Andymatic

Month: October 2011

  • Re-establish and maintain the separation between investment banks and commercial banks.

    After the Great Depression every said 'Well that sure sucked-' and they passed the Glass-Steagall Act separating investment banking (aka gambling) from commercial banking (consumers- real people) to reduce the exposure of speculation to consumers. It was repealed during the Clinton era. Maybe after Great Recession we need to put these protections back in place. […]

  • Digg Founder Rose Shows Oink Social Tool

    So the headline is: Rose Diggs Milk for Oink? Digg Founder Rose Shows Oink Social Tool Oink- one of the first products from Kevin Rose's startup- promises to help you find good things–from wine to roller coasters.

  • A Second Replacement For Facebook's Discussion Tab

    A Second Replacement For Facebook's Discussion Tab

  • You Just Need to Work Harder

    “Aside from the fact that it seems to be missing the point that drives the 99% movement – “the majority should not be suffering through pain and fear while a tiny percentage reaps huge rewards without risking their own”… Aside from the fact that they compare their situation, where many of them won the genetic […]

  • 99% Doesn't Hate Success

    “The 99% doesn’t hate success. On the contrary, they want the 1% to do well. They don’t want the 1% to do well at the cost of the 99%. Most likely, you are one debilitating sickness away from total financial ruin. If you are not self-employed, you are one round of layoffs or one branch […]

  • One Day I Can Drive As I Please

    “For many years my wife, who loves a garden, worked at making one with the help of two boys who used to come after school hours and one Saturdays. These boys came out of working-class homes, and were going to public schools and acquiring the psychology there officially imparted. My wife, curious about this, used […]

  • Elizabeth Warren's Second Choice

    My first choice is a strong consumer agency,” she said. “My second choice is no agency at all and plenty of blood and teeth left on the floor.” The Woman Who Knew Too Much, Vanity Fair

  • Unshared Gains

    “They all seem to believe have been taught that the Occupy Wall Street 99%ers are all looking for a free government hand out. They’re not. Also the historical self-made-grandparent stories are true only because workers between 1945 and 1975 received a fair share of their productivity.” Commenter on Metafilter

  • Can You Hold Down Four Jobs?

    “Do you really want to live in a society where just getting by requires a person to hold down two jobs and work 60 to 70 hours a week? Is that your idea of the American Dream? Do you really want to spend the rest of your life working two jobs and 60 to 70 […]

  • Class Warfare in 1358

    “This quote from Al Franken’s book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them is circulating around the web lately: “Any time that a liberal points out that the wealthy are disproportionately benefiting from Bush’s tax policies, Republicans shout, “class warfare!” In her book A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, Barbara Tuchman writes about […]