As GOP throws a tantrum in DC, Obama’s fortunes rise
The second major poll is as many days reports significant improvement in President Obama’s job-approval rating.
Here’s the first, released Monday by Washington Post/ABC News:
Source: Washington Post/ABC News
Here’s the second, showing quite similar movement, from CNN:
Source: CNN
And why the change? Some numbers from CNN explain:
Source: CNN
Meanwhile, congressional Republicans continue to throw childish tantrums in Washington over extending the tax break for working Americans, and GOP presidential candidates continue to pitch woo at their party’s more extreme elements.
They can’t hep it, they just cain’t hep it.
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Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
7:29 pm
Nothing of the sort……merely calling it like it is.
Also the same line …………………… since Carter.
Billybob
December 20th, 2011
7:30 pm
sooth,
please keep not disputing my points and keep up lib 101 character assasinations.
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
7:31 pm
no md
i am excatly right. you want to follow. you do not want to lead.
it’s too much like work.
you want to burn corn? we don’t want to BURN anything.
md
December 20th, 2011
7:32 pm
sooth…….I’m here for your amusement……someone has to feed the conspiracies…….
I’m not Billy Bob, but your gonna think what you want regardless of what I or he says…….so have fun.
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
7:32 pm
” Now again squirt, why dont you discuss the EPA findings rather than just act like a troll. Are you capable?”
Sure.
You lib ilks and the EPA Administrator (sorry for redundancy) said these new rules will save 20,000 lives per year. Logic tells me then, that 20,000 poor souls lost their lives THIS YEAR because of our lax standards.
Give me some names.
Thanks.
Mr_B
December 20th, 2011
7:34 pm
“you want to burn corn? we don’t want to BURN anything.”
Well, maybe hydrogen.
granny
December 20th, 2011
7:34 pm
can’t give you a name. it’ll probably be next year.
benzene. a leukemia.
Billybob
December 20th, 2011
7:34 pm
CSiVC,
you are right……harry reid, on purpose, is doing nothing……republican led house is on fire passing bills and reid brings nothing up in senate……quite pathetic and transparent for all voters to see and learn and know……
Brosephus
December 20th, 2011
7:34 pm
Yes, we need to find alternatives……but not at the expense of what currently props up our way of life.
What we have readily available would not be at the expense of what currently props us up. You’re looking at job opportunity in different areas, but the big oil companies do not want anybody jumping onto their monopoly. We already have vehicles that are capable of running on CNG. We have the ability to use hydrogen for different things. Shadetree mechanics have already figured out how to run diesel engines on vegetable oil.
The blueprint is staring us in the face, but we’re too scared to take that step forward. Doing one-off projects here and there will not do it. It will take a concerted effort from everybody to get things going.
md
December 20th, 2011
7:35 pm
“you want to burn corn? we don’t want to BURN anything.”
And Utopia sounds like a wonderful place……but we don’t live there, we live here……and like it or not, we are dependent on oil. Never said I had a problem moving away from oil, only that it is what it is.
Assumptions don’t serve you too well, try reading what’s on the page.
TaxPayer
December 20th, 2011
7:35 pm
Name some dead people who died as a result of our “lax” standards. Can’t? Shocked, I tell you, shocked!
There’s this.
A href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_Corporation_of_America”>And this.
How many examples do you want. I can bore you to tears.
Have you ever read anything about how the EPA, for example, came into existence. What do you know about Monsanto and their work with PCBs in Alabama or GE and PCBs in North Georgia. Do you happen to know why you are warned by Georgia DNR not to eat fish from certain lakes and rivers in Georgia.
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
7:36 pm
hydrogen?
teach please.
Brosephus
December 20th, 2011
7:37 pm
What do you know about Monsanto and their work with PCBs in Alabama
I don’t even like thinking about that one. That’s close to home for me. I know people who grew up in that zone.
md
December 20th, 2011
7:39 pm
soco…..couldn’t agree more.
But that doesn’t change the here and now, and it won’t for quite some time. So, in the meantime, we also need to protect what we have as it is what is propping us up.
