Just wanted to point out again that Larry Summers advocated exporting Toxic Waste

[AllentownJake]

to the third world because it had economic benefits. I also want to point out again he is the Director of the White House Economic Council.

http://www.counterpunch.org/summers.html

[babylonsister]

1. Did you vote for the rethugs despite your protestations to the

contrary? You're on a tear there, Jake, to discredit anything and anyone connected to this admin.

Me, :boring:

Did you hear about the Senate health care bill tonight that was scored by the CBO? Great news, right? :thumbsup:

[Nikki Stone1]

4. Larry Summers has been on my shit list for years.

I was so disappointed when Obama picked him, and Geitner.

And FYI, I voted all Dem.

[AllentownJake]

5. Question

If John McCain was President and his head of economic policy advocated exporting our toxic waste to poorer nations because the agents that cause health problems in the waste was less likely to be noticed in a population that had a lower standard of living and a shorter life span, what would you post on DU?

[waiting for hope]

6. +1

Good luck on getting an answer to that one ...;)

[AllentownJake]

7. I'm not expecting one

Nor my next question about what if George W. Bush appointed an economic adviser who believed that Women were bad at math and thus made shitty Scientist.

[AllentownJake]

8. Bueller... Bueller.. anyone.. anyone

[leftstreet]

12. LOL

[waiting for hope]

2. Ha - figures. No moral compass at all I see -

1) The measurements of the costs of health impairing pollution depends on the foregone earnings from increased morbidity and mortality. From this point of view a given amount of health impairing pollution should be done in the country with the lowest cost, which will be the country with the lowest wages. I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that.

That portion of the memo says it all right there.

K&R

[dreamnightwind]

16. He really said that?

I read it but it was hard to believe, that's one of the most heartless, evil things I've ever seen.

Days of work lost to pollution-induced sickness and death * average wage in the region =
cost of said pollution. We can reduce the cost by moving the pollution to where poor people will be the ones missing work and dying. Never mind that he's talking about moving it to an entirely different country which likely had no part in producing that pollution.

This is one of the purest examples of what's wrong with our models of cost and productivity that I've seen.

That's a world view that's entirely unacceptable, and should be enough to send him back to the soul-less planet he came from. We have got to get rid of this guy.

I've watched him speak a couple of times, don't remember the venue, just on TV not in person, but I was blown away at what a total a-hole he is, I saw no redeeming human qualities in the man. Even so, I'm still shaken to read this quote. Holy shit!

How do we accelerate the Progressive Caucus's push to get rid of him?

[AllentownJake]

19. He didn't just say that

He put it in writing and distributed it as a memo.

[waiting for hope]

20. The fact that it was in a memo - and others

read it, accepted it and probably thought nothing about it is a prime example of how low those willing to walk over dead bodies for a buck will go - any questions now that Wall Street needs the hell regulated out of it?

[AllentownJake]

21. If you look at pictures of the pollution in China in 2009

Someone read that memo and implemented the idea.

[waiting for hope]

22. I think they did ..

[EFerrari]

3. Anyone who could be an ass to Cornel West can kiss my remote. n/t

[truedelphi]

9. Just wanna point out to you that Larry Summers

Is toxic waste, and I would love to see him exported.

[Nikki Stone1]

10. + 1

:D

[EFerrari]

11. + 2

:thumbsup:

[chill_wind]

13. Just want to point out to you that appointing Larry Summers

"would be like appointing the arsonist who burned down the city as the new fire commissioner. We like to tell our children that success is rewarded and that failure is punished."

Heh. Dean Baker said that November 7 2008. (Which might explain why he ended up no where near any part of the WH Economic Council Echo Chamber. Or not even on PERAB. Which is very much our loss..)

[AllentownJake]

14. Honestly DUers act surpised about policies

when you have him and his protege Timmeh in the room giving the President advice.

[Truth2Tell]

15. Why do you hate America? nt

[depakid]

17. One thing you have to say for Summers is that he's brilliant

and brilliantly gotten it wrong on call after call for over a decade now.

At some point one might ask, when will such brilliance recede?

[chill_wind]

18. kicked