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We likeInstant CongressWords to live byBut, when it came down to, this case was made into a racial issue, which it shouldn't have been. It should have been an issue about a woman who was raped by three men. Case closed. The fact that she was black and they were white only plays into the fetishization of Black women and white men that has developed through years of inequal treatment. This also biased many people because it made this case into a national spectacle. It split people along racial lines instead of factual lines and investigating the story that the woman told instead of going on a witch hunt. Additionally, this case was turned into an issue of class as well. The Black, poor woman was raped by the rich white kids. Many wanted to see these men be charged because they felt it would put them in their rightful place, strip them of the privilege that they had been so accustomed to all of their lives. All of the things that this case stood for are all of the things that were wrong with the media's coverage of the case, the national obsession with the case, and the prosecution of the case. It became an issue of stripping privilege and proving that white people were not superior instead of ensuring that this woman was actually treated properly and had her CORRECT assailants brought to justice, not for political reasons but for criminal reasons. Subscribe Buttons                    | ||
It's All Terribly Confusing
Since 1981 the US has used some manner monetary policy to govern the economy. So what confuses me is if you're going to constantly putz around with the money don't you want it to have some value in the first place?
We haven't had a strong dollar since Bill Clinton left office. The current bunch went in with a weak dollar agenda and never bothered to tell anyone. Not that letting us in on their plans is exactly their strong suit.
But here's the strangest thing - the amount of money running around the US economy used to be posted every Friday by the Treasury. This was the measure of everything from the loose pennies you find in the bottom of the washer right up to the money the Pentagon plays with. From Nixon through Clinton that was public information, but now?
As the standup comics say, "What's the deal with that?"
Anyway - no you shouldn't give up on the middle class or as the ancient Greeks called it, the polis. They saw it as the great buffer between the rich and the poor. They felt that when you only had one or the other you were headed for disaster.
But it should be noted that it wasn't monetary but fiscal (AKA Keynesian) policy that created the large post-WWII middle class. There was an interesting article in The Atlantic a month or so ago talking about how you pretty much have to move to the Blue States to get work if you're the least bit educated. It all works along these lines.
And as we say at our hosue - all hail glorious people commentator Tovarish Dobbs and his struggle to raise class consciousness!