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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Monday, 4 February 2013 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)45. No Austerity Has Helped Any Economy
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14311-no-austerity-has-helped-the-economy
...All your money are belong to us the song of the predator class
...Very Serious People only listen to each other. In other words, the poor darlings are just deluded, bubbled, sealed from understanding...Those whom he (KRUGMAN) calls Very Serious People, I call Our Betters. This difference in language (between his and mine) is indicative of the difference in analysis between Krugman and people like me. The language Very Serious People speaks to their role as pundits, opinion-generators and insider-echoists. Our Betters speaks about their power role the role these people play in running our lives (at the Obama and Robert Rubin level) or in serving those who run our lives (at the David Gregory and Joe Scarborough level).
In other words, its certainly true that the baronial class and its servants and administrators listen only to each other, and thus reinforce in each other the comforting cover story that theyre only doing whats in our ultimate good.
But the baronial class is also the predator class and they know precisely where the benefit (for them) always lies. This is the predator class in operation:
The Predator Class in action. If you added the Top .001% to this chart, it would have to be taller than you are.
If you added the Top .1%, the Top .01% and the Top .001% to that chart, youd need a chart as tall as your room.
What the chart calls the Highest Fifth includes what I call the retainers administrators, enablers (thats you, CNN producers) and professionals needed to keep the system working. Everyone else is workers, and look what their hard work got them.
All of the gains of worker productivity (the harder smarter computer-enabled work of the lowest four-fifths) have gone into the pockets of the highest fifth and especially the very top earners. Note that these are individual incomes, not corporate incomes; as Ive argued elsewhere, the corporation is just the collection device, the force extender, for the CEO class that wholly controls it; shareholder-ownership is the comforting cover story.
This is what James Galbraith calls the predatory state and he means that economically. The predatory state is a state that enables and is controlled by economic predators, extremely wealthy vampires who feed on their fellow citizens. Galbraith (my emphasis):
...Its that predatory feeding that produces policies, promises and pronouncements like these that Krugman describes:
..My advice dare to be bold, progressives. This game has a fourth quarter, and were in it. At some point, the predator will destroy all the prey and then die. Justice for the beast perhaps, but no fun for the already dead.
SO MUCH MORE...A MUST READ!
...All your money are belong to us the song of the predator class
...Very Serious People only listen to each other. In other words, the poor darlings are just deluded, bubbled, sealed from understanding...Those whom he (KRUGMAN) calls Very Serious People, I call Our Betters. This difference in language (between his and mine) is indicative of the difference in analysis between Krugman and people like me. The language Very Serious People speaks to their role as pundits, opinion-generators and insider-echoists. Our Betters speaks about their power role the role these people play in running our lives (at the Obama and Robert Rubin level) or in serving those who run our lives (at the David Gregory and Joe Scarborough level).
In other words, its certainly true that the baronial class and its servants and administrators listen only to each other, and thus reinforce in each other the comforting cover story that theyre only doing whats in our ultimate good.
But the baronial class is also the predator class and they know precisely where the benefit (for them) always lies. This is the predator class in operation:
The Predator Class in action. If you added the Top .001% to this chart, it would have to be taller than you are.
If you added the Top .1%, the Top .01% and the Top .001% to that chart, youd need a chart as tall as your room.
What the chart calls the Highest Fifth includes what I call the retainers administrators, enablers (thats you, CNN producers) and professionals needed to keep the system working. Everyone else is workers, and look what their hard work got them.
All of the gains of worker productivity (the harder smarter computer-enabled work of the lowest four-fifths) have gone into the pockets of the highest fifth and especially the very top earners. Note that these are individual incomes, not corporate incomes; as Ive argued elsewhere, the corporation is just the collection device, the force extender, for the CEO class that wholly controls it; shareholder-ownership is the comforting cover story.
This is what James Galbraith calls the predatory state and he means that economically. The predatory state is a state that enables and is controlled by economic predators, extremely wealthy vampires who feed on their fellow citizens. Galbraith (my emphasis):
That the looming debt and deficit crisis is fake is something that, by now, even the most dim member of Congress must know. The combination of hysterical rhetoric, small armies of lobbyists and pundits, and the proliferation of billionaire-backed front groups with names like the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is not a novelty in Washington. It happens whenever Big Money wants something badly enough.
...Its that predatory feeding that produces policies, promises and pronouncements like these that Krugman describes:
Not only have we been ruled by fear of nonexistent threats, weve been promised rewards that havent arrived and never will.
..My advice dare to be bold, progressives. This game has a fourth quarter, and were in it. At some point, the predator will destroy all the prey and then die. Justice for the beast perhaps, but no fun for the already dead.
SO MUCH MORE...A MUST READ!
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