The inexplicable explained.

(10 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)

IOZ sweeps away the cobwebs of counter-intuitive nonsense to explain that “that is the way that it is because those wielding the levers of power want it that way:”

If you look at “high unemployment” as a desirable state in which the bargaining power of both the employed and the job-seeking is reduced to essentially zero, a state in which individuals and labor unions accept ever-more-disadvantageous wages and working conditions just in order to have a job; in which, in particular, workers desperate not to be fired increase hours worked and output even though their compensation is shrinking; in which profitability increases in part on the backs of those “productivity” gains . . . well, shit, it all makes a lot of sense.  When nice liberals wonder why Barack Obama and the Democrats and the Republicans and Everybody are enacting policies to “harm the labor market,” I would answer that they are enacting policies to harm the labor market. (bold mine)

That wasn’t so hard, wuzzit?  They want to crush labor.  They want slaves.

Similarly, you might look up to the heavens with kitten-eyed innocence and wonder why Obama and the Democrats and the Republicans and Everybody are psychopathically cutting debt-based spending on poor people and infrastructure, that type of spending which would have been maximally stimulating to the economy and the middle and lower classes, while continually cutting potential revenue streams from corporations and the wealthy, which results in maximally negative returns to the economy and the middle and lower classes.  

Wonder no more.  The vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money wants every last corpuscle of blood, until the balls of your feet are sheet white.

To quote Morris Berman,

“Under the Republicans, man exploits man. With the Democrats, just the opposite is true.”

-American bumper sticker