if paying down the national debt is of some importance to you, dogzilla, presumably because it has some meaning, then you obviously oppose extending the bush tax cuts, correct?
shadow--neo-liberalism is what free-marketeer ideology is called most everywhere except the united states. it works better as a historical image that points back to classical political economy and bourgeois liberalism, a re-tread tire made of late 18th-early 19th century material, passed through hayek (without the intelligence) and von mises (about whom the less said the better) through the epic frauds of recent times (uncle milty anyone?). and in other places it operates independently of the repellent social politics particular to the american right.
i also like using the term because it links american reactionary economic ideas to a considerable body of critique of those reactionary ideas---much of which originates outside the united states. and for a while, this ideology was so dominant in the states that it didn't even have a name. so it is that we were served real well by the corporate "free press." but i digress.
__________________
a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
Last edited by roachboy; 09-23-2010 at 03:39 AM..
|