Do you have a utility bill or a credit card bill that’s going to cost you extra if you don’t get it there on time? It costs you that because businesses like utilities and financial institutions make part of their income by doing things on time. You are asked, even warned, to make your payment [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Capitalism'
ALEC’s Plan to Take Over State Governments
September 28th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Lobbying, Politics, Populism
The economic problems of the United States are not complicated nor are they insolvable. They are the result of actions taken by a few in Congress at the behest of a smaller group yet who have been able to buy government. So, we, as citizens in much larger numbers, can correct this mistake by voting [...]
Tags: ALEC and collective bargaining·ALEC and cutting state health care·ALEC's Plan to take over state governments·cutting state government·Republican governors·The Corporations fund ALEC legislation for states
To Find a Job, Fire a Republican
September 23rd, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, jobs, Politics, Populism, taxes
————————————————————————— Remember the goal: 220-60-1 for 2012. Two-hundred and twenty Democratic House Members, Sixty solid Liberal Democratic Senators and a Democratic President. This is the minimum we need to create jobs, restore economic balance, create a secure social safety net, affordable health care and balance our budget. If we do not achieve this, we face…literally [...]
Tags: creating jobs·how to create more jobs·jobs·Neocon plans to kill social security and medicare·playing politics with jobs·Republican Congress obstructing jobs
Why Regulations Are Important
September 5th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, jobs, Labor, Lobbying, Politics, Populism
Rusty Billingsley was an ironworker who loved horses and loved his job. He was employed at the massive Las Vegas City Center project, a two-year, $9.2 billion development, the largest privately funded real estate development in this country’s history. Billingsly was sober, skilled, healthy, agile, and highly trained. He was welding a piece of reinforcement [...]
Tags: anti-regulation atmosphere·construction deaths·corporate anti-regulatory plan·dangers in the workplace·Neocon anti-regulation agenda·Neocon obstruction of regulations·OSHA failures·Republican anti-regulation agenda·Republican anti-worker agenda·why regulations are important·workers rights
Fascists Pretending to be Patriots.
August 30th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Health Care, Politics, Populism
When we come across a video like the one below, we must expose it. We do not understand why a former Lt. General in the United States Army would make such a scurrilous video…whether he is a racist, or a Right Winger working for the global corporate interests who want to destroy the American way [...]
Tags: Communism·marxism·Rick Perry's supporters·Right Wing Crazies shouting Marxism·Right Wing Propaganda·Right Wing Religious Propaganda·Texas Religious nut propaganda
Class Warfare…The Battle to Destroy the Middle Class
August 22nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism
A dentist from Naperville, Illinois called a talk show in Chicago. “I’ve invested $400,000 in starting a dental practice and the government won’t let me do it.” “What?” says the host, “The government? What do you mean?” “I’m competing with the government for workers. I’m looking to hire several people at $25 an hour and [...]
Tags: class warfare by the Right·Republican class warfare·the Neocon attitude toward workers·the Republican Rich·The Super-Rich·unemployment·unions·wages
Taxes and Stimuli, 101
August 15th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Politics, Populism, taxes, The Budget
So many stupid theories abound today, tossed back and forth between the billionaire-paid politicians and their paid think-tank economists, that it is hard to go a single day without shaking your head so hard that your hat falls off. The fact is that there are always only two explanations. Let me explain the two explanations [...]
Tags: Clinton economy·Clinton jobs·Holtz-Eakin lies·jobs·Neocon lies·Republican tax cuts·tax cuts·tax cuts and jobs·tax increases
Capitalism Versus Patriotism
July 31st, 2011 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Politics, Populism, taxes, The Budget
American workers have been kicked around by industry for about 30 solid years now. Unions have been crushed, jobs sent to India and China despite the fact that American workers are more educated, have moved to find jobs as often as possible. In the meantime, health insurance companies have left 47 million mostly middle and [...]
Tags: Economics·jobs·Neocon obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·Right Wing
How Republicans Took Your Job and How You Can Get It Back!
July 12th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Labor, Politics, Populism
We rattle on, debating the Fascists about whether we should cut this or tax that….Congress and the President drone on and on. Lobbyists come and go in their $40,000 automobiles and their $2,000 suits and eat at $500 a plate fund raisers for cretins who will destroy the country. And the people go without jobs. [...]
Tags: Boehner's anti-jobs plan·GOP Anti-jobs agenda·McConnell's racist anti-Obama campaign·Neoconservative obstruction·Republican obstruction·Republicans' job killing filibusters
Overturning the Republican Lie Machine
June 27th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Health Care, Lobbying, Politics, Populism
The facts about austerity are incontrovertible. There is every good reason to generate more income and not cut entitlement programs. Do NOT let the Right Wing media,which is most television media, persuade you to give in to cutting social services. Ronald Reagan put people onto the streets. There were days in the 1980s that you [...]
Tags: alternatives to budget cutting·health insurance industry lies·killing Social Security·Neoconservative lies·Republican lies·Republican lies about austerity·saving Medicare and Social Security·the truth about Obamacare
Tax the Rich and Balance the Budget.
June 25th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, jobs, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
The very wealthy on Wall Street and their political arm, the Neoconservative Republican Party got us into this horrific Recession. Teachers didn’t do it. Nurses didn’t do it. The poor who wanted to own homes and were sold fake mortgages by unscrupulous real estate mortgage brokers didn’t do it. Wall Street, with the active participation [...]
Tags: cutting government·cutting government spending·cutting the military budget·improving Medicare·increasing taxes on corporations·increasing taxes on the rich·Right Wing Neocon policies·saving Medicare and Medicaid·saving Social Security·tax breaks for the rich·taxing the rich
First Big Emergency of Many. Better Read This!
June 15th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Capitalism, Politics
Normally only idiotic and venal Senator John Kyl of Arizona, while Mexicans are climbing over the garden walls in Tucson and he is fiddling (or “diddling” ?) away his time in Washington, has said…pay attention now…that the Republicans will not raise the debt ceiling without dollar-for-dollar cuts in government spending. What this means is all [...]
Tags: budget debt ceiliing·depression·raising the debt ceiling·recession·what happens if we don't raise the debt ceiling
Revolution!
May 10th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, Politics
Let’s be very clear. We could very well be on the edge of revolution. The Republican Party, which now controls the House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, the Governorships of 39 states is trying to take this country into total Depression. A full-on Depression, which would almost certainly follow a failure to increase the debt [...]
Tags: a second depression·debt limit ceiling·financial catastrophe·no debt ceiling increase·revolt·Revolution·Tea Party debt ceiling·Tea Party economic plans
On Raising Taxes and Restoring the Dream
April 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Politics, taxes, Wall Street
We have all benefited from lower taxes in the years since 1980. So we can’t simply say that the rich have benefited. We all have lower taxes than we otherwise would. Of course, the more money you make, the more you are taxed. So the rich, even at these lower rates, pay more by far [...]
Tags: balancing the budget·growing the economy·jobs·Neocon budget proposals·Obama budget proposals·tariffs and trade·tax cuts·tax increases
Americans Want Jobs, Not Cuts in Medicare or Medicaid
April 16th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, Lobbying, Politics, Populism, Wall Street, wars and militarism
Most people will tell you that they are angry with the President. They were angry with the President in 2010 when they voted for 29 Republican governors, Republican governors who—the idiots should have known—are about to destroy collective bargaining for public workers, like teachers, firefighters and police, drop millions of Americans off Medicaid, and eliminate [...]
Tags: a Populist jobs program·Democratic job creation·jobs·Neocon obstructionism·Neocon racism·Republican bigots·Republican obstructionism·Wall Street bankers