Since 2008 and the onset of the Great Bush Depression, we have seen some of the most remarkable and inane economic theories ever proposed and some of the greatest revisions in economic history ever put upon the American People. For example, with 15 million people out of work and Europe on its back, many conservative [...]
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The Failure of Conservative Economics Part VI – Our Current Problems and Why
March 26th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Economics, Politics, Populism
We have talked about the problems with our economy. We have discussed how they have been caused by a cynical use of failed economic policies by Republican politicians backed by billionaires and giant corporations. But one person sticks out to us as analogous to the entire period of Neo-Conservative dominance of the weak American mind. [...]
Tags: Economics·national debt·Neoconservative·Politics·tax cuts for the rich·unemployment
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 Conservative Economics–Pt. IV–Bush, Cheney and Big Government by Debt
February 25th, 2013 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Democracy, Economics, jobs, Lobbying, Media, obstruction, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
In 1994, in an interview, Milton Friedman said that in the 1990s there is “much less optimism and all the problems have been produced by government.” This is the essential argument between the two political parties in the United States today. One pretends to be the party of Conservatives, whom they define as people like [...]
Tags: Bush·Cheney·Conservative·Economics·Friedman·Hayek·national debt·Neo-Classical·Neo-Fascist
Failure of Conservative Economics, Part III The Big Economic Lie
February 10th, 2013 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, General, Politics, Populism
No discussion of Conservative economics will be complete without a full analysis and review of the theories of Fredrich Hayek. Hayek was an Austrian economist who moved to England in the early 1930s and taught at the London School of Economics. The general tone of his work is that free competition in the marketplace and [...]
Tags: Capitalism·conservative economics·Economics·Neocon economics·Politics·Populism
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
Homeless in Seattle…and Lakewood…and Reno…and more…
August 28th, 2012 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, Human Rights, jobs
Tent cities are growing all over the country. Over 47 million people now live below the poverty line. There are growing numbers of tent cities, surrounding over 55 American metro areas. Hundreds live in squalor in the Taco Flats area of Fresno, California. Others live in tents in the woods near Ann Arbor, Michigan. On any [...]
Romney Has a Serious Problem. (short)
July 15th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, jobs, Politics, Populism, Wall Street
Mitt Romney is doing something that many candidates do when they are attacked, and especially when they are attacked with facts that are very difficult to deny. Romney has attacked those who are attacking him. And he has done another most telling thing. He has panicked. He ran immediately…immediately…to every media outlet that he knew [...]
ALEC and the Corporate Takeover of America
May 14th, 2012 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Fascism, Lobbying, Politics, Populism
Our government at local, state and national levels is being confiscated by huge corporations. It is happening every day in state legislatures all over the country. Our major corporations belong to a Right Wing organization called the American Legislative Exchange Council, more commonly known as ALEC. Their job is to advance their goals at the [...]
Tags: Corporatism·Neocons·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·Republican obstruction·Right Wing·Right Wing Propaganda
The Republican Recession and a Budget for Billionaires
April 3rd, 2012 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Politics, Populism, The Budget
How do we explain the tragic situation in which we now find the country? The simple way to explain it is to say that, particularly since 2001, the Republicans have cut taxes three (3) times and created two wars. They laid back on regulations allowing Wall Street to swindle millions of people out of thousands [...]
Tags: GOP Budget Cuts·the Great Bush Recession·the Great Republican National Debt·the Republican Budget Plan·the Republican deficits·the Ryan Budget
The Ryan Road to Ruin
March 28th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Economics, Health Care, Politics, Populism, Social Security, taxes, The Budget
Paul Ryan had the courage to put his name on a budget that was announced last week. This budget will change his image from one of a sincere, small town Republican congressman to that of a pandering, foolish, pretentious, faux-economic hack. His goal seems to be to move the country from Recession to Depression and [...]
Tags: Affordable Care Act·Obamacare·Paul Ryan·Republican obstruction·Tea Party Budget·the health care reform act·the Republican Budget Plan
Newt Gingrich’s Laughable Run for President
March 1st, 2012 · 3 Comments · Capitalism, Health Care, Lobbying, Politics, Populism, Social Security, taxes
Newt Gingrich is actually a pretty smart guy. He has a little bit of Reagan in him. He likes to entrance you with a story. But then you find out the story was just that…a story…fiction…unreality. His moderate intelligence is wistfully scattered like dandelion spores in the Autumn breeze among his confused and competing thoughts. [...]
Tags: Corporatism·Gingrich campaign·Gingrich Right Wing policies·Gingrich running for President·Health Care·health insurance industry·jobs·national debt·Neoconservative propaganda·Newt Gingrich·Politics·tax cuts for the rich·unemployment
The Son-in-law Senator from Wisconsin
February 23rd, 2012 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Economics, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes, The Budget
The nice thing about “stupid” is that you don’t have to make anything up or manipulate anything or try to exaggerate anything…stupid is as stupid does. Rarely, however, do public men who are so stupid that you wonder how they can tie their shoes allow their stupidity to show up in the clear, bright glare [...]
Tags: Bemis·Corporatism·Curwood·Neocons·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·PACUR·Republican obstruction·Right Wing Propaganda·Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin·tax cuts for the rich·tea party·tea party candidates·unemployment
Drilling Our Way to a Balanced Budget
February 10th, 2012 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, jobs, Politics, Populism, The Budget
The American Petroleum Instititute bankrolled a series of television commercials in which a very emphatic blonde parades through a series of set ups that exemplify the good things that come from their utopian idea of what drilling provides. There are no mentions of oil spills. There are no mentions of toxic air or water left [...]
Tags: Corporatism·drilling for oil·jobs from oil revenues to government·nationalize mining·nationalize natural gas drilling·nationalizing the oil industry·oil company profits·oil revenues·oil revenues to balance the budget·oil revenues to the government·one million jobs·public jobs in oil and natural gas drilling·U.S. oil resources