[Peace-discuss] Letter in News-Gazette

[David Green]

I will keep my eyes on the road from now on and try not rip anyone a new one, in Greco-Roman fashion or otherwise.

John Dewey said that politics in America/capitalism is the shadow cast by big business over society. That extends to government and its employees, who are always being told that what they produce with their labor somehow detracts from rather than adds to our societal wealth. Some of them perhaps even believe it, at least for occupations other than their own. Overall, what most government workers do--outside of the military (which of course has been greatly privatized)--is provide services that the private sector hasn't yet figured out how to completely marketize and profit from. If government employment doesn't always attract our "best and brightest" it's perhaps because the "better educated" are taught to think their education hasn't been worth it unless it's reflected in their bank account/stock portfolio/vacation homes.

DG



On Monday, December 30, 2013 6:50 PM, C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com> wrote:
  
Euripides and you don't get another pair?
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>On Dec 30, 2013, at 6:16 PM, E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森 <ewj at pigsqq.org> wrote:
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>> Whether I partake of your optimism about government employees or not, you do identify
>> several key problems plagueing Amerika:
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>> 1.  Militarism
>> 2.  The police state and the incarceration industry.
>> 3.  Crony capitalism and corporatism
>> 4.  The well-being of the populace.
>> 5.  Jobs and the economy.
>> 6.  The health-care fubar.
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>> Your challenge is not transliterated Ja'aaa-Kovs who fling words at you like cow-chips.
>> To me, the challenge is rather to state your case in ways that people can understand so that they
>> can find resonance with your ideas.
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>> p.s. - After I sent the note I recalled that it was Epimenides not Euripedes.
>> Euripedes was the guy always having trouble with his trousers.
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