Hey mas ,start with a pump and dump ,go through the leveraged buyout steps of a Mitt or Milken hostile corporate takeover , end with squeezing value via bankruptcies as unions are busted and their pension liabilities unloaded onto taxpayers .With an understanding that this scam always requires government subsidies to exist from the initial junk bonds ,amortized write-downs via depreciations and losses from disaggregated asset stranding ,the same process can be evidenced with austerity creating subsidized debt issues ,pump and dump fraud .and a compliant p.m. or prez for looting public pensions ,purchasing cheap assets via privatization ,deregulating public monopolies and you can fill in the balance with bail-ins and haircuts and defaults .Example :Blankfein /Paulson and Greece’s George P..were the pillage-elite of this little wrecking crew .

Hey mas ,you still don’t get it .All this ranting about economics and intellectuals is mental sewage .Krugman is a a sucker and a square who never posited a meaningful original thought in his life .At least thousands ,if not hundreds of thousands knew a real Keynesian stimulus was needed from day one .

What neither you nor Krugman can still grasp is that austerity is an invaluable tool of high-powered finance and it will be here for many years .Maybe you are embarrassed at this late date to admit the banksters have bamboozled you with a hedge-fund strategy ,yet this is the case .Why would you dismiss eCAHN and cling to Krugman ?At some point you need to get beyond Nobels ,and intellectuals , and all this establishment conformity and think for yourself or at least street-smart investors .

You are very well-informed ,so you obviously know the criminal nature of ruling orders throughout history ,yet you seek refuge in the mass thinking of the politically manipulated conformists .

Yes Sarah@ 9, I expected creepy and invasive ,but not to the degree of which you noted .

Watching WA . Journal this morning made me “hear ” what a Zombie Obamacare was ,when this dem told a caller from Redding Ca . that she was out of luck because the exchange had no one to treat her heart condition .The dem was an ex-ins. exec ,louise Capps ? .who sounded like a libertarian when telling the caller that such problems will be pervasive during the formative stage of implementation .

I certainly don’t want to see the pre-existings or poor people lose coverage ,so lets get on board when single -pay advocates return to the frontline ,which is a fait accompli .

Obamacare is a structural loser ,which depends on these ridiculous exchange set-ups to initiate competition among oligopolies that syndicated themselves into monopoly market powers so they are protected from competition , and can instead pursue rent-seeking acquisition via government socialization .

When this systemic failure blows , with the aid of pub subversion,monopoly media will make the corporate case that nothing works ,yet the truth is that single payer can easily carry the day with no more effort than when liberals had the power to shut progressives down for Obama to advance his Heritage Agenda developed by insurance moguls .

The neoliberal left has zero credibility and nothing can then stop real change ,not for progressives ,but the citizenry for which they struggle .

Yes Marym#11, I heard Amy Goodman say 50 jobs post-construction ,but I’m not sure if we disagree ,because the MSM spin is thousands of jobs and I never hear any push back to this “”perceived job creator “” .I would imagine Chris Hayes has peddled the truth ,but we both know perception is reality in politics ,and thousands of jobs is the supply-side perception and hence remains the conventional wisdom.

Hey reat#1 ,a ceo can be sued by shareholders if she loses a bid or delimits profits to respect nature or global warming and whatnot ? That’s not how it works ,but as with the banksters’ ‘mortgage fraud ,I’m sure Obama will say he plans to ” encourage ” the oligarchs to be as green as possible .I n fairness to Obama ,he has no power over the ruling corporate monopolists .He ,as Clinton ,are just pitchmen for Wall.St,and due to our willingness to keep a privatized electoral process ,that’s just the way it works .If we let the corporate oligarchs fund our election campaigns ,why should anyone care about us ?

Moreover ,this reflects one of many unremarked benefits of austerity ,insofar as the a depressed economy will make job seekers take up arms against environmentalists if the kids are going hungry .Believe me ,this is well-understood in power-elite circles .

I’m sorry dude ,I didn’t mean to piss you off .Obviously you needed help with drug prohibition ,and you don’t seem capable of constructing a small paragraph ,but I;m sure you are a real tough guy with all the guns before butter conservatism .If you are good looking and rugged ,who cares about being mentally ungifted .
I’m okay and you are okay,so just chill out and have a lovely evening .

peace my brother

Hey GB , yeah that’ pretty nifty reverse psychology ,but if you have a point about drugs ,just spit it out .If you feel railing against the DLC is trolling ,then what part of your progressive sensibilities are being attacked ?? Unless ,you don’t realize you are defending the same corporatist agenda as the pubs , a neoliberal model that is destroying the planet via imperialism ,then I suggest you are the troll .However ,if you can’t make the connection between guns and the illegal drug markets that require 100 million to function in America ,then try to remember a televised bust that didn’t have a cache of weapons .