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
7:39 pm
utopia. dull.
working for the common good. exciting.
not to mention right.
priorities.
Mr_B
December 20th, 2011
7:39 pm
GG: End product from burning hydrogen= just plain water.Discounting heat pollution, which you get with any energy tranformation (2nd law of thermodynamics) no harm, no foul.
josef
December 20th, 2011
7:39 pm
Mr B
Shalom! You’re welcome…it just warmed the c*ckles of me ol col heart, it did…
Sooth
md is a gentleman….don’t even think of classing him with them…
Sinwich
Have you ever had a happy moment?
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
7:40 pm
Yo, Tax, even wiki said that article is crap.
Even that DNC plant, Granny, can’t give me a name.
Go figure.
Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
7:40 pm
So, in the meantime, we also need to protect what we have as it is what is propping us up.
That needle is skipping in the same ol’ groove.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
7:40 pm
Logic tells me then, that 20,000 poor souls lost their lives THIS YEAR because of our lax standards
Logic tells me their names were Bob, Bill, Jane, Rachel, Sue, Mom, Dad, Son, Daughter. Science tells us they die.
TaxPayer
December 20th, 2011
7:41 pm
Aw frack, Here’s that Peanutty link again. And this.
Now where’s that link about the lady that found out about them folks getting that hexavalent chromium in their drinking water. What was the name of that movie. Erin something.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
December 20th, 2011
7:41 pm
Well, this latest poll kinda reminds me of the old story of the preacher that went to visit a moonshiner. After sampling the product a little too much, he started to walk home. Along the way he got real tired. Seeing a haystack near the road he walked to it and laid down to take a nap. Some boys up to no good sneaked up and set the haystack on fire. The preacher woke up and saw the flames rising above him. He said, “In he[[, just as I expected.”
And that’s where we’ll be in November. I ain’t worried about the flames, but when No. 1 Foxy Lady gets on here the day after the election and tells us Conservatives to . . . well, you know.
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
7:42 pm
yes,F
i can’t give you that name.
you aren’t worthy.
TaxPayer
December 20th, 2011
7:43 pm
Yo, Tax, even wiki said that article is crap.
Yo Sinkwich,
Go tell the survivors of the dead. Better yet, maybe the dead will come haunt you just so you’ll know how they died.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
7:44 pm
josef: you can say COCK on this website. I promise that you can!
Mr_B
December 20th, 2011
7:45 pm
“warmed the c*ckles” reminded me that up until this year, my students couldn’t do an in-school internet search for Charles D*ckens.
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
7:46 pm
Keep:
“Logic tells me their names were Bob…”
I knew Bob. He smoked three packs of Camels (no filters, of course) a day, liked to sniff glue, and voted for O’bozo.
Bwaaaaahahahaha!
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
7:47 pm
“GG: End product from burning hydrogen= just plain water.Discounting heat pollution, which you get with any energy tranformation (2nd law of thermodynamics) no harm, no foul.”
Especially when that original heat came from the Sun.
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
7:47 pm
And Bob got a lib ilk trial lawyer to blame his lack of breath on the coal plant 1500 miles away…..
josef
December 20th, 2011
7:48 pm
Sooth
I have had them moderated for such…was trying to refer to Ian Hancock must have changed that when it was decided that maybe we couldn’t use gypsy in the same context the n word so long as we spelled it with a lower case “G”
Brosephus
December 20th, 2011
7:49 pm
But that doesn’t change the here and now, and it won’t for quite some time.
I wouldn’t say that…. If you haven’t seen the Hydra Filtration System at work, you’re in for a treat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEaavKyZ9HY
You’re talking about a system that fits into a 20′ shipping container that can be transported anywhere in the world. It’s powered by solar power and can filter water to meet EPA standards for drinking water. It can also generate hydrogen and hospital grade oxygen.
The technology is there. We’re just too scared to take that first step.
Mr_B
December 20th, 2011
7:58 pm
SoCo: That vid is pretty interesting, even though it looks a lot like a sales pitch to me.As far as being too scared to take the first step, there’s a whole lotta very deep pocketed folks out there who have a lot to loose if we do.
