jon comes through for dailykos style 0bama ass kissing. oh well, if he does a good job maybe the DCCC or DNC will pay him to be a paid hack this year or next.

rmm.

possibly – I’m 53, so Ms. Jackson was a bit before my time. I did a quick wiki on Ms. Jackson – 4 years with the Royal Shakespeare Company – at 77 she delivers her lines ;)

glad you enjoyed it – I’ve watched it 3 times now!

rmm

a friend from across the pond posted the following on her facebook

http://youtu.be/XDtClJYJBj8

Glenda Jackson is BLUNT on the … wonders… of Thatcherism. ‘they knew the price of everything and the value of nothing’

rmm.

how much of the NON-fighting diaper pissing liberal thing is due to post WW-II affluence?
I’ve been a serf of various kinds in Boston or Seattle for the last 35 years – there is this whole goody-goody noblerer smarterer betterer upper middle class Democratic crowd who’ve drunk the kool-aid on the meritocracy in part cuz they’ve benefited from having the right test scores, the right schools, the right degrees, the right vacation homes … they did NOT grow up around really really broke people who fight over everything cuz they’ve nothing to lose.
There is NO middle class, but, there are still appx. 24,000,000 making over 75k a year and there are appx. 40,000,000 households making over 75k a year – so, it is easy to NOT see the 214,000,000 BELOW 75k and the 80,000,000 households BELOW 75k, cuz ya don’t live with ‘em.
I’ve been doing the teacher thing for 8 years – teachers are currently really highly paid, after 4 decades of wiping out family wage jobs. Teachers bitch about all their degrees and their low pay compared to the bandits of Goldman – and there are 190,000,000 over 15 with money income below 50,000 a year.
Too many are mesmerized by a replay of “I have a dream” & we’ll all hug and we’ll all weep and Sally Fields will hold up her “union” sign and all will sort itself out … hardly anyone watches the committees f’kign with the rules after the legislation is written, hardly anyone watches the legislation being written – they’re all too busy weeping at the noble speeches, getting another graduate degree, leaving the nitty gritty work to the little nitty gritty people …
People didn’t fight in the 30′s by sending a email through moveon after they watched “I have a dream” for the 444th time and got fired up … they fought cuz with 25% unemployment they were f’king starving.
oh well. bread and circuses, anyone?
rmm

In 2006 when I was 46 I did NOT vote for Cant-Do-Shit and I wrote in … whatever … AND it was the first time I did not vote for a major office Democratic candidate. I puked in mouth voting HOPE in 2008 … and then voted for NO statewide / federal Dims in 2010 … and I ALWAYS feel good !!!

Everytime I read about Cant-Do-Shit selling me out, it feels better that I did NOT vote for her … just like I didn’t vote for Raygun-Cheney.

I had assumed that this CON$ultant piece of crap had nothing in it good for us little peeps – looks like I was right!

Oh yeah – great dkos front page “coverage” …

can’t get your head around the fact that these sell outs are just sell outs, can you?

rmm.

1 of these days … I randomly see the local news where some slimeball rips off 100k or 300k from Boeing or from little old ladies & the slimeball gets 3 or 5 years.

When the business you work in affects tens of thousands, or … tens of millions, and you rip off 7 or 8 or 9 figures, you should be looking at 20 years BEFORE the parole board can even open your file.

skeptonomist above says fear of punishment isn’t a deterrent – bullshit. lots and lots of people will NOT participate when they see bandits getting 20 years – oh yeah, and while the bandits were obviously not deterred before, they’re deterred NOW, cuz they’re pounding f’king rocks.

IF we had a truly fair justice system, I’d vote for putting them in a gibbet. (how many junk derivatives do you sell hanging in a gibbet? )

rmm.

Jon’s writing, again, makes me sick. It has taken about 5 minutes to remember that his DLC DNC stenography / world view is what I go to dailykos for – NOT FDL.

Ashley is gonna scare the middle, and, we’ll lose!

“Funny” thing is – 25 years ago when I was 28, and I was 9 buck an hour cook in boston, and dud-crap-kis was running, this was the rap / knock on people like Jesse Jackson, AND, I believed it.

I thought these Ivy’d lying thieving DLC sell out scum were on my side, AND, they were using some kind of sophisticated strategy to turn right wing lies on their lying f’king heads.

screw you jon.

rmm.

The Split is really among a Sliver at the top – In the Sliver are the millions of households with over $100,000 a year in household income – NOT Rich!! like Gate$ or Trump, but far enough from the day to day travails of the junk-mart economy (the other 60 and 80%) to not have a clue of what that daily life is like.
The junk-marters know that the pile of student debts will be probably rewarded with default and shit jobs. The junk-marters know that their health “insurance” is a legal sham available to those with the money to play legal games – not them. The junk-marters know that unemployment is unreliable and retraining a gamble, and that before their retirement check is direct deposited, all kinds of thieving lying yuppie scum and just flat out theives are gonna dip into that check.
Economically, there are roughly 2 kinds in Sliver. There are people like obama and clinton — pretty much up by their boot straps. Most of the Sliver are people more like Gore, Kerry and Dukakis – they came from that Sliver.
Politically, the progressive “leaders” in that Sliver are political incompetents, diaper pissing cowards, or a mix of each. Their “compromises” don’t count as sell outs to them cuz they’re not part of the junk-mart economy. The Corp-0-rat DLC Third Way New Dem lying, yuppie scum sell outs are just the top of the management scum sewage tank. They’re democrats cuz their NOT racist, sexist, bigoted drooling 13th century flat earthers – even though they’re rich pig ass kissers.
The “division” in the dem party is at the top, in the $liver. Then there is the other 60 and 80% of the population …

rmm.

let me put my prejudices up front and center – since I was 15 in ’75, or before, I’ve suspected that most white collar workers aren’t particularly useful. While I spent most years from ’78 to ’95 slaving in kitchens as a cook, I did start a ‘white collar’ … career … in ’97 as a enterprise support serf at Microsoft, with my new math degree.
Thank you personal accounting class in 1993 for helping me decide on a math degree!
5 years in that gawd-awful snake pit made me 99% sure that 95% of white collar workers ain’t inventing the warp drive, despite their degrees, credentials, and job titles, but, they are just shuffling stoopid paper in stoooooopider processes.

