There is an ongoing petulant argument being carried out in what one might call the economic and political press. Should we cut government which will supposedly make us leaner and meaner and more ready to expand our economy? Or should we create more jobs, try to jump start the economy, create public jobs and revenues [...]
Entries Tagged as 'ALEC'
Starting Over in the New World
April 25th, 2013 · Comments Off · ALEC, Economics, Politics, Populism
The Failure of Conservative Economics Part V – The Bush-Cheney Depression
March 14th, 2013 · Comments Off · ALEC, Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Media, Politics, Populism, The Budget
The United States has been in decline since 1981. That was when Ronald Reagan’s charismatic personality took over the country. Reagan was the all-time, All-American, schoolboy President. The gosh-golly-gee whiz President came to power overwhelmed by the more sophisticated long-range plans of the Corporatists. They saw his gullibility and his charm as an opening to [...]
Tags: conservatism·Economics·Neo-Fascism·Neoconservatism·Republican obstruction
Time Out –A Look at the Republican Non-budget
March 12th, 2013 · Comments Off · ALEC, Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Politics, Populism, Social Security, taxes, The Budget
Before we can return to the Failure of Conservative Economics, we must address a current issue on today’s Neo-Conservative agenda…the Paul Ryan Republican Budget for 2013. We need to examine the premises here and debunk the stuff that is simply wrong. Paul Ryan announced the Republican Budget on March 12, 2013 and it fell with [...]
Tags: Corporatism·Economics·Health Care·national debt·Neoconservative·Politics·Republican Budget·Right Wing Propaganda·Ryan Budget·Social Security·taxes
The Failure of Conservatism and the Future of American Economics. Part I
January 8th, 2013 · Comments Off · ALEC, Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Labor, Lobbying, obstruction, Politics, Populism, Social Security, taxes, The Budget, Wall Street, wars and militarism
In 1946, in the shadow of the carillon tower on the campus of the University of Chicago, an economist by the name of Milton Friedman began teaching economics to some of the brightest students in the country. His particular approach to economics was by and large what might be called neo-classical liberalism. It is a [...]
Tags: conservatism·conservative economics·Corporatism·Economics·lobbyists·Milton Friedman·national debt·Neoclassical Liberalism·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·Politics·Republican obstruction·Social Security·tax cuts for the rich·unemployment
Why We Need Unions
December 19th, 2012 · Comments Off · ALEC, Corporations and Industry, Labor, Lobbying, Politics, Populism
There are a lot of people today who do not understand the history and the purpose of unions. And that is very important. Very important. The reason is as the old saying goes…”Just because I am paranoid does not mean that there are not people out to get me.” And what does that mean? It [...]
Tags: Corporatism·jobs·lobbyists·Neoconservative propaganda·Right Wing Propaganda·unemployment·unions
Republicans Oppose Obamacare…and the Middle Class
November 29th, 2012 · Comments Off · ALEC, Fascism, Health Care, Lobbying, obstruction, Politics, Populism, Social Security, taxes
For years, even decades, the health insurance industry has run medicine in this country. Health insurance is basically when a corporation gets between you and your doctor and tells your doctor if he can perform a procedure to improve your health or in some cases save your life. You pay for health insurance but you [...]
Tags: health care lobby·health care reform·health insurance industry·Obamacare implementation hampered by Republican governors·Republican Governors delay health insurance exchanges·Republican Governors obstruct Obamacare·The Affordable Care Act
A Formula for Democratic Victory Using the Swing States
July 24th, 2012 · Comments Off · ALEC, Politics, Populism
In the United States today, the political map is very brightly and distinctly colored red and blue. The blue states run along both seaboards and in the upper Midwest. The red states are clearly the old slave states and segregation states of the traitorous Confederacy, and whose defiant response to their humiliating and impoverishing defeat [...]
Tags: 2012 Presidential Camaign·Candidate Obama·Democratic Congressional elections 2012·Election 2012·Senate electoral campaign 2012·swing states
How Conservatism Becomes Fascism
June 23rd, 2012 · 2 Comments · ALEC, Democracy, Fascism, Human Rights, jobs, Lobbying, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes
In 1946, in one of the great cosmopolitan cities of Europe, ancient and yet contemporary, with a tradition of culture, music, popular culture and modern art, an old woman, dressed in a ragged coat, with an old woolen bandana wrapped around her head dragged a small cart down the street. The formerly popular neighborhood was [...]
Tags: ALEC·ALEC's paid legislators·Corporatism·lobbyists·national debt·Neo-Fascism·Neo-Fascist Republicans·Neoconservative propaganda·Republican obstruction·Right Wing·Right Wing Propaganda·tax cuts for the rich·Tea Party Fascists
The Scott Walker Story
May 21st, 2012 · 2 Comments · ALEC, Corporations and Industry, Democracy, Fascism, Human Rights, jobs, Labor, Lobbying, Politics, Populism
Being fair to Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin is very difficult. It is like trying to be fair in analyzing the administration of Benito Mussolini. There is so much on the negative side and so little on the positive side that it is extraordinarily difficult to be objective. We will try to give his side [...]
Tags: ALEC·ALEC corporate legislation·ALEC lobbyists·corrupt state legislators·Governor Scott Walker·Neo-Fascist corporations·Scot Walker of Wisconsin·Scott Walker Fascist state government·the Right Wing·Tom Barrett·Wisconsin recall election