globalization & Pynchon?

[Jane Sweet]

KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> Just an example of the "American way": the unemployment rate is in the US
> half as high as in Germany (5 % to 10 %). I'm not speaking about the "working
> poor" (1/3 of your "job wonder" are such jobs) - i want to mention another
> fact: in Germany (it's similar in other EU countries with the exception of GB
> - Mr. Blair was the "little brother" of Clinton and now of Bush) we have 80
> million people here and 60.000 prisoners (roundabout) - in the US 240 mio
> people and two million (!) prisoners. So I'm not astonished why your
> unemployment rate is so low...

First off, I'm not a Nationalist. It's not my business to
defend the USA and the "american way." However, I know the
facts from the BS. Unemployment in the USA is low. 

"1/3 of your "job wonder" are such jobs, "

I guess you mean the United States and it's full employment,
but I would need to see some figures here, 1/3 sounds about
15% too high to me. 

Well the prison population in the USA is too high, the USA
prisons are very bad, the drug enforcement policy is insane,
but again, to say this prison population is what is keeping
employment full is not a fact. 




> 
> A-and: I read f. e. Vineland as a very good introduction into the history of
> worker's movement in the us and why socialism didn't break out. Prairie's
> grandma is a good historian.
> 
> Kurt-Werner Pörtner

Yup! On this we agree.