"If at first you don't succeed,
Then try, try again."
F*ck that 'G',
Where's my Mercedes Benz?

I'm a hard-hittin' poet
From the Left of the spectrum,
If you dis the Polit,
You'll get a boot in your rectum.

That's it, my bruthas!
I'm sick of supply-side,
Turnin' people into debtors;
It's economic genocide.
So what do we need?
We need a new policy.
One that's progressive,
Like the NEP.

Read the directive:
It's time for us to rise!
To get aggressive,
And nationalize
The production means.
"E" needs a new pair of jeans!

I got an extra AK,
Will you carry it?
Or will you betray
The Proletariat?

We gotta fight the power:
Tax cuts for the rich.
The golden-shower,
The old bait-and-switch.
Can you hear that sound?
Yo, look out b*tch!
Here comes the trickle-down,
The rank yellow stream.
To them we are the clowns
Of the Amerikkkan dream.

So yo, yo;
Check this scenario:

One man lives on the streets.
He had to dumpster-dive
For the Nikes on his feet.
He's committed no crime,
But gets hassled by the cops,
While beggin' for dimes,
'Round the bourgeois shops.

While on the other hand,
There's this Wall Street punk.
He thinks that he's the man,
But it's all just luck.
He spends mad cash
On his vehicular fleet,
Beddin' down sweet ass
In his penthouse suite.

Gordon Gekkko… Gekkko.
Did I hear an echo?

Supply-side;
It's the ultimate lie.
The game is zero-sum
And I'm gonna get me some.

Yeah, "Party" people,
I came to get mine.
So show me some Franklins,
Filets and fine wines.
Ain't talkin' 'bout Timex
I'm all about Rolex.

In a pimped-out Caddy,
I'll be rollin' in style.
Then the cops will get behind me
'Cause I fit their racial profile*.

Word to the Muthaland!

*All right, guilt compels me to admit that I'm a white male graduate student with a trust fund. As such, I probably would not be pulled over by the police, even if I threw an empty beer bottle out of the window and cracked the windshield of the patrolman tailing me.

Jihad E wrote: ...That's it, my bruthas!
I'm sick of supply-side,
Turnin' people into debtors;
It's economic genocide.
So what do we need?
We need a new policy.
One that's progressive,
Like the NEP....

...In a pimped-out Caddy,
I'll be rollin' in style.
Then the cops will get behind me
'Cause I fit their racial profile*.


*All right, guilt compels me to admit that I'm a white male graduate student with a trust fund. As such, I probably would not be pulled over by the police, even if I threw an empty beer bottle out of the window and cracked the windshield of the patrolman tailing me.

So... what? Up with Keynes? Down with Greenspan (and Ben Bernanke by default)? Both SSEs and Keynesian model have their failings, and yet SSEs has, to some extent, kept Amerika's economy growing with fewer and shorter recessions... at the same time, Keynesian IS/LM model describes what has happened in the longer term since 80's... I would prefer a more "post-modern-Keynesian model" (sorry for Chomski-esque baffle-gab, but best description I could think of) that properly recognizes lags in market correction (particularly on international scale) and gives a clearer (and perhaps slightly less rosy picture) of SSEs results for US (and therefore Kanada) in the long-term, not to mention more focus on environmental/ethikal considerations (no... not a socialist wing-nut)... SSEs has avoided Keynesian stagflation, but I think the bubble is going to burst (because SSEs is more short term picture by nature) and when it does, the correction will have to be larger than it might have been had SSEs not created bizarre and warped picture of difference between wants and needs, and mishapen view of deficits and international trade imbalance...

No... not schizophrenic either... simply 40... have fallen down the crack between yuppies and gen-X-ers, and is very dark and cold and lonely sometimes... can see both side and chasm between two is widening (faster, as parents hit their sixties)... so, no more schizophrenic than Bush's speech of yesterday regarding economy, The Fed - post-Greenspan, oil and gas produktion, environment, and opening of Alaskan wildlife preserves to oil exploration and drilling... cars that produce water and pipelines that rape environment... more sucking and blowing... doesn't work, unless you're very good woodwind musician - not rapper; white with trust fund and serious DUI and littering charge, or black and po'.... I think maybe what you think of as SSEs is actually post-modern Keynesian anyway... one is snapshot while other is panoramic view. Problem, maybe, is that we have grown too used to snapshot and stopped looking ahead... forgotten history...

Sister Massively Opiated of the Kanadjian Institute of Socially, Ethikally, and Environmentally Responsible Ekonomics (okay... maybe little schizoid, but still upset that 2% of Amerikans think Kanada is enemy of US... has been very bad morning).