Hmmmmmmmmm
December 20th, 2011
7:58 pm
LOL funny charts, Obama is TOAST! but you keep drinking that grape juice…
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
7:59 pm
can the heat “pollution” be harnessed for good?
md
December 20th, 2011
7:59 pm
“That needle is skipping in the same ol’ groove.”
And that may very well be………but doesn’t make it any less true.
Until things change (whenever that may be), we are stuck with the ramifications of oil, so it makes no sense to do anything to upset the apple cart before a new apple cart is built.
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
8:00 pm
Get ready for the big drop. The country will not renew the White House lease for a radical president. My prediction that’s as good as any at this point.
TaxPayer
December 20th, 2011
8:00 pm
Here’s a nice description of some of the nasty environmental disasters from the past. Why would anyone want to reduce regulations designed to minimize such occurrences. To make an extra buck! Is it really worth it.
md
December 20th, 2011
8:02 pm
“there’s a whole lotta very deep pocketed folks out there who have a lot to loose if we do.”
And that many more that would stand to gain if we do…….the market will react when the time is right….must not be right just yet, or the investors would be all over it. There are too many that don’t give a rats ass on what the investment is, as long as the roi is there.
Mr_B
December 20th, 2011
8:05 pm
GG: sure; any system can be made more efficient, which means less wasted heat. It can never be 100% efficient, and the the last couple of percent may not be cost effective, but it is possible.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
8:06 pm
My prediction that’s as good as any at this point.
Now that is funny. Because we all know that a guess pulled out from the hindside with bias is as good as polls and there is no science to polls at all…..of course, this is the same poster who claimed the polls supported him before…so polls are good ONLY as long as they support his desired outcome.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
8:07 pm
Love Canal: now there’s a suggestive description if ever I heard one!
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
8:08 pm
gotta make a batch or two of dough but
the market must not take precedence over the population.
never ever ever.
you can sell your soul, you can’t sell mine.,
.
.
.
did i mention my tree is a masterpiece of overstatement?
Bud Fox
December 20th, 2011
8:10 pm
blue horseshoe luvs anacott steel
Hmmmmmmmmm
December 20th, 2011
8:12 pm
Thanks Bud, I’m all in…
Mr_B
December 20th, 2011
8:12 pm
md: I agree to a point. The problem is that the investors will always back a proven horse (fossil fuels) against anunproven one (renewables) in the short term. But in generational terms fossil fuels are unsustainable. We may have enough coal to power the country for the next 150 years, but what happens in 160 years? If we incentivise renewable energy now, our great-great grandkids won’t have to worry about it.
LydiasDad
December 20th, 2011
8:13 pm
Sure, but the Occupiers weren’t throwing tantrums. More bias from this guy.
Hmmmmmmmmm
December 20th, 2011
8:14 pm
In all seriousness, how long do you think it took Jay to make up those lies about our savior, Obama…:)
BADA BING
December 20th, 2011
8:14 pm
sooth………………………………………………………………………………….
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
8:15 pm
Granny, all respects to your tree…..I left mine at the store.
But I may put some antlers on the black golden (today’s visitor) I have later.
Paulo977
December 20th, 2011
8:15 pm
josef
:He gets an F from me on education….
_________________________
Have to agree …. I am not sure Arne Duncan knows what to do!!!
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
8:16 pm
I guess Bob isn’t the poster boy you lib ilks were looking for. Too bad, though. Just after he hacked up his last lunger he told me how much he loved Granny’s posts and how every time he saw Carol Browner on the TV he got a woody.
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
8:18 pm
“Now that is funny. Because we all know that a guess pulled out from the hindside with bias is as good as polls and there is no science to polls at all…..of course, this is the same poster who claimed the polls supported him before…so polls are good ONLY as long as they support his desired outcome.”
Well I hurt her little fragile sensibility’s again. Good.
Eatmebookman
December 20th, 2011
8:19 pm
Ah, “the rich and greedy corporations.” ZZZZZzzzzzz
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
8:21 pm
“We may have enough coal to power the country for the next 150 years, but what happens in 160 years?”
