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Not even close to getting it right, the New York Times tackles the grave social ill of the vast pool of out-of-work American men, seven million of ’em: Economists have long struggled to explain why a growing proportion of men in the prime of their lives are not employed or looking for work. A new […]
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It’s a Grave Social Ill: The phenomenon of “unworking men” in America, first developed by Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute over the Labor Day weekend. Millions of men, like me, undereducated, who won’t work and have dropped out of society. Economist Tyler Cowan jumped on it the following week, adding that it’s not […]
Dean Baker had a great line today in his continuing takedowns of the stupid-men-who-don’t-work meme peddled by the henchmen for the cause of raising rates so inflation doesn’t come and somewhat devalue the hoards of the riches crowd: But the rate hike crew decided the problem is that millions of men are no longer suited […]
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The Grave Social Ill of unemployed stupid white guys will, I predict, continue to gain in popularity. So, to refresh, from Nicholas Eberstadt’s Labor Day weekend piece at the WSJ: What do unworking men do with their free time? Sadly, not much that’s constructive. About a tenth are students trying to improve their circumstances. But […]
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From the New York Times, something obvious but germane to our Culture of Lickspittle: Why, then, are well over a million and a half Americans over 50, people with decades of life ahead of them, unable to find work? The underlying reason isn’t personal, it’s structural. It’s the result of a network of attitudes and […]
For the past couple of years I’ve posted on the corporate dictatotship’s great tradition — publishing anti-labor opinion oieces as good cheer on Labor Day. Despite inequality so high it menaces social cohesion nationwide and has brought on an election featuring the two most unpopular candidates in my lifetime, there’s never a shortage of white […]
Associated Press has published a bit of inside-look news on the business of Internet rigging. None of this is new to readers. But some of it is worth underlining because it is the Google-rigged American internet, and our corporations, that are the reason for it. The global network, developed here, is now a fertile ground […]
This is an excerpt explaining the southern sentiment, taken from Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story. Boogie Man shows how Atwater motivated the white vote through use of the Nixonian southern strategy of fear of the black man. It put the first Bush in the White House, later providing the framework to unleash GWB on […]
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Viagra for the NRA crowd is what Frank at Pine View Farm calls WhiteManistan’s Cult of AR-15. It’s what it boils down to. The last two weeks destroyed all the NRA’s about the goodness of being more heavily armed. Just the opposite — the more heavily armed a certain minority white part of the populace […]
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Frank at Pine View Farm points to a piece in a Philly newspaper, utterly stupefying news on Rick Santorum’s opposition to a symbolic UN convention for disabled people, modeled after a similar US thing: Specifically, Santorum, joined by Sen. Mike Lee (R., Utah), urged the Senate to reject the U.N. Convention on the Rights of […]
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