About Tax Rates: Given my prejudices, there was a dinky appeal to me for flat tax rates. I think there should be 3 levels, period.

I also think there are ONLY 7 kinds of financial transactions:

1. I work for you, you pay me.
2. I loan you money, you pay me interest and the principal.
3. I invest money with you, you give me a cut of the action.
4. I get money from you cuz you gave it to me.
5. I get money from you cuz we gambled and I won.
6. I get money from you by selling you something you want.
7. I get money from you cuz I took it from you with legal bullshit / robbery.

Really – with some rewording, maybe there are few more ways to get money, or a few fewer ways to get money, but –

WTF are we as a community doing these days, other than most of us are working stiffs and paying interest, and all our surplus goes to support those running pyramid schemes of legal bullshit / robbery?

(ding ding ding! Watching Football!)

rmm.

YUP!

there were a lot of reasons I voted for these dukakis-clinton-gore-kerry-obama yuppie sell outs over the decades:

1. as someone who grew up on welfare in his teens, and transitioned to the Perils of Pauline financial aid system for college (1970 age 10 to … ’85) I really really HOPED that these yuppie’d ivy’d phake ass moderates would actually make stuff work – then we could shove the raygun lies back down the dark holes those lies came from.

2. I really really thought they were going to use those high powered degrees, credentials, rolodexes, contacts, brains … to do more than just be another lying fucking elite of parasitic aristocrats. yawn. oops.

I was 43 10 years ago when Howard Dean came out with “I want to know…” and I was 46 when Nancy The Dilettante took impeachment off the table, so we could win Congress with a big majority …

and pretend to cower to Stupid-pak and Lieberman all through 2009-10.

oh well – 0bummer has freed me from doing anything for the yuppie sell out scum he leads, so, thanks for that! It is kind of fascinating watching all the Stockholm Syndrome / Patty Hearst stuff going on today about how 11-nty dimensional 0bummer is … ha ha ha.

rmm.

Peterr,

I use household income or personal money income tables a lot – these work.

One table you’ve referenced in your linked to diary is finc07 – I think The Story of the Jelly-Bone of the Democratic Party is in these numbers –

appx. 59,076,000 families are below $100,000 a year,
appx. 21,453,000 families are above that $100,000 a year line

appx. 48,082,000 families are below $75,000 a year,
appx. 32,447,000 families are above that $75,000 a year level.

when you’re 1 of 21 million or 1 of 32 million, you actually live around lots and lots of people just like you! it is REAL easy to not see the millions working the junk-mart-barista jobs – these neo-lib sell outs that cost your family a few hundred here and a few hundred there —

all so cheney’s buddies at exxon or timmy’s buddies at goldman can rip you off —

you can ‘afford’ those f’king sell outs – oh yeah, and when you look at money income of individuals, if your 1 of the millions making over 75 or over 100k a year, you really really really can’t rock the boat, cuz if you do and if you’re tossed over the side, you’re fucked.

happy new year!

rmm.

DSWright – there are zillions of good reasons to not give a flying f’k about what I say – BUT …

if you’re gonna use right wing fucking lies in your titles, lies like “Fiscal Cliff”, well, I can get that at dkos or the NYT or WAPO … or my 0bummer / Washington State Dim-0-Crap$ emails …

don’t be another fucking stooge stenographer.

?

rmm.
seattle.

who are anti-fascist bloggers running ideas & stories beyond “Swoon! 0bummer-dlc-thrid-way-blue-dog-clinton-yuppie-sell-out has sold us out! Swoon!”

jon walker belongs with mcjoan and that jed dude over at dkos.

I need a little more content than what I get at naked capitalism.

thanks for any ideas

rmm.

I’m so PROUD to have written in ‘mywife’ for POTUS 2012! After voting for political incompetents, political cowards, and f’king yuppie scum sell outs from age 18 in ’78 to 2008,

all calling themselves democraps –

0bummer was the final nail in the coffin of the LOTE horseshit.

thanks 0bummer! oh, by the way – I’m 99% certain the lying f’k is going to sell us working stiffs out. What’s wall street want, and that is what we all will get.

rmm.

bill moyers took a break and came back …

you better come back, fucker!

rmm.

good f’king riddance. I probably voted for this guy back in teh 80′s when I lived in Boston, and I sure as hell wasted my vote on him in 1992 and 1996 …

OOOPS – that is the OTHER sell out asshole I voted for, Clinton!

Gawd, through in the votes for Gore 2000, Kerry 2004, 0-bummer 2008, Dudcrap-kis 2004 … the ONLY vote I’m proud of is Jimmy Carter. (Mondale’s pathetic campaign after 1980 was inexcusable – as are the rest …)

Maybe m-ass-holes will get to vote for a REAL democrat, instead of some coakley-kerry dilettante dishrag, obsessed with making sure David Gergen isn’t upset?

When I hear this guy’s name, ya know, the asshole who couldn’t beat bush BUT who was “electable”, I get puke in my mouth.

rmm