Uh, B, the flux capacitor is invented?
Now that I think about it, I miss good ol’ Bob…
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
8:23 pm
RCP average still has Dumbo in negative approval and that still doesn’t bode well for him going into an election year.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
8:24 pm
Well I hurt her little fragile sensibility’s again
Well nancy, reports about hurting my sensibility are greatly exaggerateded but I bet you pull that line out of the same place as your prior whine…..
md
December 20th, 2011
8:25 pm
Mr B…..I wouldn’t look for “proactive” from a gov’t that has a history of being “reactive”……these guys/gals are the masters of the 11th hour……and that applies to both sides. The only operate in crisis mode.
And you are correct, investors like the proven returns…..which is why nothing will happen over night or within the decade. And when it does, there will be many on the back end that will lag into the alternatives due to nothing other than cost.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
8:28 pm
According to the world’s largest online family ancestry database Ancestry.com, former President George W. Bush and presidential contender Mitt Romney are cousins — 10th cousins, twice removed.
So there is a possibility of another Bush family member in 2012/
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
8:30 pm
“Well nancy, reports about hurting my sensibility are greatly exaggerateded but I bet you pull that line out of the same place as your prior whine…..
”
Sure Shirley but don’t post in such a panic that you don’t check your spell checker. Have a nice evening.
oldtimer
December 20th, 2011
8:33 pm
Meanwhile many of usstill are against the European-Socialist…unsuccessful….broke system being proposed by our President.
Jefferson
December 20th, 2011
8:35 pm
The GOP again turns out to be duck heads. Tea reps are children at best.
josef
December 20th, 2011
8:36 pm
Make the connection
Newt’s ringtone wa Abba’s Dancing Queen…remember? And folks were asking why?
According to informed sources, it’s his new girlfriend’s favorite song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBpoTYv8th8&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL8FA374D054545279
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
8:38 pm
VOTE REPUBLICAN 2012
We Promise We Won’t F*UCK EVERYTHING UP AGAIN!
You can trust us!
AmVet - A Happy KwanzChristmakkuh to al!
December 20th, 2011
8:38 pm
Jeezoo, not a lot of Christmas spirit tonight among my right wing brethren.
Maybe this will assuage your wounds…
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Not too bad for a long backslidden Christian, born a Jew, new age, quasi-Buddhist post modern non-theist, huh?
(I just dig the vibe.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM-D3jnhmbQ
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
8:39 pm
hey 1%’s……. here is a great Disco Toilet for your gift giving ideas. Remember whether you are pulling out your opinions or merely boweling for dollars, do it in style and panache. This holiday season give the gift that says “Hey you starving and homeless people throughout the world, I poop on you.” http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/crystal-toilet-jewel-in-crown-tokyo-manufacturer-4665230
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
8:39 pm
Oops! Didn’t mean for that to slip in there!
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
8:40 pm
oldtimer, Obama is a captive to his ideology and that’s why we haven’t really moved forward from this prolonged recession. The best thing that happened for our country was the 010 national election that put brakes on the far-left agenda. Hopefully, it will continue even more so in 012.
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
8:40 pm
Let’s all bend a knee to Bob, the only known victim of our lax environmental standards (according to uber lib ilk, Keep). It wasn’t his three-pack-a-day-Camel habit, nor his glue sniffing, but the coal fired power plant 1500 mies away that did him in.
We weep in unison at his demise.
Let us all plant a windmill in our yards in his honor.
*sniff*
Todd ... this is Todd
December 20th, 2011
8:40 pm
I’ve already given … my European Socialist … to Sally.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
8:45 pm
In Japan, we believe a deity exists in the toilet. That’s why keeping toilets clean and taking good care of it have been a Japanese custom since long ago,” he added.
Insert your Scout, Billy Orvis White joke here….. best joke gets a week’s supply of Ilkbone!
josef
December 20th, 2011
8:49 pm
PAULO
What to do? Get rid of those d*mned tests…but that ain’t gonna happen…too much money being made on them and too much kickback and lobby shekels…
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
8:49 pm
Man, it shore must be hard to be a Fright-Winger these days. Witness Fish Sandwich and Del’s lame attacks.
