Has anyone ever done a study on the actual returns cities and states have seen on these corporate subsidies?
TroyEubulides [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[New York Times]November 10, 2003When Subsidies to Lure Business Don't Pan OutBy LOUIS UCHITELLEINDIANAPOLIS - A huge, light-gray building, trimmed
Julio Huato wrote:
A friend of mine says this is an obituary published in The Times-Picayune,
New Orleans on 10/2/2003:
Word has been received that Gertrude M. Jones, 81, passed away on August
25, 2003, under the loving care of the nursing aides of Heritage Manor of
Mandeville, Louisiana. She was
At 8:21 AM -0500 11/12/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
Julio Huato wrote:
A friend of mine says this is an obituary published in The
Times-Picayune, New Orleans on 10/2/2003:
Word has been received that Gertrude M. Jones, 81, passed away on
August 25, 2003, under the loving care of the nursing aides of
At 2:31 PM -0800 11/11/03, Michael Perelman wrote:
Marx believed that consumerism could serve a progressive purpose --
he even thought that newpapers would elevate workers. He never read
our own local rag.
Marx certainly overestimated the progressive nature of consumerism,
but that does not seem
Thanks, Yoshie. I need new underwear. (N. B. two sentences.)
Gene Coyle
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
At 2:31 PM -0800
11/11/03, Michael Perelman wrote:
Marx believed that consumerism could serve a
progressive purpose --
he even thought that newpapers would elevate workers. He never read
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From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You also have to keep in mind that there was no such thing as advertising,
department stores and mass communications in Marx's age. Sometimes I have
to catch my breath when I look around me at all the advertising in NYC.
Subways, buses, TV shows, radio,
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
November 12, 2003, Wednesday
Democrats boxed in politically by situation in Iraq
BYLINE: By Steven Thomma
WASHINGTON _ Despite persistent complaints about President Bush's policy
in Iraq, few leading Democrats want to bring the GIs home anytime soon.
The
ever wonder about the etymology of the word "ad"?
it's the new, new math. . ."adds" multiply, dividing our consciousness, subtracting our will. . .
we need a better ruler. . .how about us?
Brian McKenna
I did not read it that way at all. He is describing a world of sleeze --
sleezy US administrators and sleezy collaborators. I don't think that
Duke is supposed to represent the average US citizen.
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:26:26AM -0500, Louis Proyect wrote:
In 1968 Garry Trudeau launched a
US Attorney General John Ashcroft is visiting an elementary school.
After 15 minutes of speaking he says, I will now answer any questions you
have.
Bobby stands up and says, I have four questions.
1. How did Bush win the election with fewer votes than Gore?
2. Why haven't you caught Osama bin
u.s. supreme court did not hold advertising ('commercial speech') to
have first amendment protection until 1970s, court has given good deal
of attention to matter since then, rulings have indicated that such
speech is entitled to less protection than political speech, unlikely
that court
Michael Perelman wrote:
I did not read it that way at all. He is describing a world of sleeze --
sleezy US administrators and sleezy collaborators. I don't think that
Duke is supposed to represent the average US citizen.
The New York Times
June 1, 2003, Sunday, Late Edition - Final
Nov. 12, 2003
Even though both houses of Congress responded to your appeals by
voting to block President Bush's overtime pay cuts, the
president is refusing to withdraw his pay cuts and says he will
veto final legislation protecting overtime pay. Back-room
maneuvering by the Bush administration
With a more competitive export dollar, refinancing the home and middleclass
consumer spending, less concern is focused on in the USA on the economy now,
and more concern is focused on the war against Iraq and its broader
implications. Which suggests the American anti-war movement should keep
KADEK claims that they did this to open the way to a new
formation that would be more suitable to the democratic
ecologic system. They also claim that they wanted to open the
way to a more inclusive, democratic and participatory formation
that goes beyond the Leninist party characteristics.
Sabri
In a message dated 11/12/03 5:21:47 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Funeral services were held in Louisville, KY.Memorial gifts may be made to any organization that seeks the removal ofPresident George Bush from office."You'd better be careful with this sort of thing,
whoops! You have me there.
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:30:00PM -0500, Louis Proyect wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote:
I did not read it that way at all. He is describing a world of sleeze --
sleezy US administrators and sleezy collaborators. I don't think that
Duke is supposed to represent
- Original Message -
From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 11:02 AM
Subject: FW: an Ashcroft joke
US Attorney General John Ashcroft is visiting an elementary school.
After 15 minutes of speaking he says, I will now answer any
I meant to forward Ashcroft joke to someone and sent it back by mistake.
