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as originating on the other side of the looking glass, since whatever they say they'll do has an opposite effect on this side.
I just wonder how long people are going to fall for the plutocrats' line that if they keep doing exactly the wrong thing long enough, everybody will miraculously become prosperous. It's enought to make you want to force-feed Howard Zinn to all Americans, starting in about the fourth grade.
Bush's SOU address tonight (which I will miss, since my foot would be through the TV screen should I try to watch) will reportedly tell us now that the rich have been fattened sufficiently, they will concentrate on jobs.
Look out below! That means the pace of job destruction and job exportation is likely to increase, just as his proposed easing of immigration rules will give us lots of people willing to take the jobs that used to pay $8/hr for minimum wage.
Of course, all these are "unintended consequences of sound programs." We'll just have to wait and see how they blame their whole rotten mess on Clinton.
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