dagblog - Comments for "Sanity in a Time of Madness"

We the People of the United

Richard Day — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:36:52 +0000

In reply to As in "Corporate welfare" ?

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,^{[note 1]} promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America

No corporate in there that I see. ha!!

As in "Corporate welfare" ?

Resistance — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:53:25 +0000

In reply to Really well written and

As in "Corporate welfare" ?

Thanks for the link David. I

Dan Kervick — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:40:39 +0000

In reply to Dan, I agree. in fact there

Thanks for the link David. I was just bookmarking some links to European sites last night. I will check it out.

Really well written and

Richard Day — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:38:53 +0000

In reply to Sanity in a Time of Madness

Really well written and linked and cited. Just a fine statement that most politicians would refuse to recognize.

Americans have little idea, for the most part, what a written constitution is as far as its relationship with a government; let alone any idea about what our Constitution says and for that I am grateful that they read the paper on the Floor of the House. Nothing wrong with that even though they censored it so that no ears be offended concerning our lurid past as slave owners. Kind of like censoring Twain as Orion points out.

How does a sane person connect radio waves to the Constitution let alone TV, cable, the web. Do we just dissolve the FCC then?

So we (the courts) rationalize and use the metaphor.

The Constitution has little to do with this Tea Party movement. Basically these idiots hate the idea of a Black President and welfare for those who are left wanting in an unfair economic system.

Of course 'welfare' appears as a word in the Constitution...hahahahah

Great essay!!

Someone has to suffer? Just

Resistance — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:33:00 +0000

In reply to I like where you're going

Someone has to suffer? Just not them.

The post offers sound reasoning and good rebuttals to the myths and hypocrisy.

Joseph Stiglitz is correct, as usual.

Thanks for the link that led me to this New Year’s Hope against Hope

03/01/2011 By Joseph Stiglitz:

“It has become fashionable among politicians to preach the virtues of pain and suffering, no doubt because those bearing the brunt of it are those with little voice – the poor and future generations”

Someone has to suffer, as long as it isn’t him or her. How selfish is that?

Dan, I agree. in fact there

coatesd — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:08:50 +0000

In reply to I like where you're going

Dan, I agree. in fact there is a great website where that is already underway

www.social-europe.eu

Worth following, I think, if you don't know it already. The UK Labour Party has a new young leader, Ed Miliband, whose people are likely to be open to this too. Time to unite and fight, that is very clear

Best wishes

David Coates

I like where you're going

Dan Kervick — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:22:00 +0000

In reply to Sanity in a Time of Madness

I like where you're going here.

It's not just the United States that is under assault from the forces of concentrated wealth and the political right. Europe is also facing a coordinated rightist attack on social democracy, headed by the financial sector. This might be a good time for European and American progressives to forge a new transatlantic understanding and common approach to fighting back.