Sounds like this topic meets their Gold Standard. :(
Join AFT President, Randi Weingarten
& ex Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi
for a discussion of his new book
The Divide: American Injustice
in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Monday, April 21, 2014, 3–4:30 p.m.
AFT, 555 New Jersey Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20001, (4th Flr Conf Room)
RSVP to Carolyn Jenkins at cjenkins@aft.org byApril 18
Matt Taibbi has led the effort to expose Wall Street firms that are making millions in profits off public pension funds.
“Essentially it is a wealth transfer from teachers, cops and firemen to billionaire hedge funders,” Taibbi says. “Pension funds are one of the last great, unguarded piles of money in this country, and there are going to be all sorts of operators that are trying to get their hands on that money.”
[As usual] Matt Taibbi's book, "The Divide" will be available for purchase and signing.
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This is amazing. And also deflating.
Reminds me of the last, great, unguarded pool of ladders, and how people might use them to get a better view of context.
"Fiat" currency in the USA is a
direct expression of public initiative (and has been, officially, since 1933, NOT just since the inter-gov-only adjustments of 1971). Once we're convinced that we can somehow run out of our own, unlimited public initiative, then perhaps we've passed a tipping point. Past that point, is every pool of static assets already divided and conquered? Is Taibbi only uselessly railing about the mop-up exercises, AFTER implied capitulation? And in the process, completely missing the far more important DYNAMIC ASSETS?
Someone please tell Matt & the AFL-CIO that capitulation has not yet occurred? And that dynamic assets always trump static assets?
And also tell them that over-emphasis on defending (to the death) the isolated pools of already-issued fiat currency credits is a strategic error of colossal proportions? Isn't that like hunkering down to defend Stalingrad, and forgetting the purpose of the whole class war? Hint to all. Success ALWAYS tracks ability to envision the expanding scale of context - i.e., "Battle Space" - and exploring new options with more agility than opponents.
Given that the "opponents" in this struggle represent only our own, distributed ignorance, this is a battle we should win with ease, if we'd only listen, sooner, to more of ourselves!
Taibbi's call is akin to ONLY fighting over pools of already-issued tax credits?
That's how losing sides illustrate that divide-&-conquer works.
Taibbi doesn't get it? Nor does the AFL-CIO? And, they're both missing the bigger point? Worse,by doing so they actually help divert our electorate's attention away from the far bigger crime proceeding under our very noses, unnoticed by nearly all?
Nothing is as defeatist as a victimized population going along with it's own robbery, while actually helping to distract their own, distributed attention to details which are subsidiary to the greater crime.
In an all or nothing struggle for operational democracy, you do NOT focus excessive attention on subsidiary details, to the detriment of grand strategy!!! What part of all-or-nothing don't these people understand?
Instead of getting tied in knots defending specific, completely optional beachheads, the US Middle Class needs to be on an
ALL OUT OFFENSIVE to preserve functional democracy .... and ACTING WITH AGILITY!!!
If the AFL-CIO would only take this context more seriously, this pointless, class in-fighting could be over in 6 months .... or it could drag on, with tragic economic losses, for another generation.
