Miscellaneous

Susan Boyle fears her "career" will go bust even though it hasn't actually begun.

The "dance" group she lost to is utterly without any ability whatsoever. Britain is definitely starved for talent.
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The destruction of GM, especially by Obama, is the most outrageous assault on working people ever committed in this country:

This is a contemptible lie. The bankruptcy of GM will only accelerate the process of deindustrialization, which has been carried out by the ruling elite over the last three decades as it increasingly turned to financial speculation to amass its vast fortunes.

In the Obama administration, the American ruling class has found its most ruthless representative, led by a Democratic president who has gone even further than his Republican predecessor in the assault on the working class. While handing over trillions in public assets to cover the bad gambling debts of the financial elite, it demands unending “sacrifice” from workers. The destruction of the jobs and living standards of GM and Chrysler workers will now be used to set a precedent for sweeping attacks on every section of the working class.

From the beginning, the White House has relied on the United Auto Workers to block any resistance by workers. The UAW—which emerged seven decades ago in the bitter sit-down strikes against the exploitation of GM workers—has been complicit in returning auto workers to conditions not seen since the 1930s. In return for functioning as a corporate-government overseer, the proprietors of this organization are receiving billions of dollars in shares and a 17.5 percent stake in the “New GM.”

I don't see ANY economic recovery on the horizon. It is all fixable, but our on-the-take politicians refuse to have the will needed to fix our structural economic problems.
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You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.