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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 02:57 PM Original message |
Thomas Friedman: The New Untouchables ("You're just not that GREAT! You have to be SUPERworkers!") |
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tonysam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
1. Friedman is another idiot |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
2. Propaganda: You're not worthy of more money for your work |
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MindPilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
3. The seventies called; they want their paradigm back. |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-22-09 11:23 AM Response to Reply #3 |
50. Man, does this sound familiar! |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
4. "that there are DUers who are inevitably going to agree with him" |
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MindPilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:32 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. That wave is over for the most part. |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:41 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. I am one of those that you describe. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 04:17 PM Response to Reply #4 |
28. Who made "the market" into a god? |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 09:32 PM Response to Reply #28 |
43. The Swindlers and the Most Ruthless. |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-22-09 11:18 AM Response to Reply #4 |
48. I'd sort of believe that if people with master's degrees weren't getting laid off. |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:19 PM Response to Original message |
5. They just need a place where everyone is above average. |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:19 PM Response to Original message |
6. Luckily for Tom, peresonal contacts can't be computerized. |
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bullwinkle428 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
7. Anyone listen to NPR's report on airline maintenance yesterday? |
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theHandpuppet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-22-09 11:40 AM Response to Reply #7 |
54. The same kind of thing happened in the shipbuilding & repair industry |
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mrsadm (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
8. Friedman has ALWAYS been a a**hole - he has no knowledge of reality |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:42 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. his fat wallet requires such "ignorance". |
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tonysam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 06:55 PM Response to Reply #8 |
41. This gigolo married into a billionaire family, |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:25 PM Response to Original message |
9. His argument isn't that we don't work hard enough. |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:43 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. ...And how do we get there from here? What does that society look like... |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:48 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. I have no idea how he plans to get us there, and suspect he doesn't know either. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:44 PM Response to Reply #9 |
17. argument assumes we're in competition--but we're not. it's the same corporations |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:53 PM Response to Reply #9 |
21. Isn't very hard to get someone to work harder and cheaper than we do when their last job was ... |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:57 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. That is true, and that observation is about 90% of everything he's written in the last decade. |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:57 PM Response to Reply #9 |
23. Well, that's kind of hard to do when you have a nation that MUST be at war all the time. |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 04:29 PM Response to Reply #23 |
30. Yes, and we are competing against mercantilist nations that will stop at nothing |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 05:15 PM Response to Reply #9 |
34. Increasing creativity? |
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Democracyinkind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
10. The world is still round, some minds still flat. |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
12. Considering my kid was forced to read his FLAT book for a Social Studies AP class |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 04:05 PM Response to Reply #12 |
25. Your kid had to read that tripe as a course textbook? |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 04:28 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. yup. |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 06:11 PM Response to Reply #29 |
37. I don't even know what to say. |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 10:09 PM Response to Reply #37 |
44. oh I made sure to become the thorn in the ass of both the teacher AND the |
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Nickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 04:40 PM Response to Reply #25 |
32. It's being used as a course supplement in my MBA class. Last night I almost threw the book at one of |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 06:12 PM Response to Reply #32 |
38. That doesn't surprise me so much. |
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pscot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
13. Blame the victim |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
18. Amazing that a man so ugly can be such a successful whore |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
20. The Free Traders always start crowing about Education when a |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
24. Everyone can't be an innovator. |
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KG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
26. this from a guy that's never done a days work in his life. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
27. This is the logic implicit in globalism. Most establishment Dems would agree with Friedman. nt |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 04:34 PM Response to Original message |
31. He does have a minor point |
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Feron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 05:08 PM Response to Original message |
33. Superworker unless you are a CEO ..... |
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salin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 07:00 PM Response to Reply #33 |
42. post title +1 |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-22-09 11:27 AM Response to Reply #33 |
51. Perhaps you really meant to say... |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
35. Friedman's never worked a day in his life. |
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brentspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
36. Oh, I see. It wasn't corporate greed/offshoring that killed the jobs |
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suegeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 06:52 PM Response to Original message |
39. I'd like training on how to toss a pie in someone's face. N/T |
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Thickasabrick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
40. +100 For your comments !! Outstanding and I totally agree. nt |
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midnight armadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-21-09 10:37 PM Response to Original message |
45. In friedman's world everyone is above average! |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-22-09 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
46. It's Animal Farm, and we are all Horse ... nt |
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n2doc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-22-09 11:18 AM Response to Original message |
47. Tom the 'stache, I need another 6 months to become a superworker! |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-22-09 11:19 AM Response to Reply #47 |
49. I think having the shoebrush mustache and a ton of connections helps a little. |
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tonysam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-22-09 11:29 AM Response to Reply #49 |
52. Friedman is a gigolo |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-22-09 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
53. Eff him, Mr. "Just six more months in Iraq, that's the window, we'll turn the corner." |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-22-09 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
55. I'm so sick of big business stomping over the little guy. |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-22-09 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
56. "U.N.: U.S. workers are world’s most productive" |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-22-09 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
57. Each of his new themes just vindicates my long-standing dislike |
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