Paul:
However, white collar (non-productive) workers
are a fixed cost. Squeezing their wages reduces
fixed cost and hence can improve profits.
Being an ex-whitecollar worker, I am not so sure about
this Paul.
As a saying goes in the business world, no body is
indispensable.
At least, this
Rise of a ruling-class family
How generations of high finance and Ivy League breeding led to a
presidency handed from father to son. An excerpt from American Dynasty.
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By Kevin Phillips
Jan. 27, 2004 | Concern about a U.S. dynastic presidency first emerged
in 2000,
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Subject: Re: Howard Dean, Nader, Chomsky and Stalin
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:50:47 -0600
From: Saul Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did you notice that Alterman brings up Stalin three times on that blog
page? We get the Nader, Dean, Chomsky and
The Alterboy is very strange. Sticking together a
centrist Democratic governor and Prez candidate, a
disaffected populist pro-market but anticorporate
consumer advocate and protest politician, an
anarchist linguistics scholar abnd radical foreign
policy analyst with a multi-decade passionate
my impression is that Kerry voted against the Gulf War but not
Dubya's splendid little war because on the latter he was scared to
go against a Prez made popular by 911. This is just one sign of the
Democratic Party's increasing cowardice.
Jim D.
I agree. Another sign of Democratic cowardice is the
Here is my letter to the editor from our relatively widely circulated
local (Western Mass.) newspaper Berkshire Eagle:
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/Stories/0,1413,101~6268~1917246,00.html
Ahmet
...and get a load of the health plans that they all broadcast today.
It's a joke.
Joanna
Dan Scanlan wrote:
my impression is that Kerry voted against the Gulf War but not
Dubya's splendid little war because on the latter he was scared to
go against a Prez made popular by 911. This is just one
Alexi Bonifield is a local Nevada county CA activist who has been
working on the Kucinich campign., This is her report on the Iowa
caucus.
DON'T ORDER THE FETTUCINE: Iowa Presidential Caucus 2004
I'm from California. Politics here ranges in spirit and
style from Kabuki to Spielberg. We
Sabri,
Of course, no individual is indispensable and employers can downsize and
increase the intensity of work for support staff or can, in many cases replace
white collar workers with capital (e.g. replacing telephone receptionists
with voice mail or touchtone routing) but the point that I
[Interesting to note in this context that Nigeria is
one of the few places in the developing world which has experienced
widespread labour shortages recently.]
that's because so many are employed sending us e-mails asking us to help them get
money out of the country...
;-)
Jim D
I wrote:
This means that profit booms are most likely
to be based on increased indebtedness.
Sabri writes:
This is how I see it, too. The profit rate increases
are not so much as a result of wage squeezes anymore.
That is a thing of the past. As Michael keeps saying,
and I agree, we are
(An extremely important article from the Feb. 2004 Harpers Magazine, which
unfortunately is not online. I scanned in the first couple of pages but
urge everybody to track it down and read the whole thing. It is the first
time I have seen an attempt to integrate an analysis of the agricultural
allAfrica.com: Mauritius: Mauritius Seeks to Become a Global Cyber Island
Paradise[Mauritius also used to have a GINI of zero, although I'm not sure
if it's doing that well now. Note as well the role of the Indian
government.]
Mauritius Seeks to Become a Global Cyber Island Paradise
The Australian: US slip exposes tank 'deal' [ 27jan04 ]
[This shows the extent to which Australian forces have become a US foreign
legion --- the Leopard 2 appears to be both better and more suited to
conditions in SE Asia and the SW Pacific than the M1.]
US slip exposes tank 'deal'
By John
and other
medical professionals must live within the province's means as the
government battles a $5.6-billion deficit.
The Strategic Counsel contacted 2,000 doctors for the survey that was
conducted for the OMA.
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040127.wphys0127/BNStory/National/
NOT YOUR AVERAGE LICENSE PLATE...
By Lisa Doerksen
Lethbridge Herald Friday, January 23, 2004
A Piikani reserve woman who believes she is not bound by Canadian law is
fighting for the right to drive in the province without registering her
vehicle.
Bella Yellowhorn has launched a
Yes, this article is a real _tour de force_. I highly, highly recommend it.
Lou is absolutely correct, the not-so-implicit message is that it's all been
downhill since the emergence of sedentary grain cultivation, but not only is
the science dead-on, there are useful nuggets of ecological
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From: John Gulick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, this article is a real _tour de force_.
LP said:
(An extremely important article from the Feb. 2004 Harpers Magazine,
which
unfortunately is not online. I scanned in the first couple of pages but
urge everybody to track it
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