While I am here I will enclose an interesting quote about famous Niemoller
quote
Everbody loves to quote Martin Niemöller's lines about moral failure in the
face of the Holocaust: 'First they came for the Communists, but I
right. However, someday we may have a social-democratic government (which is better
than nothing). One thing they should do is impose a tax on advertising. I think it
would be popular.
Jim
-Original Message-
From: Carrol Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed
Sleepless in the White House
One night, George W. Bush is tossing restlessly in his White House bed. He
awakens to see George Washington standing by him. Bush asks him, "George,
what's the best thing I can do to help the country?"
"Set an honest and honorable example, just as I did," Washington
According to the Gallup poll of Baghdad, a large percentage of
respondents (men and women) favor a return to more traditional
female roles, and reject the relative secularism and egalitarianism
of the Ba'ath years.
I interviewed the director of this poll on my radio show last week;
you can listen
In 1968 Garry Trudeau launched a comic strip called Doonesbury while a
student at Yale. It was strongly antiwar. As he has moved up
professionally in the media world, he has shifted to the right.
Surprise-surprise. You can read his garbage on slate.com. Over the past
couple of days, he has been
- Original Message -
From: Jurriaan Bendien
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:28 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Karl Marx on the role of public debt and taxation in
primitive accumulation - an insufficiently noticed passage
|the lack of a
| cogent and coherent theory and analysis, and
- Original Message -
From: Sara Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stop Miami Parade and Demo Ordinance --Protect Free Speech During FTAA
Ministerial!
This Thursday, November 13, the Miami City Commission will vote on an
ordinance to change current regulations that govern parades,
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
Senate approves tanker leasing deal with Boeing
By MATTHEW DALY
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- Ending a two-year battle, the Senate gave final approval Wednesday to a
controversial plan for the Air Force to acquire 100 Boeing 767 planes for use as midair
Hi Brian,
One answer to your question is the comics page (see below). Let the sun
shine!
Seth Sandronsky
AARON MCGRUDER'S RIGHT TO BE HOSTILE
Michael Moore, The Nation
The only serious discussion of race in the newspapers these days can be
found in a cartoon strip -- Boondocks.
How do we think in the present context, of the system of national debts,
the modern system of taxation, and the international credit system,
which often conceals one of the sources of primitive accumulation in this
or that people.
I have a lot of ideas about it, I thought about it for a long
http://www.feer.com
STOCKMARKETS
China's Next Big Challenge
With its banking system mired in bad debt, small and mid-sized companies
in China need a new and reliable source of cheap funds if the economy is
to continue its breakneck expansion. Efficient capital markets are the
obvious solution,
Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed
Trial for huge kickbacks by publicly owned firm reveals years of
corruption at top of French state
Jon Henley in Paris
Thursday November 13, 2003
The Guardian
France's mammoth Elf corruption case, probably the biggest
I wrote a fairly substantial paper on the role of public finance in primitive
accumulation with respect to Canada and the finance of the First World War.
First, Marx is quite explicit on the role of war finance in spurring primitive
accumulation via debt finance and subsequent non-progressive
- Original Message -
From: paul phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I wrote a fairly substantial paper on the role of public finance in
primitive accumulation with respect to Canada and the finance of the
First World War. First, Marx is quite explicit on the role of war
finance in spurring
That is pretty amazing. I supposein America
ithas to be sexy, yet civilised,and use the right words. In the USA,
I have noticed you always have to keep it verysimple, especiallyif
you are talking about anything bigger than an individual, because otherwise they
just do not understand it.
New York Press - November 12-18, 2003
Cage Match
Back at the Wheel
Thomas Friedman just loves to grind the gears.
[Matt Taibbi]
The New York Times' Tom Friedman has a thing about wheels. They recur
in his columns with chilling frequency. The tendency is so overt that
he often reads like a classic
Jurriaan,
Do you want me to e-mail you a copy? (as a Word Perfect attachment)
Paul
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
That is pretty amazing. I supposein America
ithas to be sexy, yet civilised,and use the right words. In the USA, I
have noticed you always have to keep it
I want to call comrades' attention to http://www.lefthook.org/ that was
launched officially yesterday. It was pretty much the brainchild of
Mohammad J. Alam, Derek Seidman and Adam Levenstein, 3 of Marxmail's
younger subscribers. The home page states:
Welcome to Left Hook, an online journal formed
Do you want me to e-mail you a copy? (as a Word Perfect
attachment)
Well, if you could, that would be very kind indeed,
I would read it with interest !
Jurriaan
I attended a lecture this evening at Portland State University by Michael
Dawson who spoke about his book "The Consumer Trap: Big Business Marketing in
American Life" (Univ. of Illinois Press). Michael has developed a very
powerful analysis of the political economy of mass marketing, based
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