Comments on: Still Ragging on AmeriCorps

By: Dirk W. Sabin

Dirk W. Sabin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:37:03 +0000

Now you just wait a minute here buster, don’t go mentioning “intrinsic value” because if we go there, 90% of the entire edifice is suspect. Everything went bad when the value of Abalone Wampum crashed.

By: Mahakal

Mahakal — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:33:25 +0000

Jim, money is a totally social invention which has no intrinsic value. A debt currency like ours must either revolve or collapse, and if that happens your money is worthless anyhow.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:18:11 +0000

Mahakal - how would the government seizing some people’s money to pay other people to pretend to work make the nation secure?

By: Dirk W. Sabin

Dirk W. Sabin — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:28:11 +0000

About the time the ‘millions of people out of work” are dispossessed of their cartoon palazzo and its Realtor-coveted ‘Paylaydian Windows” and have lost several pounds by virtue of going hungry, they will not be “sitting at home” waiting for that job digging ditches for uncle Sam. No, they will be in the middle of a bloodthirsty drunken bender of smash and grab for anything they can lay their hands on to eat. This, my friend, is what stands behind the CCC, not some vain notion of “Government looking out for it’s citizens because of the big bad evil private enterprise”. The fact that the CCC left us
some great Parks was a happy accident. Actually, if you want to make sense of the current problem, ponder the fact that big business became alarmingly like big government over the last 40 years….in other words, it stopped seeing cause and effect relationships.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:21:56 +0000

Steve - how can the economy recover if the art supplies are in disarray?

Thanks for remembering that anecdote!

By: Original Steve

Original Steve — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:04:42 +0000

But Jim, who is going to “organize art supplies?”

Do you remember that little gem from Feeling Your Pain?

By: Mahakal

Mahakal — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:38:18 +0000

I would suggest that in an economic downturn which puts millions of people out of work, having more of them working rather than sitting at home is a good thing. Whether it can thereby “solve the nation’s economic crisis” largely depends on what you think the crisis is and how you think the economy should function in the long run. The private sector has failed to provide people with security of employment, at any rate.