This is deregulated capitalism,guy ,where guns are essential for security and market regulation .I wrote this as if I were schooling a slow-witted child ,so you can respond until bedtime .I never return to a thread ,move on dude , it’s learn today only , if you wish further guidance .

Hey bluedot ,is your point that hard work is a waste of time to empower the ballot with some real value via movement politics , yet bullet power is an unworthy option.How about Gar’s vision ? Or ,how about inertia and venting on FDL about being politically victimized ?Maybe cyber-assymmetry ?

Please clarify ,cuz we don’t want to start the revolution without you .

I don;t want to label Gar , if only because it would marginalize what he is proposing ,but he is certainly more enlightened than any liberal .When I think of every great inventor ,which certainly ranks higher than innovator , I don’t ever apperceive liberals.I think Henry Wallace was the most significant voice of the American left ,and was the moral and activist force for FDR ,but ,as mas noted ,the democrats viewed him as Wall St.’s #1 enemy and used a brutal power play to sabotage his presidential ascendency .They found this toady pleaser named Truman who knew his place in the royalist scheme .Intellectuals need tags ,but Gar is the same as Wallace insofar as knowing the tag compromises the mission ,and that is why they accept the weenie stereotype of liberal rather than threaten the status-quo .

Mas ,you should check out Chris Hedges’ great book ,The Death of Liberalism.

For anyone who is politically aware ,and hence knows statism is moribund and should just die if only to save the planet by making ruling corporate transnationals serve the people or die by elephantine scale ,must check out Gar as he adumbrates the only possible course for sustainable democracy .No transnationals ,no need for imperial militarism to protect these ,ah ,”"American interests” .

Thanks step ,but don’t appraise me until I find some peers .The repo man took my punching bag ,but this is too easy .Have a lovely evening .

Oh .to G&B ,drug legalization doesn’t mean commercialization .Meth is already legal ,you just loosen regulation to Sixties level ,and hence have a more liberal medical access.The illegal black market came in the Seventies when Nixon tightened controls and states followed with various reclassifications .Amazing ,how mental midgetry will believe in free market magic prevailing over government incompetency ,then believe a self-serving government can flaunt its bureaucratic prowess over the most powerful commodities markets in the world .

Must be previous success in reducing drug availability that makes you believe in prohibition .eh ?

If you guys think Paul is a right winger and the DLC product is even to the left of center ,then Rahm’s description was dead on the money .I would like to vote for a progressive ,you know like Jill Stein if she could get spoiler leverage ,but we all know how boggsy feels about progressives .However ,if no progressive could fuck up the DLC stooge ,then I would vote for Paul because you warmongering imperialists must be challenged by someone other than than Hillary ,Joe or some other fascist torchbearer of the fi-fi right who takes falls and blames the puritanical fascists to advance the same Wall St. agenda .

You losers know I’m right about the issues ,but you are weak and cowardly so you take on wordplay as a sad-sack defense .No wonder the dems mock and ridicule you ,nobody likes people who have no self-respect .Once again ,you will take whatever abuse that is heaped upon you ,extract nothing for your support ,and then come back and say “maybe they will care this time and be nice to me” .A text-book profile in battered spouse abuse .

I will let you guys have an emotional rescue with the last word .Make it profound and nasty ,then pretend you really schooled me and won something for a change .

I will vote for Rand Paul in a heartbeat if he can take out the DLC corporatists and all the crazy old reactionaries who gave the party to them and continue to enable this crypto-republican trash to sell us out by pretending to be victim of the political climate they create ,e.g. ,Gitmo ,the p.o. ,the filibuster ,sequestration ,the perennial debt risis and I have more and you all know them well

Back-door austerity ,sanctioned mortgage fraud ,bankster socialism with criminal immunity ,grand-bargain for Wall St .and more slashing of benefits for us .

Want Paul to go waaay down ? Well ,he’s going right after the youth vote who are fed up with the drug war farce and its Jim Crow applications ,drone madness and all these barbaric military interventions that also focus on poor people of color .

If Paul lies about everything ,at least his supporters can say they were fresh lies that advanced the struggle as pposed to the dem base that serves as a fur trader’s dream ,because you can skin them over and over again with the same lies .

Paul is the best triangulator since Clinton ,and knows if he can split the black vote ,the old hag is fucked and her loyalists can hang up their NPR fanny packs and snivel about crotch politics and SCOTUS and all the other fi-fi issues that reside in privileged ,class-averse orbits .Ban gun violence ?To eliminate guns ,drugs must be legalized. Paul has already said as much while ,correctly painting the death penalty as racist.

As evidenced yesterday with regular Obama bashers gushing over Hillary andJ Joe,do you honestly think
only one of these DLC clones can be selected for a daily vituperation without most FDL readers detecting such racist duplicity ? I’m white and it makes me cringe .If it’s DLC,it leads at the pleasure and vetting of Robert Rubin and his Wall St. cronies,you know ,like Pete Peterson .