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anne4444 03/04/2011 06:20 PM Report
If one man loves you, you may be his spouse.
If several men love you, you are attractive.
If hundreds of men love you, you are a celebrity.
If thousands of men love you, you are a hero.
If millions of men love you, you are a leader.
If all men love you, you are... $ bills.
Wow... Money overpowers the leadership.
REMant 03/03/2011 11:31 AM Report
But there are a lot of university employees who do little or nothing at all, and have always accepted less money for the privilege and the environment, or at least they did until the govt started pouring money into colleges. There's no getting around the fact that AFSCME and the teachers are the main support these days, not only for unionism, but the whole Keynesian project, not to mention the Democratic Party, and it is not just an issue about tyrannical owners, who are in most cases ourselves. Like Fannie and Freddie they've been a pump for a socialism little better than the company store. The real irony in this is that cost-push is the only kind of inflation Keynesians recognize. But how is he going to write intelligently about this if he still doesn't realize that it's the Keynesians, not the bankers, who were to blame for this "recession," both in Congress and the executive, but most especially in the Fed. We can't go back to the old way of doing things, as he implies, even if it were possible - and believe me Bernanke, Yellen and Co are trying - because it won't pay the bills. The only possibilities are inflation or continued economic contraction. Keynesians are concerned only about employment, much like the progressive educators are concerned about self-esteem. On that subject, the teachers are a cadre for education in the party line, and with the power to give grades and references, they control people's lives. That is presumably why the right-wing is so hot about this issue. Even so, few would likely squawk if it had not in fact gotten totally out of control, particularly with respect to pensions, something the private sector has had to face up to just as much.