Short Quiz – “A Special Place In Hell For” Thomas Friedman

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By the end of the first week of the monthly cycle (which is the deadline for obtaining six positive RSVP’s for the next meeting as our minimum quorum), Yours Truly has prepared The Short Quiz (or Two Short Quizzes if we are facing the once-per-quarter five-week gap between meetings).

And by that time, Yours Truly has also prepared The Suggested Answers (or has a good idea of what they will say).

This section contains, inter alia --

The First Short Quiz (entitled “A Special Place In Hell For” Thomas Friedman)

The Suggested Answers to the First Short Quiz

The Second Short Quiz (entitled “Thomas Friedman, Godfather of the 1%”)

The Suggested Answers to the Second Short Quiz

John Karls - 18 March 2017 2:30 am MDT
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Short Quiz – “A Special Place In Hell For” Thomas Friedman

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First Short Quiz
“A Special Place In Hell For” Thomas Friedman


1. Who was/is Madeleine Albright?

2. Was Madeleine Albright famous during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Primary Campaign for saying on 2/6/2016 while opposing Bernie Sanders and introducing Hillary Clinton to a crowd: “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other”?

3. As President Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State, did Madeleine Albright help him negotiate: (1) NAFTA -- aka the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement pursuant to which so many American jobs have been exported to Mexico; (2) a free-trade agreement with China -- pursuant to which so many American jobs have been exported to China, (3) the Worldwide Free Trade Agreement creating the World Trade Organization -- pursuant to which so many American jobs have been exported to third-world countries; and (4) approximately 300 additional free-trade agreements?

4. Have we often credited Bill Clinton and his 300-plus free-trade agreements as commencing what we have called the 25-year “War on American Workers”?

5. Have we always observed that the “War on American Workers” was conducted by “The Establishment” which we defined as the billionaires who “own” virtually all the pols of both political parties as a result of campaign contributions and who “own” many members of the media and who “own” many members of academia?

6. And in addition have we always recognized that the War on American Workers also takes the form of Importing Illegal Aliens to compete for American jobs that cannot be exported geographically?

7. And haven’t we studied on those numerous occasions how Illegal Aliens are de facto slaves because their labor is NOT subject to any minimum-wage laws as a practical matter because (A) employers are free to deduct from the minimum wage whatever they please for meals and housing, and (B) illegal aliens cannot, as a practical matter, complain about anything for fear their employers will report them to Immigration?

8. And didn’t Bill Clinton refuse (as did Presidents Bush and Obama following his example) to enforce The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 on which the ink had barely dried? And which made it a crime for employers to hire illegal immigrants and made it a crime for anyone (not just employers) to assist illegal immigrants?

9. And haven’t we always recognized that unless action is taken, the War on American Workers will not end until American wages have been driven down to third-world poverty levels, since it is impoverished third-world workers who are being given the American jobs? And in fact these third-world poverty levels include child labor, no workplace safety rules and, for manufacturing, no environmental rules?

10. And although Madeleine Albright was not a co-conspirator since it did NOT involve foreign policy, did Bill Clinton famously claim to have “ended welfare as we know it” -- to use his famous 1996 re-election campaign slogan for having fought for his 1992 campaign promise to extract from Congress the bill (which he signed in August 1996) abolishing the 61-year-old program of “Aid to Families With Dependent Children”?

11. So shouldn’t there be “A Special Place In Hell” for Bill Clinton who was often called the most conservative U.S. President since Franklin Roosevelt?

12. And shouldn’t there be “A Special Place In Hell” for Madeleine Albright for her part in perpetrating and assisting Bill Clinton in his “War on American Workers”?

13. Isn’t Thomas Friedman, in “Thank You For Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide To Thriving in an Age of Accelerations,” really describing the effects of The Establishment’s War on American Workers?

14. In describing action that must be taken by individuals and their parents in order to cope with “The War on American Workers” isn’t Thomas Friedman acting as “The Godfather of the 1%”?

15. Didn’t Bill Clinton, as President, at least have the decency to say that it was the responsibility of the Federal Government to re-train and re-educate American workers whose jobs HE EXPORTED so that they could cope with “The War on American Workers”?

16. Was Bill Clinton sincere in fighting for Federal Government programs to actually do the re-training and re-educating of American workers?

17. So why is Thomas Friedman changing Bill Clinton’s false promise of Federal Government programs to re-train and re-educate the casualties of “The War on American Workers” to a Darwinian “survival of the fittest” jungle in which there is no help for the casualties of “The War on American Workers”?

18. And why does Thomas Friedman think that his New World Order does NOT comprise (my description) the rest of the world as an old-fashioned slave plantation? While in America there exists simultaneously both the 1% that run the foreign slave plantation (and the health-care workers who tend the needs of the 1%) -- and a greatly enlarged Permanent “Untouchable” Under-Caste?

19. Shouldn’t there be “A Special Place In Hell” for Thomas Friedman as “The Godfather Of The 1%”?

20. Was Thomas Friedman personally responsible for refusing to permit $84 billion of private funds to be used to provide a program of tutoring/mentoring for 10 million inner-city children as they progressed from third grade through high school graduation, with a guarantee of college tuition?

21. So isn’t Thomas Friedman personally responsible for perpetuating what we have often observed is America’s 30% Permanent “Untouchable” Under-Caste?

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