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About the RIAA assault on file traders: personally, the reason I don't buy CDs is because A) they're too damned expensive, and B) I don't have any money. There are 1.3 million more people below the poverty line this year, and the poverty line itself is a scandal; it should have been indexed to the real cost of living and adjusted by region to take local housing costs into account, but instead it's a complete fantasy.
A report just released showed that in Rhode Island, it would be necessary to make double the minimum wage just to afford a two-bedroom apartment; more than that would be necessary to eat and get transportation to work, I suspect.
Bush & Co. (the top 1% or fraction thereof who now own the US) have been squeezing the hell out of all the lower classes (which includes the middle class, and much of the so-called upper class) as hard as they can. There's a lot more they're going to do if they can, but the lack of disposable income is just an early symptom of the disease that is BushCo.
In many ways the Bush people are similar to a cancer in the body politic, in that they are happily doing their best to destroy the environment, both literal and political, in which they live - but will only end up killing themselves along with their host, should they succeed.
I know a hell of a lot of people out of work, and only ONE of them has even a prospect of a job. Consider the record companies and the RIAA an early casualty of the changeover to a banana republic economy.
On other fronts, I posted a new installment of Chatter recently; it basically announced that a lot of the activity that used to go on there, will now be here on LiveJournal instead. It's just so much easier and more convenient to post here. I'll probably still use Chatter for roleplaying-related chatter, and of course the site as a whole will continue unabated.
I only wish more people would comment on my stuff here...it would be nice to have some feedback.
A report just released showed that in Rhode Island, it would be necessary to make double the minimum wage just to afford a two-bedroom apartment; more than that would be necessary to eat and get transportation to work, I suspect.
Bush & Co. (the top 1% or fraction thereof who now own the US) have been squeezing the hell out of all the lower classes (which includes the middle class, and much of the so-called upper class) as hard as they can. There's a lot more they're going to do if they can, but the lack of disposable income is just an early symptom of the disease that is BushCo.
In many ways the Bush people are similar to a cancer in the body politic, in that they are happily doing their best to destroy the environment, both literal and political, in which they live - but will only end up killing themselves along with their host, should they succeed.
I know a hell of a lot of people out of work, and only ONE of them has even a prospect of a job. Consider the record companies and the RIAA an early casualty of the changeover to a banana republic economy.
On other fronts, I posted a new installment of Chatter recently; it basically announced that a lot of the activity that used to go on there, will now be here on LiveJournal instead. It's just so much easier and more convenient to post here. I'll probably still use Chatter for roleplaying-related chatter, and of course the site as a whole will continue unabated.
I only wish more people would comment on my stuff here...it would be nice to have some feedback.
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Also, it's a little hard to comment on political stuff when you see someone saying stuff you would say if you were just eloquent enough to say it. I agree gets kind fo stale after the fifty-millionth time I say it, but, for the record, I agree.
I also kind of wonder how long it'll take before people start catching on. Can Bush and the media really fool all of the people all of the time? If not, what happens when enough people figure out his little shell games and try to do somethign about it? Can he just completely falsify the election results or get away with stopping the election process entirely?
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(Anonymous) 2003-09-09 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)Not sure what can be done about Dubya. One would think that
he should already be nearly out the door, but the unfortunate
reality appears to be that he's maintaining most of his
popularity.
Now for the Democrats the issue kinda sorta is do they try
to get their "core constituency" rallied in which case they
should go for Dean or do they try to sway the "swing voters"
in which case they would probably be best served by Wesley Clark.
The problem with going for the "core" is that to win you
pretty much have to get people who haven't been voting to vote,
while the problem with the "swing" is that if you go to
hard for the middle you may lose the core who might stay
home or vote for the Green Party candidate.
The Republicans don't have quite that much of a problem
it seems. There doesn't seem to be a third party that
would draw off their voters, and they're a bit more dedicated of voters.
Thus since it would seem that nobody is going to challenge
Dubya in his party and he's still going to be spending
$200 Million in the primary and it would appear that most
Republicans will vote for him no matter what, well, it's
a problem.
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