sirvaliantbrown
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From David Brooks' latest (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/opinion/02brooks.html?ex=1210478400&en=e02a817512727e75&ei=5070&emc=eta1):
Hillary Clinton summarized the narrative this week: “They came for the steel companies and nobody said anything. They came for the auto companies and nobody said anything. They came for the office companies, people who did white-collar service jobs, and no one said anything. And they came for the professional jobs that could be outsourced, and nobody said anything.”
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Cribbing from Wendy's ads? That is cool.
Cribbing from poems about the Holocaust (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...)
That is very, very not cool.
(And, while we're on the subject, can we talk about how ridiculous this is as an economic statement? Who is the "they" who is "coming" for all these jobs? Does Hillary Clinton want us to believe there a secret cabal - The Elders of Globalization, maybe? - which periodically sends various industries to concentration camps in its quest to control the world?)
Anyway. I don't really care to have the economic debate. I would just like to argue that famous poems about Nazi oppression are not the best things to copy for your speeches on economic policy.
Hillary Clinton summarized the narrative this week: “They came for the steel companies and nobody said anything. They came for the auto companies and nobody said anything. They came for the office companies, people who did white-collar service jobs, and no one said anything. And they came for the professional jobs that could be outsourced, and nobody said anything.”
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Cribbing from Wendy's ads? That is cool.
Cribbing from poems about the Holocaust (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...)
That is very, very not cool.
(And, while we're on the subject, can we talk about how ridiculous this is as an economic statement? Who is the "they" who is "coming" for all these jobs? Does Hillary Clinton want us to believe there a secret cabal - The Elders of Globalization, maybe? - which periodically sends various industries to concentration camps in its quest to control the world?)
Anyway. I don't really care to have the economic debate. I would just like to argue that famous poems about Nazi oppression are not the best things to copy for your speeches on economic policy.