I just cain’t wait for November 7, 2012. What a glorious day that’s gonna be! Fish Sandwich and Dull and Scoot and all them other Fright-Wingers is gonna be a-wondering “what happened?”
Soon yore pain will be over (or just startin’). I just cain’t wait! Good-bye, losers!
Hmmmmmmmmm
December 20th, 2011
8:49 pm
Recon,
I don’t even think it matters much who wins the election… This country is so far gone, it would take the second coming to bring us back….. I don’t mean the re election of this politician either…
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
8:52 pm
Ahhh poor Sooth who can’t post any truth.
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
8:54 pm
Hmmmmmm,
I hear you but I’m still a believer that we’ll overcome and rise above this left wing created mess.
md
December 20th, 2011
8:57 pm
Hey Am……an early PC xmas song that all can relate to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQAtnWynBsI&feature=related
md
December 20th, 2011
9:00 pm
Or for the more traditional xmas song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SRsMHB2P2o
She plays a mean sax…….
mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack the Liar Obama - BEND OVER, Here comes the CHANGE!
December 20th, 2011
9:04 pm
How about FOUR MILLION TAX PAYERS DOLLARS for another vacation to Hawaii? I guess you don’t have a problem with that. MERRY CHRISTmas!!
josef
December 20th, 2011
9:08 pm
Bend Over
Oh, for the love of G-d, you dimwit! He’s the President of the United States of America…do you suggest he fly coach and stay at the Motel 6? Would that we lived in the world of Harry Truman when you could do that.
Not a Neal Boortz Redneck
December 20th, 2011
9:11 pm
Don’t worry GOP Bushpigs.
Fat Rush will tell you what to think on Wednesday.
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
9:13 pm
josef,
I think the president would set a wonderful example for elected officials by flying coach and staying at the Motel 6.
Real Scootter
December 20th, 2011
9:13 pm
josef
December 20th, 2011
9:08 pm
Dang josef,you were supposed to tell Bend Over that Bush took more vacation than Obama! lol
And good eve to you sir.
md
December 20th, 2011
9:14 pm
The Motel 6?
They don’t deserve such posh accommodations………..put em on the street….all of em.
josef
December 20th, 2011
9:17 pm
Del
Like I said, would that he could…now congressmen, et al…they could since, as Rep Cynthia found out, nobody knows who they are anyway!
Scooter
Hey! Long time no see! And, yeah, there is that!
josef
December 20th, 2011
9:18 pm
md
Well, I’ll go for that!
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
9:19 pm
“Bush took more vacation than Obama!”
Now, you’re all wrong, there. Bush was a 24/7 President. He worked 24 hours a month, 7 months of the year!
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
9:21 pm
I called Bob’s widow, Betty, to express our collective condolences for his demise due to our pathetic EPA (non)regulations, according to our resident environmental oracle, Keep.
Betty said thanks, but I wept when she told me of another tragedy in her life.
Remember when we voted about that $10 fee every time we registered our cars to fund trauma centers throughout Georgia? Jay said it would save 700 lives a year!
I scoffed and challenged him or anyone to name someone who had passed a because these centers weren’t available. He couldn’t of course, but guess what???
Betty said Bob Jr. got run over by a Prius in Valdosta and couldn’t get to a trauma center before he croaked! She said the helicopter couldn’t land because of all the windmills in the area.
A name for Jay!!!
Lucky Betty! She has a poster husband for the EPA and a poster son for higher taxes!!!
AmVet - A Happy KwanzChristmakkuh to al!
December 20th, 2011
9:22 pm
Niiice, md. Love that jazzy Christmas stuff.
And who didn’t love that Lennon tune?
She reminds me of this horn blowing goddess…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SfSQ3lQmJw
Real Scootter
December 20th, 2011
9:23 pm
They don’t deserve such posh accommodations………..put em on the street….all of em.
