Comments for Rushing the Growler http://www.the-growler.com Jared Carter on books and literature &c. Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:25:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on An Equal and Opposite Reaction? by Gregg http://www.the-growler.com/?p=1300#comment-19 Gregg Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:25:39 +0000 http://www.the-growler.com/?p=1300#comment-19 These topics are on many people's minds. For me, I see people walking past on the way to a shelter. They are real. They are the salt of the earth. Many have hit a wall, but you can see in the way they carry themselves that they have led productive, okay lives I think, until now. There is a surreal disconnect between our everyday people and the moneyed class, the corporate soldiers, the suits driving by in their dark-tinted windshielded BMWs and Mercedes. But you are right. This is not going anywhere fast if resentment and disparagement inform us. For me personally, Barack Obama diluted the meaning of a politics of Hope, the politics of Yes We Can, the politics of Change We Can Believe In. Anyway, I am looking for ways to join the battle. Just like some in Libya tonight. These topics are on many people’s minds. For me, I see people walking past on the way to a shelter. They are real. They are the salt of the earth. Many have hit a wall, but you can see in the way they carry themselves that they have led productive, okay lives I think, until now. There is a surreal disconnect between our everyday people and the moneyed class, the corporate soldiers, the suits driving by in their dark-tinted windshielded BMWs and Mercedes. But you are right. This is not going anywhere fast if resentment and disparagement inform us. For me personally, Barack Obama diluted the meaning of a politics of Hope, the politics of Yes We Can, the politics of Change We Can Believe In. Anyway, I am looking for ways to join the battle. Just like some in Libya tonight.

]]> Comment on An Equal and Opposite Reaction? by traveled and seasoned http://www.the-growler.com/?p=1300#comment-18 traveled and seasoned Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:55:51 +0000 http://www.the-growler.com/?p=1300#comment-18 We live in the age of the new "golden rule"-Those with the gold, rule. It is a sick season of greed and the division deepens. Do you think there could be a jar of air, breathed by Teddy Roosevelt, in the back shelves of the Smithsonian? Could it breed a sense of reason? Is there a glimmer of reform, anywhere? The modern Republican Party was first hijacked by those who began the unraveling spiral by way of deregulation. It was then inherited by air the air bosses of greed from the very military industrial alliance Eisenhower warned of. The result was two wars, a financial collapse and a cascading deficit. Now the party watches its few brains being eaten by the jackal spawn of John Birchers. And while those with the gold, get more gold, the great commonsense center, seems missing. Why are investment bankers not jailed but public employees are being pummeled? Why are the super rich being given another tax pass and education is being stripped, again? How long before America wakes up? There is a shadow demon who feeds on my frustration. He whispers another how long? How long before there are a few disappeared investment bankers, lobbyists, media gas bags? How long before the greedy and the fixers feel the chill? How long before those with the gold feel the refining fire of justice or maybe just the alchemy of revenge? How long? We live in the age of the new “golden rule”-Those with the gold, rule. It is a sick season of greed and the division deepens.

Do you think there could be a jar of air, breathed by Teddy Roosevelt, in the back shelves of the Smithsonian? Could it breed a sense of reason? Is there a glimmer of reform, anywhere?

The modern Republican Party was first hijacked by those who began the unraveling spiral by way of deregulation. It was then inherited by air the air bosses of greed from the very military industrial alliance Eisenhower warned of. The result was two wars, a financial collapse and a cascading deficit. Now the party watches its few brains being eaten by the jackal spawn of John Birchers.

And while those with the gold, get more gold, the great commonsense center, seems missing. Why are investment bankers not jailed but public employees are being pummeled? Why are the super rich being given another tax pass and education is being stripped, again? How long before America wakes up?

There is a shadow demon who feeds on my frustration. He whispers another how long? How long before there are a few disappeared investment bankers, lobbyists, media gas bags? How long before the greedy and the fixers feel the chill? How long before those with the gold feel the refining fire of justice or maybe just the alchemy of revenge? How long?

]]> Comment on An Equal and Opposite Reaction? by misch http://www.the-growler.com/?p=1300#comment-17 misch Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:21:52 +0000 http://www.the-growler.com/?p=1300#comment-17 Thank you. It is somewhat difficult here in the retirement state [Florida] to get a sense of how others are responding to this crisis. Thank you. It is somewhat difficult here in the retirement state [Florida] to get a sense of how others are responding to this crisis.

]]> Comment on An Equal and Opposite Reaction? by bj omanson http://www.the-growler.com/?p=1300#comment-16 bj omanson Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:09:16 +0000 http://www.the-growler.com/?p=1300#comment-16 The next election will tell whether or not the assault on basic workers' rights by Republican governors will reverse the steady migration of the working classes into the Republican party of recent decades. American workers in the 1930s (and well back into the 19th century) had a very clear idea who their friends and who their enemies were, and Republican administrations had never been their friends. The lines were clearly drawn and apparent to everyone, and they remained so well into the 1970s. But from the early '80s on-- for a whole host of reasons-- the old issues were lost sight of, and workers seemed to lose their sense of identity and their own history. Perhaps recent events will help clarify the old issues that have never really gone away. The next election will tell whether or not the assault on basic workers’ rights by Republican governors will reverse the steady migration of the working classes into the Republican party of recent decades. American workers in the 1930s (and well back into the 19th century) had a very clear idea who their friends and who their enemies were, and Republican administrations had never been their friends. The lines were clearly drawn and apparent to everyone, and they remained so well into the 1970s. But from the early ’80s on– for a whole host of reasons– the old issues were lost sight of, and workers seemed to lose their sense of identity and their own history. Perhaps recent events will help clarify the old issues that have never really gone away.

]]> Comment on Roberts School Revisited by jerrydreesen http://www.the-growler.com/?p=368#comment-13 jerrydreesen Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:41:38 +0000 http://www.the-growler.com/?p=368#comment-13 My wife, Sandy, remembers School #97 well. She passed it on the way to Tech HS when she was a student there in the '50's. She remembers the cement ramps that accommodated physically handicapped children. My wife, Sandy, remembers School #97 well. She passed it on the way to Tech HS when she was a student there in the ’50′s. She remembers the cement ramps that accommodated physically handicapped children.

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