Nonsense, occasional vindictive silliness never hurt anything. I spent
a great of deal of time on another list having to explain why I did
not want Clinton impeached by the right wing. An occassional reminder
that he is one of the bad guys, that we are defending him on civil
liberties grounds, as
> BY HEATHER CHAPLIN
> The very real problems of the modern-day workplace -- stagnant salaries,
> long hours, economic disparity, demoralizing conditions, eroding civil
> liberties -- have been trivialized in the incredibly unfunny world of
> "Dilbert" and essentially ignored by the business pa
Quoth Gar Lipow:
> Jim Hurd on another lists proposed he accept voluntary chemical
> castration as the price of staying in office... I suggested the
> surgical kind would probably be more acceptable to Clinton, as he is
> used to trading his balls for political power.
>
> James Devine wrote:
> >
Frank Durgin ponders, in part:
.
> Net farm income in 1993 was $43.6 billion. The US Department of
> Agriculture's budget that year was $63 Billion.
> [I]f in addition to the $63 billion
> spent by the Federal Departm
>Does anyone know if there is a source that gives US combined state
spending. What I have in mind here is if in addition to the $63 billion
spent by the Federal Department of Agriculture one added total state
spending governments it would all come to a pretty lofty sum. I would like
to be able to
Folloiwng are what I consider some very significant US Farm Statistics
Total number of farms in US in 1992: 1,925,000
The largest 16,000 (0.8% of all US farms) accounted for 33% of all farm
sales.
The largest 47,000 (2.4 % of all US farms) accounted for 45.9% of all farm
sales.
The largest 126
Jim Hurd on another lists proposed he accept voluntary chemical
castration as the price of staying in office... I suggested the
surgical kind would probably be more acceptable to Clinton, as he is
used to trading his balls for political power.
James Devine wrote:
>
> from SLATE: >Forget censure.
Jim Devine wrote,
>Tom, I think this is much too simple. The US wanted to defend its empire
>against any kind of nationalist revolt, especially those which were
>left-leaning in any way. The invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965 had
>nothing to do with demographics. The US leaders thought th
from SLATE: >Forget censure. Forget impeachment. How about putting the Big
Creep to work clearing roadside trash or dishing out soup kitchen grub?
David Plotz proposes a community-service sentence for Clinton.<
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CROW AGENCY, Mont. Leroy Stewart grew up in the Big Horn Mountains,
always with his grandfather, always close to the land. T
BY HEATHER CHAPLIN
I met Daniel Levine when I was working at my first real post-college job. I
was an editorial assistant at a Bay Area business paper, and while I have
since learned to kiss the very ground that working environment was built
on, at the time I was shocked and appalled by the horro
Starting Out: Average starting salaries for this year's college graduates:
Bachelor's Degree Salary:
Chemical engineering $43,762
Electrical engineering $40,397
Computer engineering $39,583
Computer science $38,475
Management information systems $35,925
Accounting $31,505
Business $29,784
Libera
>"What did you do during the war, daddy?"
>"I went to graduate school, my son."
>
>There are two ways to look at the 1A selective service classification. You
>could view 1A as the point of the whole exercise and you'd be wrong. Or you
>could view 1A as an admission of failure to comply with the in
A couple of months ago my friend the economics professor Michael Perelman
referred me to a very important book on the Blackfoot and the whiskey trade
in the 19th century. What it revealed is that whiskey was introduced by fur
trading companies in exactly the same way that opium was introduced by t
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Albert V. Krebs wrote:
> The
> AGRIBUSINESS
> EXAMINER Issue #4 September 24, 1998
>
> Montioring Corporate Agribusiness From A Public Interest Perspective
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> A.V. Krebs
> Edit
At 23:00 24/09/98 -0700, you wrote:
>michael perelman wrote,
>
>>A couple of days ago NPR had a story about Native Americans being poor
>>employees because their family obligations are too strong. They are too
>>prone to take time off to help a friend or family member in need.
Yup. Key lines
"and it's one, two, three, what are we fightin' for?
don't know and ah don't give a damn, next stop is viet nam"
what good is poetics?
Back in Davis in 1966 I took a course called Rhetoric. Thought it would be
something like public speaking. The national debate topic that year was
something like
Utterly disgraceful, isn't it!! Imagine---people actually having a stronger
sense of community and humanity and devotion to family than of avarice,
narrow self-interest, and the capitalist work ethos.
My vision of socialism is a system where all work is valued but family and
community come first
Regrading Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: (etc.)
Max's note on the political implication of relative incomes are important.
Missing from our chat, though, are the kinds of real vulnerabilites (and on
the upside, potentials) that accompany (or not!) various levels of income
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In a message dated 9/24/98 3:03:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
><< everyone else gets a smidgen richer, then, yes, most people
> would feel poorer. Even Adam Smith agreed.
> >>
>
> but it isn't 'everyone' else. it's only 1 out of 1
Friends,
I agree completely with Tom. I have been working for 30 years and the
employer expects more work now than when I began. I get so pissed off
at all of the deals being made, the hypocrisy, the lack of respect for
good work that i literally drive myself crazy, into such a depressed
state
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