We would still have to support them md,but it wouldn’t cost quite as much.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
9:23 pm
How could I have possibly been so careless? I meant to say 24 hours a week and 7 months a year. This is hilarious! You have to listen to it!
BADA BING
December 20th, 2011
9:25 pm
sooth…..who cares who is president? This economic thing has to run it’s course, regardless of what party is in control. We are killing bad guys with drones, and deporting illegals at a record pace. Life is good.
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
9:29 pm
“She reminds me of this horn blowing goddess…”
AmVet, kind of reminds me of a much younger Hillery but with the same thunder thighs.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
9:31 pm
[B]etween 1980 and 2007 the global labor force rose from 1.9 billion to 3.1 billion, a growth rate of 63 percent. Historical transition to capitalism in many less-developed parts of the world, which has led to the so-called de-peasantization, or proletarianization and urbanization, especially in countries such as China and India, is obviously a major source of the enlargement of the worldwide labor force, and its availability to global capital. The ILO report further shows that, worldwide, the ratio of the active (or employed) to reserve (or unemployed) army of labor is less than 50%, that is, more than half of the global labor force is unemployed [6].
It is this huge and readily available pool of the unemployed, along with the ease of production anywhere in the world—not some abstract or evil intentions of “right-wing Republicans and wicked Neoliberals,” as Keynesians argue—that has forced the working class, especially in the US and other advanced capitalist countries, into submission: going along with the brutal austerity schemes of wage and benefit cuts, of layoffs and union busting, of part-time and contingency employment, and the like.
Real Scootter
December 20th, 2011
9:31 pm
AmVet – A Happy KwanzChristmakkuh to al!
December 20th, 2011
9:22 pm
Awesome choice of music as usual AmVet!!!
josef
December 20th, 2011
9:31 pm
“…and deporting illegals at a record pace…”
Unmentionable says, a good start, now maybe we can send all y’all Old World people back where you came from along with Helen Thomas…
Fast and Furious Spending
December 20th, 2011
9:32 pm
“Pitch woo”??!
The only pitcher of woo is yoohoo, Jayjoo.
Fast and Furious Spending
December 20th, 2011
9:35 pm
It’s NOT the good people who’ve been in Washington for decades, Jay, spending us into insolvency. It can’t be.
That wouldn’t fit into your yearlong tantrum against conservatives, the Tea Party and republicans, would it?
2012 is just around the corner.
Let’s see how Obama fares against a real flesh and blood candidate in the only polls that matter.
Z
December 20th, 2011
9:37 pm
This week the Tea Party republicans have shown their true fanatic faces. They were sent to Washington to do the peoples work and they have failed at their jobs. They have taken it upon themselves to make their number 1 goal to make President Obama a one term President. This is not what they were sent to Washington to do. Therefore come election time next year they will all be fired and removed from their positions in the house of congress. Here are the names of 4 of our Tea Party Representatives that were sent to Washington. Congressman Paul Broun, Congressman Phil Gingrey, Congressman Lynn Westmoreland, and Congressman Tom Price. Post these names on your refrigerator or on your calendar for next year, or on your Desk, just don’t forget these names because these four Tea Party Republicans as well as others from this state have failed at doing their JOBS. Vote them all out come election time 2012.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
9:37 pm
Marx characterized capitalism’s ability to create a big pool of the unemployed, or “relative surplus population,” in order to create a largely poor and meek working class as “immiseration” of the labor force, a built-in mechanism that is essential to the “general law” of capitalist accumulation:
“In proportion as capital accumulates, the situation of the worker, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.… The law which always holds the relative surplus population in equilibrium with the extent and energy of accumulation rivets the worker to capital more firmly than the wedges of Hephaestus held Prometheus to the rock. It makes an accumulation of misery a necessary condition, corresponding to the accumulation of wealth. Accumulation at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, the torment of labour, slavery, ignorance, brutalization and moral degradation at the opposite pole, i.e. on the side of the class that produces its own product as capital”
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
josef
December 20th, 2011
9:38 pm
F and F
“…against a real flesh and blood candidate…”
Okay, got one?