludes: “It’s basically over for Anglos.”

Ironic, isn’t it, while Washington and its NATO puppets are busy occupying the world, they are being occupied by the world.

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts04012011.html


As tempting as it is to ignore, we live in a political economy, and not just an investment paradigm.


(On Roberts ethnic comments, can a changing domestic ethnic composition realign how the USA conducts itself in the world? Is this reflected in the decision to have a professional army - no draft - and to increase its privatization, including the hiring of mercenaries, in the military?)

[zmas28]

Re: Dmitry Orlov's Update

Yes, as Marc Faber said in a recent interview (I believe on CNBC), when the common workers see the largesse handed out to the richer folks (he mentions the bailouts & GE paying no taxes), and with the gas prices going up, the unions will be motivated to ask for more, thus feeding into wage inflation. I believe that the Tea party & Republicans attempting to break the backs of the unions has a practical as well as philosophical motive. Meanwhile, as far as the proposed budget cutting is concerned, everything is on the table, except for Bush's tax cuts.

[shiny!]

Re: Dmitry Orlov's Update

I thought Wall Street Banksters caused the fiscal problems that we are now blaming on public servants.

+1