NP - The Witch (movie)

ish mailian ishmailian at gmail.com
Sun Dec 18 11:57:19 CST 2016


Krugman, like so many who think like liberals with a conscience missed
something huge in the recent election and he still doesn't seem to
realize how wrong he was about the working people who supported Trump
and how the trade agreements with China and Mexico impacted wages.
Krugman, who defends trade, and the trade agreements (WTO, Most
Favored Trading Nation Status for China, for example )that stripped US
workers of wealth and job security argues that the US  jobs and the
benefits were lost to technology. This is false and those simple folk
Krugman claims to care about know it, even though he is a professor of
Economics,  has the Nobel in Economics and most of them don't have a
degree in anything. China's gain was the  US loss, in wages, job
security. Sure, the wealth got skewed more and more to the top 10%
under US Capitalism while in China the poor were lifted out of
poverty, so one could argue, as liberals often do, and did when the
unfair trade advantage was extended to China, that the US needed to
redistribute the wealth, educate, re-educate, invest in
infrastructure, productivity, workers...to offset the unfair trade
that raised the Chinese workers out of poverty and stripped US workers
of the wages, and that, in the long run, a China without poverty would
benefit not only China but the US, US workers, and the world. Not true
of course, but this was the thinking and Krugman was a big cheerleader
for it. Now he is reluctant to admit that he was wrong. The Liberals
got it wrong. At least from the American worker's point of view they
did. The US gave up a lot of manufacturing. It would shift to service
and knowledge economy. The shift, from Clinton through Bush and to
Obama, 24 years, failed. The Chinese took full advantage, and they
manipulated the currency to boot. Workers know this. Will Trump change
things?

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
> I look at the Times everyday and agree about the treatment of Hillary's
> silly emails, which clearly shouldn't have amounted to a row of beans in
> this crazy world. Krugman calls it false equivalency and says the mainstream
> press in general was guilty. He recently wrote a scathing piece on the
> subject.
>
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 7:09 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Paul!
>>
>> I like the NYT grammarian.  Otherwise I hate the NYT for endlessly
>> persecuting Hillary's emails and not showcasing Trump's endless lies,
>> race-baiting, Putin-loving anti-NATO crap. I HATE the NYT.
>>
>> Just saying..
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Saturday, December 17, 2016, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> No more than any other English teacher would--Hi David.
>>>
>>> p
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 5:35 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> OK.  Is it no different than our English?  You quibble.  Do you have a
>>>> point?
>>>>
>>>> David Morris
>>>>
>>>> On Saturday, December 17, 2016, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Shakespeare's language is Modern English, not Old or Middle English.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 7:53 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-witch-2016
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I'm only at the first third, but everything so far is layered in deep
>>>>> > resonances.  The language is faithfully old English, but that's not
>>>>> > the only
>>>>> > reason it reminds me of Shakespeare.  The drama is smart and real.
>>>>> > Cinematography is superb, as is the soundtrack.  In that regard this
>>>>> > feels
>>>>> > like Kubrick, but without the symmetry and clean edges.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > David Morris
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