Comments on: Early Morning Swim: Special Senate Republicans Cut Off Our Face To Spite The Union Edition http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/early-morning-swim-special-senate-republicans-cut-off-our-face-to-spite-the-union-edition/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 07:53:53 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: acquarius74 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/early-morning-swim-special-senate-republicans-cut-off-our-face-to-spite-the-union-edition/#comment-1756870 acquarius74 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:07:10 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/early-morning-swim-special-senate-republicans-cut-off-our-face-to-spite-the-union-edition/#comment-1756870 <p>I opened the DIGG and left a comment there. Come on, pups, Blue Texan makes our searching easy for us every day. How about showing our support??</p> I opened the DIGG and left a comment there. Come on, pups, Blue Texan makes our searching easy for us every day. How about showing our support??

]]> By: acquarius74 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/early-morning-swim-special-senate-republicans-cut-off-our-face-to-spite-the-union-edition/#comment-1756852 acquarius74 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:54:17 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/early-morning-swim-special-senate-republicans-cut-off-our-face-to-spite-the-union-edition/#comment-1756852 <p>Maybe Ken Burns should do a documentary on Busting the Unions (or has he done so and I missed it?)</p> Maybe Ken Burns should do a documentary on Busting the Unions (or has he done so and I missed it?)

]]> By: acquarius74 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/early-morning-swim-special-senate-republicans-cut-off-our-face-to-spite-the-union-edition/#comment-1756848 acquarius74 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:52:06 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/early-morning-swim-special-senate-republicans-cut-off-our-face-to-spite-the-union-edition/#comment-1756848 <p>Just remembered, wasn’t Utah Phillips on Amy Goodman a couple months ago?</p> Just remembered, wasn’t Utah Phillips on Amy Goodman a couple months ago?

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/early-morning-swim-special-senate-republicans-cut-off-our-face-to-spite-the-union-edition/#comment-1756788 SouthernDragon Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:13:33 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/early-morning-swim-special-senate-republicans-cut-off-our-face-to-spite-the-union-edition/#comment-1756788 <p>Annie DeFranco and others. Usually gotta have access to a community radio station to hear them, however. We’re gonna miss Utah Phillips. Not many icons have his charisma. We need good storytellers.</p> Annie DeFranco and others. Usually gotta have access to a community radio station to hear them, however. We’re gonna miss Utah Phillips. Not many icons have his charisma. We need good storytellers.

]]> By: acquarius74 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/early-morning-swim-special-senate-republicans-cut-off-our-face-to-spite-the-union-edition/#comment-1756757 acquarius74 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:53:16 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/early-morning-swim-special-senate-republicans-cut-off-our-face-to-spite-the-union-edition/#comment-1756757 <p>Thanks for the link, SD. With each new manipulation by the Cult of The Stupid we move closer to the return of those scenes depicted in the photos at your link. I love old Pete Seeger. He suffered greatly for standing up for the human rights of workers. Do we have anyone today who can pick up his banner in the days ahead?</p> Thanks for the link, SD. With each new manipulation by the Cult of The Stupid we move closer to the return of those scenes depicted in the photos at your link. I love old Pete Seeger. He suffered greatly for standing up for the human rights of workers. Do we have anyone today who can pick up his banner in the days ahead?

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/early-morning-swim-special-senate-republicans-cut-off-our-face-to-spite-the-union-edition/#comment-1756696 SouthernDragon Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:00:19 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/early-morning-swim-special-senate-republicans-cut-off-our-face-to-spite-the-union-edition/#comment-1756696 <p>Well said.</p> Well said.

]]> By: Bilbo http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/early-morning-swim-special-senate-republicans-cut-off-our-face-to-spite-the-union-edition/#comment-1756695 Bilbo Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:59:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/early-morning-swim-special-senate-republicans-cut-off-our-face-to-spite-the-union-edition/#comment-1756695 <p>Amen. Well said.</p> Amen. Well said.

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/early-morning-swim-special-senate-republicans-cut-off-our-face-to-spite-the-union-edition/#comment-1756693 SouthernDragon Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:59:07 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/early-morning-swim-special-senate-republicans-cut-off-our-face-to-spite-the-union-edition/#comment-1756693 <p>Agreed. If we had a state controlled economy and manufacturing base where would the incentive to create new products come from? Without a profit motive why bother I think would be the predominant attitude. People don’t want to work just in order to subsist. Once the electronic genie was let out of the bottle there’s no stuffing it back in.</p> Agreed. If we had a state controlled economy and manufacturing base where would the incentive to create new products come from? Without a profit motive why bother I think would be the predominant attitude. People don’t want to work just in order to subsist. Once the electronic genie was let out of the bottle there’s no stuffing it back in.

]]> By: Crosstimbers http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/early-morning-swim-special-senate-republicans-cut-off-our-face-to-spite-the-union-edition/#comment-1756689 Crosstimbers Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:56:48 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/early-morning-swim-special-senate-republicans-cut-off-our-face-to-spite-the-union-edition/#comment-1756689 <p>Frankly, the ideologues of one line philosopy/religion or another, who insist of forcing manking into the square holes of their abstract construction, have caused most of the bloodshed, starvation, and inhumanity which mankind has indured. Marx believed his system would occur inevitably. If it does it does. But constant proselytizing for it is a tiresome as the free market capitalist ranting, the fundamentalist Muslim or Christian spiels, or any other dogmatic theories. People can’t even make these doctrinaire ideas work in their own lives, and they want to insist on them for all mankind.</p> Frankly, the ideologues of one line philosopy/religion or another, who insist of forcing manking into the square holes of their abstract construction, have caused most of the bloodshed, starvation, and inhumanity which mankind has indured. Marx believed his system would occur inevitably. If it does it does. But constant proselytizing for it is a tiresome as the free market capitalist ranting, the fundamentalist Muslim or Christian spiels, or any other dogmatic theories. People can’t even make these doctrinaire ideas work in their own lives, and they want to insist on them for all mankind.

]]> By: Bilbo http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/early-morning-swim-special-senate-republicans-cut-off-our-face-to-spite-the-union-edition/#comment-1756687 Bilbo Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:52:56 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/early-morning-swim-special-senate-republicans-cut-off-our-face-to-spite-the-union-edition/#comment-1756687 <blockquote><p>COmmunism has not been properly tried.</p></blockquote> <p>One could make the same argument about Capitalism (not that I’d be inclined to do so, but some would). In my view, it makes little sense to talk about the viability of a theoretical abstraction. The only thing that matters is “how it plays” in the real world once human frailties and tendencies have been factored in.</p>

COmmunism has not been properly tried.

One could make the same argument about Capitalism (not that I’d be inclined to do so, but some would). In my view, it makes little sense to talk about the viability of a theoretical abstraction. The only thing that matters is “how it plays” in the real world once human frailties and tendencies have been factored in.

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