Comments on: Louisiana Does The Right Thing, But Will Still Probably Screw It Up

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:53:04 +0000

John,

Excellent summary of the history of the American Economy and Society from the beginning of the Great Depression to 1940, then from the election of Ronald Regan until, roughly, the present.

You left out the 1940s, the 19500, the 1960s, and the 1970s.

Or was that just the history of LA?

By: John

John — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:46:22 +0000

1) US market collapses (1930’s).
2) US economy gets recovered entirely on the back of government spending.
3) Local independent economies vanish in favor of large, state-supported economies.
4) Increasing entanglement of state and corporate interests.
5) Only jobs you can get are shitty, unstable. Policies favor the rich. People’s lives become crappy.
6) Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: people can’t be arsed to care about evolution, intellectualism, science. They’re increasingly scared, emotional and tribal. They respond to charlatans and demagogues.
7) People are ignorant idiots run by corporate thugs.

QED.

By: MacTurk

MacTurk — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:05:39 +0000

as a matter of interest, where in the statistics does the Great State of Louisiana stand? In terms of average income, life expectancy, health, unemployment, college-educated percentage of population, etc? Curious, I am.

Meanwhile, I thank Dog I live in Europe.

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 11:03:56 +0000

It’s the 21st century and we still have people who deny reality and insist that their lies be taught instead.

Jeezus wawked on wawa – uhuh – I know caws the lawd tol’ me so!

That sort of stuff seemed retarded way back in elementary school – it doesn’t sound any better when the adults insist on it.

By: Clam

Clam — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:29:43 +0000

You know, if it wasn’t so sad, we Europeans would be roaring with laughter at the U.S.A. and its population of un-educated bigots. Ho hum.

By: gwen

gwen — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 07:20:43 +0000

I’ll believe it when September rolls around again next year and the textbooks are all handed out AND the teachers actually USE it.