Re: Interconnectedness of Employment Markets (was Bankruptcy

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On 4/03/06, Mr. Blue wrote:
> On 4/03/06, L wrote:
>
>> anyway, so you hate the ruling elite, what are you gonna do about it? have you read An
>> Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (Charles Beard)? dude,
>> tell me what you're gonna do about it.
>

Mr BLue, you rock! Former conservative/libertarian turned populist leftist (not a liberal, but
a leftist) here, too.

As for Beard and his brilliant book, it is well known among academics, but no surprise that the
corpwhorate media and educational hierarchy never brought it to the attention of the public.

Here is a url that has much of the book itself and some excellent reviews:
http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/books/beard_usa_constitution.html

Another book that is very similar and perhaps easier to read is Jerry Fresia's Toward an
American Revolution. Fresia a former lecturer in Poli Sci at UMass and now runs a painting
studio Italy. His brilliant book is available here online in its entirety:
http://cyberjournal.org/authors/fresia/

Fresia's TAAR covers much of the same territory but was written only about 15 years ago and is
easier to read than Beard's book, wich was written almost 100 years ago.

Generally both books show the Founding Fathers for what they really were--opportunists who did
what they did for self serving reasons.
And Fresia goes further and explores the top vs bottom relationship that America was built
around.

Combine Fresia's ideas with Jim Goad's ideas (read his brilliant book, Redneck Manifesto!) and
you get some idea of my own politics.

Also see my blog--I am in the slow process of doing a documentary on some of these issues:
http://www.leftwingmediamachine.blogspot.com