NP - Toryism (Austerity) Isn't Working.

Joseph Tracy brook7 at sover.net
Sun Apr 29 17:03:08 CDT 2012


I hear Nobody has a similar platform to Mark as regards the size, location and legal status of certain parts of the body politic. Nobody continues to be very popular with most citizens. I personally feel completely confident that Nobody represents the things that make sense to me. Nobody should have the power of the US President.
Long Live Wavy Gravy 
Nobody for President!
On Apr 29, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Ian Livingston wrote:

> Government by miracle. Hm. We could have lovely deaf-mute balls at the Capitol. Hell, come to think of it, isn't that a pretty picture of Congress as it is, was, and likely will be, anyhow? World without change, amen.
> 
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I vote for all of you/us, a plistocracy to save the world.
> 
> On Apr 29, 2012 7:48 AM, "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  If we eliminated official "capitalism", just pretend riffing  here,
> more black markets would develop....Uh, i.e. capitalism, perhaps
> an inherent vice as well as a necessary good.....small merchants
> as they developed as the Middle Ages went dark were capitalists
> 
> So, I vote for the ultimate societal winner, capitalism, with a lot more 'sharing' and difference
> from what we have. I want a law redefining the personhood of corporations;
> I want laws for companies that understand Size Matters...Too Big to Screw
> Us laws....
> I want laws making employee ownership of companies
> mandatory...I want a guaranteed income for all......and/or that five-figure 'inheritance'
> of the US's general wealth that some economists argue we could give all at
> 18 or so.....I want a capitalism that would create more jobs............
> I want Medicare for all from birth...................................
> 
> Vote for me.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 12:48 PM
> Subject: Re: NP - Toryism (Austerity) Isn't Working.
> 
> On 4/28/2012 12:12 PM, alice wellintown wrote:
> > I'm not sure if we have capitalism here, but I'll vote to keep the
> > system we have in place, in place. I vote for it not because it is
> > moral or good, or even the best we can get, but because I'm selfish
> > and too much change will only cause me to make changes that will upset
> > my plans, probably increase my risks and reduce my income. So, I don't
> > like making a deal with devils or pigs, don't like all those banker
> > boyz playing cards with our economy, don't like the the piss poor
> > protection put in place after the government mustered just enough
> > nerve to push the lobbyists out for a few minutes, and while I
> > certainly don't like the rich getting richer and richer, the ordinary
> > citizen getting poorer and poorer, or most of trends Professor Krug
> > charts for us on his blog, including the chart Professor Krug added to
> > his blog today, a chart that shows productivity gain and wage
> > stagnation,  I no more expect the devil to take my soul to hell than a
> > revolution that will change the system we have in place, and,
> > honestly, it won't do me any good so....here's looking at you 99
> >
> 
> Thank you, Alice.
> 
> A well articulated explanation for your vote.
> 
> And speaking for myself, 99 doesn't look too far behind.
> 
> P
> 
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> 
> -- 
> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant




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