This is a country that has created some of the greatest industries and the greatest fortunes in the history of the world. In 1883 Thomas Edison and many others began the age of electricity, lighting homes and powering the enormous scope of machines, appliances and useful devices. By the turn of the 21st Century we [...]
Entries from October 28th, 2011
Neocon Corporate Moguls Attack Middle Class Workers
February 27th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Education, Labor, Politics, Wall Street
Tags: Attacking the Middle Class·Corporate America·Koch Industries·Neocon Billionaires·Sendign jobs overseas·workers rights
Rumsfeld Running Scared
February 24th, 2011 · Comments Off · International affairs, Politics, wars and militarism
Apparently Donald Rumsfeld, looking out at the future, seeing unrest everywhere, knowing that that the world is changing, wants to deflect some of the enormous responsibility he shares for the deaths of 4,500 Americans, deaths of at least a quarter of a million Iraqis, and the displacement and ruin of several million Iraqi lives. So, [...]
Tags: Colin Powell·Donald Rumsfeld·impeach Bush·the Iraq War·war criminals
State Debt Problems: Rich Teachers, Super-wealthy Firemen, Nurses, Cops!
February 22nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Economics, Labor, Politics
A man of little intellect and loud voice speaks from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. He shouts at the camera from the hectic trading floor, with little knowledge outside of that arena but with monumental opinion. His name is Ric Santelli and while the market was collapsing and leaving us in the [...]
Tags: arbitration·cops·firemen·John Kasich·nurses·public employee unions·Scott Walker·teacher benefits·teacher unions·teachers·union busting governors·Wisconsin teachers' strike·workers rights
Reagan the Best President? Not Even Close.
February 21st, 2011 · Comments Off · Politics
Reagan the best President? This recent Gallup poll may be the poll to end all polls…literally. It may only prove that people in the United States in 2011 have no idea what is going on here or in the rest of the world. They must be so busy with chaff like “American Idol” or “Survivor…Downtown [...]
Tags: corruption in the Reagan Administration·Reagan·Reagan and unions·Ronald Reagan
Union-busting in Wisconsin
February 18th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Human Rights, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism
There is a strong game plan abroad in the land to bust unions. Most unions these days are for government workers. So the new Neocon Republican governors are out to break those unions, in Ohio, and New Jersey and Florida, and most prominently in Wisconsin. Governor Scott Walker the Governor of Wisconsin only since November [...]
Tags: attacks on public employee unions·Charles Koch·Governor Chris Christie·Governor John Kasich·Governor Rick Scott·Governor Scott Walker·health benefits·Karl Rove·Koch Industries·Neocons·penalizing teachers and government workers.·public employee unions penalized·state deficits·teacher unions·teachers·union-busting
Imported Americans — Part Two
February 17th, 2011 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Human Rights, Politics, Populism
The turn of the century saw the African American as largely uneducated, not owning the place he lived, without education, working as a sharecropper or on a tenant farm or in some menial job. While the second half of the 20th Century would see major improvements in voting rights, job opportunities, social services and particularly [...]
Tags: Neocons·Neoconservatives·Right Wing·slavery·tea party·union-busting·wage slaves
Imported Americans — Part I
February 15th, 2011 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Human Rights, Politics
We don’t talk much about our Imported Americans. Yes, they have been here almost as long as our Native Americans. They hold an equally sainted place in our memory, the long suffering, the noble, the faithful, the underpaid, abused and isolated. The genuine smile, the graceful politeness, the relaxed demeanor, tipping their hats to women…all [...]
Tags: Billionaire Tax Cuts·Neocons·slavery·the Old South·wage slaves·White Supremacy
Laffer Is Laughable…But It’s Not Funny.
February 10th, 2011 · Comments Off · Politics, taxes, Wall Street
Does anyone believe that Arthur Laffer, Ronald Reagan’s guru, the author and prime suspect in the catastrophe known as “voodoo economics” is really an economist? He does. And after years of hard work–economics is not bean bags;there are equations and charts and calculations, and sticking your neck out to make projections–he deserves to consider himself [...]
Tags: annual deficits·Arthur Laffer·national debt·Neocon policies·Ronald Reagan·tax cuts
The Reagan Legacy
February 9th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, Politics
The American scene has changed since 1980 and not for the better. What is our biggest problem today? That’s right: the national debt. Everything to do with the national debt goes back to Ronald Reagan. And it is much more complex and sinister than just the numbers, which themselves are staggering. From the end of [...]
Tags: national debt·Neocon economics·Neocon politics·Reagan deficits·Reaganomics·Ronald Reagan·tax cuts for the rich·the Reagan Legacy
Americans Do Want Health Care Reform.
February 6th, 2011 · Comments Off · Health Care, Politics
Here’s the problem with the Neocon Republicans’ argument about health care. The fact is that their argument is simply a lie. It’s a big lie, but it’s a simple lie. The lie is this: health care reform is bad for America. It isn’t. It is good, very good, for most Americans. Here are the ones [...]
Tags: Health Care·health care reform·Health industry lobbying·health insurance premiums·Neocon obstruction of health care reform·Obamacare·Republicans and health insurance lobbyists
Fair and Unbalanced
February 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Culture, Politics
People want us to be fair and impartial. Not seeing conspiracies behind every voting booth. So perhaps we can attempt to be fair and yet firm. That’s what we’ll be from now on. We’ll let the videos show you how preposterous are some of the statements by the talking heads. If you are perceptive, as [...]
Tags: Glenn Beck·Koch Industries·Neocon politics·neocon propaganda·Neoconservative politics·the Right Wing rich
Peace and Expansion Versus War and Destitution
February 1st, 2011 · 4 Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Politics, wars and militarism
We live in a world of political chaos. The single most important problem we face is the ascendancy of the rich. In itself, there is nothing wrong with becoming both rich and powerful, so long as society has sufficient methods and men of integrity to act as a check on that power. So now we [...]
Tags: Bill Gates·Bush and Cheney·Bush's war in Iraq·Cheney and Halliburton·Clinton era economics·Halliburton fraud·Iraq war·Liberal economic expansion·Liberal economics·war contractors