Should I send my child to school? We never ask this question.
Considering the low pay most citizens receive, it is nearly impossible to get along on just one parent’s income, so the school system is simply the only thing to do with your child while you’re at work. And, anyway, everybody else does it. What’s [...]
I know my last blog post was definitively titled “The End of Capitalism… for Beginners,” and, in a summary effort, it included ideas I’ve been blogging about for years, but, alas, I find I am still not done blogging on the matter. Before I get back to blogging about kombucha, education and poison ivy, I [...]
The following is a reader comment I found on a New York Times column. It is so direct, heartfelt, and insightful, I felt I had to reproduce it here:
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nj
May 1st, 2010
1:50 pm
What I am hearing is green eyed jealousy and envy. Our economy stinks so people in the ‘private sector’ are encouraged to turn their [...]
There are a large number of US citizens, traditionally referred to as “Middle Americans,” who are engaged in small, private industry-jobs that have an uncertain future and that live and die on the prospects of a marketplace that is unhindered by taxes and government regulation. Even if they live in a rental unit, they live [...]
All through history, people have been living off things they stole from others. From the “great” Egyptian and Roman civilizations, that featured people living in splendor off the backs of slave labor, to the British Empire, that went around the world with its Navy and its weapons, subjugating and enslaving vulnerable indigenous people and looting [...]
Two news stories from last week made me feel as if I am living in Bizzaro-world:
1. According to this story in the Independent, which has few details, over 1500 of our fellow world citizens–Indian farmers–committed mass suicide recently in the war-torn and severely impoverished Indian state of Chhattisgarh. For 12 years, farmers have been committing [...]
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Motormanmark.com brings yet another scoop for the blogosphere:
4.1.09: At this morning’s convention of the USA Youth Council, meeting at the Marriot Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a vast majority of members voted to officially notify the world’s investors “…in [...]
A guy I know–we’ll call him Fred–told me yesterday evening the economy seems to be turning. Of course, I thought he was considering himself informed by Monday’s stock market rise, but, no, for Fred it all seemed to come down to Fed Chair, Ben Bernanke’s recent claim that things would improve by the end of [...]
by Motormanmark.com
I haven’t read New York Times’ Iraq-War-cheerleading columnist, David Brooks’ recent piece, but, hurrying out the door, I did see the opening sentences, which included his oft-crooned notion that we Americans got where we are because we are such hard workers. I ran across this saccharine sentiment on the job here with a jackass [...]
The financial term, “depression” originated as a gentle way to label the economic decline that we call the Great Depression as it began, in the same way now we might hear a commentator refer to a “downturn,” let’s say.
So, what will we call it if we are headed towards the same or worse financial disaster [...]
Motormanmark.com’s guest blogger for this month is NYTimes columnist, David T Brooks:
A Recovery War by David T Brooks
The challenge we are facing is far greater than suspected by even many of those who think about the economy for a living.
Last week, Paul Krugmann and I were conferencing with Roy G. Biv, our stalwart editor, and [...]
I am currently going through some problems with my job that make me feel unloved. Can you relate? I ask, very sincerely, why? Why must we all be attached to jobs that fail to reward us emotionally, but which seek our emotional sweat equity?
Couldn’t there be a job out there that threatens me not [...]
Another scoop for the blogosphere! Here, Motormanmark.com presents a web exclusive: what is alleged to be the first draft of President-Elect Barack Obama’s planned inaugural address, to be delivered at the White House on January 20, 2009. This document was secretly appropriated from the office of Roy G. Biv, Chairman for the Obama Transition Team.
Fellow [...]
By Mark Crane Motormanmark.com
CLICK HERE to see my latest blog on the economy.
In 1980, voters elected a Republican president, Ronald Reagan, who began “deregulating” everything, which means he just stopped government from watching out for bad things private citizens and companies do—or just defunding government agencies so much that they don’t have [...]
