Jim Deivne wrote:
Does anyone on this list know of research indicating that the percentage of
workers employed in the "primary sectors" of good jobs and relative job
security has been shrinking relative to the total?
Writing from Bolivia, Tom Kruse asks the appropriate question: In what
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Max What I had in mind was natalism, a la
France, hardly eugenics.
Still, natalism is obnoxious, since it is supposed to build up
the "native" population. France did it to build up their army, I believe.
This would help them fight the "Huns" and Algerians. . . .
Not necessarily. It could
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1. United Church makes res-school apology
2. Res-schools:
The BLS Daily Reported,
__Consumer spending greatly exceeded income growth in September,
triggering a negative personal savings rate for the first time in almost
40 years, but analysts caution against reading too much into the
development.
__The National Association of Purchasing Management
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Max Sawicky wrote:
Funny thing is, class seemed to play more in some
of the Southern Dem victories, and in some so-called
'right-wing' democratic campaigns. The model is
the outgoing Georgia governor Zell Miller, who
was 'tough on crime' but used lottery proceeds
to
At 10:33 AM 11/4/98 -0800, you wrote:
Max asked,
What in tarnation is "the myth of the state"?
Tom answers:
Another way of saying "the myth of the state" would be the "story of the
origin of the state".
It can be seen in the contrast between John Locke (whose ideas summarize
the liberal
Following are two articles from the world socialist web site
Homelessness and hunger in Ontario
By Lee Parsons
23 October 1998
Several reports over the past weeks have drawn attention
to the
Max asked,
What in tarnation is "the myth of the state"?
MBS
Another way of saying "the myth of the state" would be the "story of the
origin of the state". It isn't necessarily a lie or a falsehood but it is
necessarily a fiction. It is a fiction because it tells about something that
occured
At 10:44 AM 11/4/98 -0800,Tom wrote:
__Consumer spending greatly exceeded income growth in September,
triggering a negative personal savings rate for the first time in almost
40 years, but analysts caution against reading too much into the
development.
etc.
Doug will point out (correctly) that
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Ford chief predicts doom - Says 'dogfight' will kill all but six companies
(Reuters) The auto industry is in a savage "global dogfight' that will speed
consolidation and tumble some companies into failure,
At 02:19 PM 11/4/98 -0500, you wrote:
Ford chief predicts doom -
this font is so small that I read it as "Ford thief."
Sorry.
Ford chief predicts doom - Says 'dogfight' will kill all but six companies
(Reuters) The auto industry is in a savage "global dogfight' that will speed
consolidation
At 05:30 PM 11/4/98 -0400, Victor Navasky wrote:
Yeah, but...
The only problem is Alex Cockburn is not our radical columnist. Maybe
he once was (and he is certainly a brilliant polemicist), but these days
he spends much of his Nation time attacking people on the left. What he
is, is Alex,
Louis wrote:
It's really quite simple. Cockburn is the house radical at the Nation.
I dunno. What about Katha Pollitt, whose politics are (in my estimation)
better than AC's. and Hitchens, who may be an arrogant ass and have some
bad politics but has a lot of lefty-but-not-liberal things to
I'm not sure the conclusion of this dialogue takes clairvoyance, Louis.
Navasky will check your Website and invite you aboard as the house Red.
The whole world will be rocked from TriBeCa to Claremont Ave. Go for it!
valis
We have already noted that university administrators are using corporate
salaries as the appropriate template for their own. Someone just wrote me
to tell me that clergy who run independent churches are doing the same.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico,
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Jim Devine wrote:
Anyway, _why_ is saving negative? is it because the stock-market boom (now
gone) encouraged excessive consumption, presumably by the upper middles and
the uppers? (the wealth effect, expectations effect) Or is simply that
income slowed rapidly so that consumer consumption plans
Oh dear, somebody here is getting much more serious than the situation
warrants. Comrade Eric (I can call you that, can't I? You can call me
valis - lower case - in either assent or protest), Comrade Eric, I'm just
sort of a court jester around here, an alarm clock sent by a merciful
deity who
Louis, why don't you begin gathering signatures of those who agree with
you on this matter. You caninclude me.
At 05:30 PM 11/4/98 -0400, Victor Navasky wrote:
Yeah, but...
The only problem is Alex Cockburn is not our radical columnist. Maybe
he once was (and he is certainly a brilliant
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quoth Louis:
I'm not sure the conclusion of this dialogue takes clairvoyance, Louis.
Navasky will check your Website and invite you aboard as the house Red.
The whole world will be rocked from TriBeCa to Claremont Ave. Go for it!
Shit. Navasky should come to me hat in hands to request
Would it be right to say that the Democrats have actually done better out
of these elections than they might have expected before the Lewinsky story
broke?
Could be. Though they had some things to look
forward to sans Lewinsky. The R's had overreached
in policy areas and had been internally
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__Consumer spending greatly exceeded income growth in September,
Funny thing is, class seemed to play more in some
of the Southern Dem victories . . .
According to my correspondent in Auburn, Ala, proposing using a
lottery for higher ed bucks really helped the Demo (forget his name)
to win there over the egregious theocrat Fob James. It seems if
At 04:05 PM 11/4/98 -0400 Victor Navasky wrote:
Dear LP:
Thanks for your past support and your report on why you have "stopped"
supporting The Nation. 1) My assumption is that the editorial writer
was using the term "statesman" in a generic rather than an honorific
sense; perhaps we shd have
I suspect that if you took a survey of your readership, you would find many
more Marxists than you would have anticipated. You simply can not take us
for granted. The Democratic Party does this with blacks, Latinos, gays and
women. Marxism is a different sort of thing. It is a deeply rooted
At 02:19 PM 11/4/98 -0500, you wrote:
Ford chief predicts doom -
this font is so small that I read it as "Ford thief."
Jim, nobody steals Fords. Accords, Lexus, BMW, not Fords.
Gene Coyle
Trotman was probably Greider's source for a similar statement in his One
World
The Asian crisis may allow some companies to dismantle some of their
capacity, but I still see the inablity to absorb all the capacity as a
major threat to industrial capital.
While financial capital's thirst
Since this is being circulated on the Internet, where there are many
non-USA participants, a word or two about the Nation would be helpful. The
Nation was established in 1865 by a group of abolitionists and is the
authoritative voice of left-liberalism in the US. During the 1930s and 40s,
it was
Jim Devine wrote,
Doug will point out (correctly) that there's a difference between the
economy slowing (or going into a recession) and a crisis
There's also a difference between normal stability and being unusually
vulnerable to crisis. It doesn't snow every day in winter, either, but it's
a
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Max Sawicky wrote:
I would put a much more benign construction on these
two cases, namely that somewhere inside the Southern
white working class, Bible-thumper or otherwise, is a
constituency susceptible to left economic populism, and
the emergence of such a tendency
At 02:19 PM 11/4/98 -0500, you wrote:
Ford chief predicts doom -
this font is so small that I read it as "Ford thief."
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THE HIDDEN HOLOCAUST AGAINST THE POOR
by Eric Sommer
The advent of the World Crisis, with its' disturbing mix of economic,
ecological, and technical Y2000bug elements, , brings new importance to the
hidden holocaust against the poor which has been taking place
What in tarnation is "the myth of the state"?
MBS
Max:
In the same vein, it's not simply about economic provision,
but about the values one would impart to children and the ethic
of responsibility (both individual and communal). In a less
positive vein, it's implicitly about breeding for the nation.
On the whole, the pro-family advantage
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