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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-26-09 10:19 PM Original message |
Robert Reich: From Consumers to Commons |
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maseman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-26-09 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
1. Great article |
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BR_Parkway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 12:27 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. In total ageement with you , what would you define as real growth? |
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maseman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 10:52 AM Response to Reply #1 |
11. Creating jobs with growth in |
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whistle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-26-09 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
2. So what will it be, fascism or socialism? |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 07:04 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Some might call it 'socialism', but it sounds like 'social democracy' to me |
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geckosfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-26-09 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
3. Thanks. I love this guy. Even when he is the bearer of bad news. |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-26-09 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
4. All too many of us are so broke and so far in debt that it will take a |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 09:37 AM Response to Original message |
7. good article...but I object to this word (& concept) --"binge".... |
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spinbaby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 10:10 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Yes, there are people with houses full of useless junk |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 10:22 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. And you wouldn't call them rich? |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 11:26 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. We have been on a traditional binge, defined for example, by; |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 11:51 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. good points |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 12:02 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. "It doesn't have to be this way." |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 12:12 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. So you think |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 12:20 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Well I don't think we need a mass economy |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 12:28 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. How do you support the masses |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 12:46 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. How do you support a mass economy without a constant need to consume? |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 01:01 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Assuming the masses |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 01:43 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. I don't think it can be done for an economy |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 12:57 AM Response to Reply #14 |
28. No, it really doesn't. The single indisputable fact in all this is that our economy is going |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 12:53 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Back at ya. |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 01:27 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Right, but if we have been |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 04:54 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. That is the problem, isn't it? |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 06:11 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Hey thanks Greyhound |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 12:35 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Here's the one I was referring to. |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 02:02 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. thanks Greyhound |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 02:16 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. excerpts... |
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northernlights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 07:13 PM Response to Reply #7 |
26. go hang out at a mall on a Saturday evening |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 10:40 AM Response to Original message |
10. What? |
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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
25. The necessary message that no politician dares to utter: |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 01:19 AM Response to Reply #25 |
29. All economists are dead-enders at this point... they don't know shite from shinola |
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