http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 18 May 2013 05:19:47 Sat, 18 May 2013 05:19:47 Remember, as Bush shipped manufacturing jobs overseas, we were told that there would be "better, higher paying" high tech jobs available. Just enroll at your local community college to qualify.

Well, in the last month (since mid-September), there have been 20,000 layoffs in the high tech sector. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/41 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:17:31 At a meeting with the editorial board of the New Bedford Standard Times, Rep. Barney Frank called for a 25 percent cut in military spending which, he said, would mean getting out of Iraq sooner.

It would also mean that we would be constrained from getting into any more disastrous wars (and I hope... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/40 Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:56:59 Thanks for posting, a good read. I have thought for some time that we are at a crossroad between hyper-inflation and a deflationary depression. Kunstler logically connects the two.

For anyone interested in Kondratieff wave theory consider a conclusion by Koos van der Merwe ("Technical Analysis of... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/39 Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:29:51 What a tragedy he has not been President for the last two terms! His Shermanesque statement: "I've already been elected and didn't serve." He is dominating the discussion with Tom Brokaw.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/38 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:26:05 According to the Alliance for American Manufacturing:

The 24 states with primaries on Super Tuesday have lost 1,568,000 manufacturing jobs in the last seven years since Bush became President. (According to McCain, these jobs are gone forever.)

The Alliance for American Manufacturing is a partn... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/37 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:07:19 to "conservative foreign policy," and I'm left in doubt as to what that is supposed to mean. It probably means a neo-con foreign policy, i.e. interventionist, policemen of the world. On the other hand, people like Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan who are usually tagged as conservatives (at least libertaria... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/36 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:58:06 praise what I liked in the candidates but would refrain from negative comments (the Republicans will supply enough of those as the year wears on.) So I will offer this as a general comment not directed at any particular candidate.

I don't think anyone can "bring us together." It's a nice hope but... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/35 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:06:33 "Mrs. Clinton has just discovered the joys of protection. That is to be regretted," said Rupert Murdock to Neil Cavuto this afternoon, after praising Bill Clinton as a "free trader."

The power brokers like Murdoch have succeeded in making "protection" a dirty word while selling out the country. I... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/34 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:31:03 "Mrs. Clinton has just discovered the joys of protection. That is to be regretted," said Rupert Murdock to Neil Cavuto this afternoon, after praising Bill Clinton as a "free trader."

The power brokers like Murdoch have succeeded in making "protection" a dirty word while selling out the country. I... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/33 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:30:48 "Mrs. Clinton has just discovered the joys of protection. That is to be regretted," said Rupert Murdock to Neil Cavuto this afternoon, after praising Bill Clinton as a "free trader."

The power brokers like Murdoch have succeeded in making "protection" a dirty word while selling out the country. I... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/32 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:30:12 system. It is vital that the supply of medical personnel and facilities be increased to meet the increasing demand. That cannot be done overnight.

I hear the candidates talk about bringing more people into the system, but we also need to bring more suppliers into the system. I believe the now de... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/31 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:27:47 dollar; eroded manufacturing base; toxic foreign policy; threadbare military. I sometimes wonder why our Democratic candidates want to try to deal with this mountain of misery - patriotism or masochism?... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/30 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:36:10 be. The silver lining is that we will necessarily cease to consider ourselves to be the policemen of the world and can turn to solving our internal problems - which are many. No debt-ridden, energy dependent country can hold hegemony over the world. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/29 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:30:43 According to Forbes.com, China is the world leader in air and water pollution. The World Wildlife Fund says China is the largest polluter of the Pacific Ocean. Two third of China's largest 660 cities face water shortages. Per the EPA, 25 % of the particulates hanging over Los Angeles originate in Ch... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/28 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:14:07 Al, please run!

Bush is leaving behind monumental problems. We desperately need a President who has a vision for the future, who is willing to embrace change, and who is universally respected throughout the world. We need to (re)elect Gore.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/27 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:49:31 about a favorite Bible verse from Larry King who pulled it on an unsuspecting Paris Hilton. But the clever little minx was too smart for him. "I like them all, Larry."

Full disclosure - mine is: "For now we see through a glass darkly." (1st Corinthians)

Aside from its religious significance, t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/26 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:13:19 to the U.S. and to Canada. Not just poverty - since time immemorial there was poverty - but now a new kind of poverty brought on when their third-world economy was put in harness with the first-world economies of the US and Canada - i.e. in a word, NAFTA.

And when millions of working-age people l... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/25 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:46:37 The New York Times reports today (September 2):
"...the long term outlook is not good, and travelers should brace themselves for a growing number of chronically late planes....
"The reasons include an overtaxed air traffic control system that is probably at least a decade away from being... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/24 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:37:32 Jeffrey Larson used to be paid $ 17 million a year to manage Harvard University's huge endowment. In 2004 he decided to set up his own Hedge Fund - Sowood Capital - and borrowed $ 2 billion from investors. Harvard put up $ 500 million.

By last Wednesday, Sowood Capital had lost half its money, an... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/23 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:36:33 Cramer, the stock market guru on CNBC, in his usual frenetic style calls the present economic situation "Armageddon."

"Billions for building homes in Iraq and thousands are losing their homes here. Fourteen million people took out mortgages in the last 3 years. Seven million took teaser rates an... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/22 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:42:33 but at the monumental mess he will leave behind. Mess is actually too weak a word. He has wrecked our armed forces, left us isolated in the world, piled up a staggering debt which we owe largely to China, Japan, and other Asian countries, sunk the dollar to new lows, corrupted the government, solved... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/21 Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:36:27 he sure nailed it with that quote which begins this article: "We're all wired into a survival trip now." That's deep at every level. Sadly, he chose to abandon the trip, but the rest of us who've chosen to stick around need to ponder every day the reality of what survival now means.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/20 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:56:13 the decade now seems a wildly optimitic prediction. Indeed the only way oil will not top triple digits within the next few years will be if there is a huge worldwide depression."

Demand is going up (Chinese and Indians are now acquiring automobiles) and reserves are peaking out (check the situati... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/19 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:44:48 can be made between Vietnam and Iraq...." Yes, the "hollowness of the White House" is one, but there is another important comparison. Both were UNDECLARED WARS. The Constitution gives Congress, not the President, the power to declare war. Tomkin Gulf and Iraq Resolutions are not the equivalent of a ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/18 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:17:47 more. We are an increasingly fractured country (I hesitate to use the word nation.)A general sense of community seems to be absent - although there are sub-communities. We are told that we are a "credal nation" bound by a common respect for the Constitution and the Declaration. But how many of our 3... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rydz777/17 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:31:33