Comment of the Day: Race to the Degrees: "It's still all about the 'strapping on your job helmet and firing off into job land where jobs grow on job trees'...
...to quote Mike Konczal. Plus a bit of dogwhistle 'get married NOT LIKE THE BLAHS' shit. And David Brooks, or rather whoever he's plagiarising this week. And who brings you this? F---ing pablum central, Brookings, plus actively evil and destructive AEI. How's that black coffee briefing with Danielle Pletka on democracy whiskey sexy working out for you, f---os?... The same people [were] babbling out this 'huh, yes, just graduate high school, get a job, and get married and all problems are literally solved' shit in 2004ish. And since then they dumped the Second Depression on everyone and they're still not fired and still not sorry and still copy-pasting the same talking points...
Comment of the Day: : Unfogged: Comment on Race to the Degrees: "There's a special Chicago-school twist of the...
...'deregulate the economy to grow it, and then transfer the wealth around' argument. The classic and very common two-step is simultaneously pushing to 'deregulate the economy [or do some other business/elite-friendly policy] to grow it, and then transfer the wealth around' and then, in the next breath, opposing wealth transfers for creating 'disincentives' for work, etc...
