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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (173069)	10/4/2011 8:54:06 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542940

To: TheSlowLane who wrote (31771) 10/4/2011 4:56:27 PM From: shakes Read Replies (1) of 31798 TSL, back off that windowsill, open a cold one and listen to the Michael Lewis interview on FreshAir.NPR today: http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=3&islist=true&id=13&d=10-04-2011 Early on he talks about how he left the comments made by Kyle Bass ref. gold on the "cutting room floor" before he came back around to understand Bass had been absolutely right. 38 minutes long, worth every second, including his observations that Greece has essentially already defaulted; that Goldman Sachs greased the Greek entry into the Euro by helping them cook their books, etc.... priceless... Shakes (for those who don't know him, Lewis wrote: The Big Short; Liars Poker and now, Boomerang...as well as The Blindside and Moneyball

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (173069)	10/4/2011 9:51:49 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 542940

People don't know their history e.g. feudal lords, peasants and serfs, and indentured servitude. Sweatshops, children sweatshops, migrant farm workers (I didn't eat table grapes for 20 years because Ceaser Chavez told me not to), migrant farm worker camps (I have lived in them-Watsonville and Pismo Beach), industrial dangers, black lung disease, 40 hour work week, weekends off, dignity. That is what unions (and the magna carta) protect you from. Some have never figured out the importance of unions. To those people I would say: "maybe you need to read a little history"! And to quote an old liberal I once called brother: "power to the people-lol".

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (173069)	10/8/2011 12:03:19 AM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 542940

That piece was more cogent than some of the things I've seen from Ted Rall, who happens to be a former friend. Former because my ex-wife got into a feud with him. I think he makes some good points, but he also has some problems with fuzzy thinking and jumping to unfounded conclusions. For example, the idea that the young are getting screwed because they don't get any benefits from the government is a bit off. We all get benefits from the government, even if we aren't old enough to be covered by the Medicare drug plan.