Dateline February 17, 2012 Los Angeles Times: “MSNBC’s Ed Schultz: A rare liberal success.”
Ed Schultz is a courageous angry-sounding news commentator who rails against the government, Congress and dastardly politicians. Ed criticizes Congress for not giving more help to the poor, the government for cutting off unemployment benefits, and politicians for pledging to dissolve unions. He is a champi…on for the poor and the middle class. Ed presents himself as the one true advocate for the working man, standing up for the unemployed and the middle class.
According to Michael Harrison, the publisher of Talkers, a Web site and magazine that follows talk radio, “Schultz has very intelligently aligned himself with the interests of large groups of piople in this country who have not been spoken for.”
Ed was a Republican until 2000 and his year’s as a conservative talk radio host helped him hone the combative personality that conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh are known for. According to the article, Schultz likes talking to working people. He has an understanding of how to connect with real people.
I see Ed Schultz as a potential advocate for broadened ownership of job-displacing technology and productive capital as a direction our country should embrace with the benefit of not only saving and creating jobs, but most importantly empowering the poor, working people and the middle class to over time benefit as owners in the American market-based economy with growing ownership stakes in a growth economy.
Schultz needs to realize that balancing mass productive power with mass purchasing power through a wage system is not the best course to continue on, given the endless scope of advanced technology applied to producing products and services. Such ignores the possibility of democratizing future ownership of labor-displacing productive capital technologies and rising ownership incomes as a market-generated means of eliminating wage slavery, welfare slavery, debt slavery and charity slavery for the 99 percent of humanity.
