Um, excuse me, but what the freak?
You have got. To. Be. Kidding Me.
The diary entry above, transparently nonsensical, is a call for Kossacks to lay down their arms in the face of threats to their economic well-being.
"The Class War is over, craptards!" it exclaims, "And you LOST!"
No.
Freaking.
Way.
You can pull the American Way, the Great Middle Class and Our Democracy out of my cold, dead, hands.
The diarist wants us to lay down arms because "free trade" has won.
Free markets have won.
"Free trade" and "Free markets" means that powerful individuals and institutions have succeeded in getting you to forfeit your democratic powers so that they can use legislation unfettered -- legislation that is substantially enriching them year after year after year ...
To your disadvantage.
Listen:
There is no "free trade."
There are no "free markets."
These are code-words for ways of doing business that reduce risk and preserve wealth for capital while sucking money out of the pockets of the working man.
The diarist linked above wants me to retrain?!
The diarist linked above wants me to become more competitive?!
And the diarist above cites specious statistics saying that industry requires more "skilled workers" -- which has long since been debunked as a code phrase meaning that industry wants to "import more and cheaper workers."
Sorry.
I'm not going to throw up my hands and give up when confronted with this moronic nonsense.
"Globalization" is not an inevitability. In fact, the inevitability is precisely the opposite, because Globalization relies on the promise of eternal cheap fossil fuels.
The inevitability is that Americans -- like me, like you -- will resist the downward spiral of standard of living planned by the financial services industries, big business, the economic elite and their allies in Congress.
We will demand the restoration of our democratic power to regulate the economy for the common interest.
We will take back what has been taken from us.
And we're not going to let the looting continue.
Don't give up.
I'm not.
The corruption, the collusion, the punitive legislation that fills the pockets of business, the rape of the environment that makes operations cheaper for industry, the importation of cheaper workers, legal and illegal -- all of this must stop.