Comments on: Trumka Takes on the ‘Neoliberalism’ that Broke U.S. Economy

By: jenn976

jenn976 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:03:32 +0000

This Trumpka thing is a Good Start. We, the union members and all workers, are the other side across the aisle from the corporatists. Corporation have been allowed to usurp our rights since the 1880s. We must take the “personage” out of corporate hands so that they can’t use the 14th, 15th, and 16th amendments for defense against us.

By: veracity

veracity — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:45:44 +0000

“Liberals” NEED TO GET ON THE SAME PAGE, and POUND AWAY at this!
This is NOT ROCKET SCIENCE…. “Neo-Liberalism” is CORPORATE COMMUNISM plain and simple!
(Dylan Ratigan of MSNBC is the first person I’ve heard to use that term.)
As (former Republican) Kevin Phillips explained in his landmark book, “Wealth & Democracy in America” ALL great American fortunes have been AMASSED in CLOSE COOPERATION _WITH_ the government.
for the simple reason that if you DON’T have government allies, your COMPETITORS will soon get the jump on you – THEY will use the government, the courts, the sheriff, to take YOUR profitable land, business, customers, etc.
You know – they way that ROCKEFELLER, CARNAGIE, FRICK and others ground their competitors under heel.
Today, using the economic crisis of 2008, and their HIJACKING Of the clueless (and greedily ambitious) Barack Obama, the Goldman-Sachs/Citi/JPM Chase Neo-Cons have put the above “big business monopolies, IN LEAGUE WITH GOVERNMENT” autocracy ON STEROIDS, INTO HYPERDRIVE not seen since the US government tolerated, supported, and encouraged SLAVERY.
The Golddamn-Sachs Neo-Cons have gotten President O and the “Democrat” Congress to hand over some portion of TWENTY+ TRILLION taxpayer-extorted DOLLARS – http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aY0tX8UysIaM – that’s nearly 2x the ENTIRE annual US GDP! – to GS,JPM-Chase, Citi, and other big NY & Wall St banks, without providing us chumps a DIME’s WORTH of accounting or oversight… while, mind you, the same characters OUTSOURCE ENTIRE US INDUSTRIES TO CHINA, AND EXPAND costly US wars of imperialism overseas!!
Today’s “BLACKWATER” mercenaries are merely yesterday’s SLAVE TRADERS, and Injun “bounty hunters” (hired killers)!!
This isn’t rocket science: Classic “Neo-Liberalism” as GOLDMAN SACHS has put it on steroids, is the DIRECT TRANSFER to a select kleptocracy (robber barons), of the wealth of ALL the non-connected taxpayers in America.
see MaxKeiser.com, especially his rants on “FINANCIAL TERRORISTS”

By: laborite57

laborite57 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:25:57 +0000

Trumka faces a difficult, if not impossible dilemma.

Elements of the Democratic Party have embraced Friedmanomics and abandoned any common cause with organized labor, or with working people in general. But open warfare with these elements within the Democratic Party risks a return to Gingrich-Bush dominance of the government.

By: Adam503

Adam503 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:29:27 +0000

I like Trumka but he apparently didn’t get the memo about word choices. They matter.

I’d venture to guess the majority of people hearing these remarks of Trumpka’s think he’s attacking liberals.

By: fflambeau

fflambeau — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:47:34 +0000

Trumpka impresses me as being really bright. He can explain complex issues easily. He’s a good speaker. He’d make a great politician and he’s got a nice twinkle in his eyes and smile on his face that shows he’s not the cold man Obama is. W’s nickname for Obama: the Pope. Maybe W wasn’t as dumb as he’s been made out to be.

By: Maddy

Maddy — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:32:40 +0000

It is all so sad to see this country eaten by the fat pigs with no care for such magnificence. The way to live is with a soft footprint, the Native American culture had it just about right, in fact our constitution is somewhat based on the 6 nations of the Iroquois confederacy. These men today have not a care for these kinds of things. But that is the nature of people such as those with the gold. They never realize or seem to care for the fact that all is connected and they are shitting in their own beds.

By: JugOPunch

JugOPunch — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:15:44 +0000

Keep it up. Thank you.

By: sporkovat

sporkovat — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:54:43 +0000

the choice is between having pride at not being conned, and having to wriggle with your cognitive dissonance, trying to justify wasting your vote for a political party that does nothing but take you for granted and exploit you mercilessly and brazenly betray its bi-annual campaign rhetoric.

so, yeah, not much of a choice at all.

going the “I told you so” route is kind of bad form, and I don’t think Hugh voted for Obama, but c;mon folks, (by whom I mean all the firepups who close their minds to such Forbidden Thoughts anyway) the “no one could have predicted Obama would be this bad” line just doesn’t wash.

time to listen to folks who were right about Single Payer, right about Obama, right about antiwar capitulation to the ludicrous campaign of John Kerry, right about Joe effing Lieberman when he was #2 on the Donkey ticket, right about the stolen elections, etc, etc.

and there is a fair consensus that Labor is wasting its time trying to counsel the Donkey Party to appear to care more for working people.

By: TalkingStick

TalkingStick — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:25:56 +0000

I take the information in this and your first post very seriously. I pray no violence but I have no doubt the military could well be turned against the people. We had a taste of it in Katrina. I never thought I would live to see dead left in the streets or the conditions in the Dome. And if you recall the Bush people tried to first claim the victims were out of control rioters and looters.

By: TalkingStick

TalkingStick — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:21:40 +0000

Planing to tattoo this exchange on my ass, or at least print it on a t-shirt.

I actually saw that live and have the tattoo on my brain. Having enabled the destruction of our economy and so many dreams he was so casual. Like Oops. I dropped my fork.