Let them argue over models,
Let them analyze the market,
As we raise the Red Banner
Over government departments!

Right now, we're in the middle
Of a class war.
Nero's playin' his fiddle;
Boots are hittin' the shore.
Viva la...Revolution!
Sign here for retribution,
We'll only even the score
Through total redistribution!

I'm a postmodern man,
I'm down with Foucault.
I can philosophize
With the best of 'em, bro!

We don't need no Keynes
Or the rest of those larks.
Just take your steed by the reins
And ride with Karl Marx!

Word to the Muthaland!

Jihad E - I'm going to create a background hip-hop track based on the Internationale. If you do the rap-over we'll post it on the site! Maybe even in the form of a music video.

Red Square wrote:Jihad E - I'm going to create a background hip-hop track based on the Internationale. If you do the rap-over we'll post it on the site! Maybe even in the form of a music video.

If Glorious Leader will make it available as Garage Band file, kollective could provide multiple remixes...

S.M.O.

Red Square wrote:Jihad E - I'm going to create a background hip-hop track based on the Internationale. If you do the rap-over we'll post it on the site! Maybe even in the form of a music video.

Hell yeah, Red,
You know I'm down with that!
You bring the funky beat;
And I'll drop somethin' phat.

I can hear it now,
The Internationale,
Reprised for our age,
For the class war we wage.

I wage a war against the Evil Meatball Men from Dimention 3, in my mind....

You off the chain, KB! That's wack! I gotta get summa that shizzat you been smokin'.

Kommissar Betty wrote:I wage a war against the Evil Meatball Men from Dimention 3, in my mind....

By Jihad E wrote: You off the chain, KB! That's wack! I gotta get summa that shizzat you been smokin'.

... and just as I was beginning to worry that between the recreationals I indulged in during my teens (there's nothing to do in southern Saskatchewan but farm wheat and 'escape'), and simply having spent six formative teen years in the Kanadjian gulag enduring sub-standard edukation and blow-over from constant crop-dusting of ubiquitous wheat fields, I'd created a permanent deficit of brain cells... Kommissar Betty puts my minds at ease...

Thanks much Bestski... and remember, just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean the high wasn't worth it (or that someone isn't out to get you)...

S.M.O.

I haven't smoked anything! I just stapled my tongue to the wall with staples that were coated with monkey extract!

Betski!

Kommissar Betty wrote:I haven't smoked anything! I just stapled my tongue to the wall with staples that were coated with monkey extract!

Just Say No to staples... is no necessary!... takes too many! Nail Gun - latest teknology and only shot! If you wish to avoid larger piercing, just lick monkey ("I did not have sexual relations with that monkey")... I know party duties take you away from keeping up with latest teknology, but for the good of the kollective, you must not put yourself through this. We will all help - is what kollective is for!

Just happy to know that is was not instance of being roofied at tavurna, as I suspected... Did you hear, they purged Haleski... was worried he had gotten to you before he ceased to exist. Apparently, he was sekret Hillary-lover. Have asked Anon to send you my winnings from Kapitalist Swine Starwars Look-alike Kontest to help with your recovery - ten whole PeoplesBucks!

For the Great Good!
S.M.O.

Did you hear, they purged Haleski

Who is Haleski?

Kommissar Betty wrote:

Did you hear, they purged Haleski

Who is Haleski?

Comrade Kommissar,

I have no idea who Haleski is... should I? As far as I know, "Comrade" Nathan Ilyitch Haleski - Enemy of the People never existed... so could not possibly know... this Haleski person...

Respektfully - perhaps it is vestige of monkey-extrakt that has put idea into your head that I know a Haleski... It is my great hope that the ten People'sBucks will help with your rekovery. Your Kollektive needs you.

S.M.O.

https://thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=342

Chistka Counselor wrote:The year - 1984; the news: "Comrade" Nathan Ilyitch Haleski - Enemy of the People never existed. We were always at war with Haleski - he was, in fact, counter-revolutionary. Chistka Counselor has assumed his duties and shall answer the People's questions regarding all matters of Stalinist law, the glory of Lenin or THE VICTORY THAT WILL BE OURS IN'08! ONWARD RED BANNER! WE WILL BURY THE FALSE AMERIKAN "FOUNDING FATHERS" PATHETIC AND ENSLAVING DREAMS! TOWELS, CHAINS (FOR OUR FEMALE COMRADES) CRESCENT CROISSANTS, ASPIRIN (OUR GLORIOUS FREE HEALTHCARE) AND VODKA FOR ALL!

Good old rehab clinics, I will use the ten People'sBucks wisely like the victims of Hurricane Katrina (Beer and Hookers).