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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Corporations and Industry'
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
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
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 [...]
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
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
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
A Tariff Policy to Create Jobs
November 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Human Rights, jobs, Politics, Populism, taxes, The Budget
We need exports and imports. We need jobs. And we need more jobs than can be provided by exports. In other words,at a very minimum we need net exports. But we don’t have them. We have net imports. Here’s the problem. In 1993, we signed into law the North Amreican Free Trade Agreement. It broke [...]
Tags: Corporate Greed·free trade fallacies·imports from China·making things in China·Smoot-Hawley and its effect on the Great Depression·tariffs·tariffs to create jobs·the China game·The Greed of the Very Rich·trade deficits
Are the Republicans Really Fascists? A Comparison.
October 6th, 2011 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Labor, Politics, Populism, Science & Technology, Wall Street, wars and militarism
Anyone can call someone else a name. People call others Fascists or Nazis all the time on the Internet. People who have these little backwoods militia are often called Nazi-wannabees or actually in some cases call themselves Nazis. But the fact is that the term “Fascist” has a specific meaning. While Nazis were Fascists, many [...]
Tags: Are Republicans Fascists·Fascism·Fascism and Republicans·Fascism and the GOP·Fascism and the Neocons·Fascism and the Tea Party
Southerners Are Being Taken for a Ride
September 7th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Corporations and Industry, Economics, General, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism
The Republicans, and the Tea Party founders, the Koch Family and about 30 other millionaire donors are taking the South for a ride. People know about being “taken for a ride” in Chicago. You see, in Chicago, there were always some good boxers and a bunch of good football players. But, over time, there were [...]
Tags: claims about jobs in Texas·claims about the Texas Miracle·Governor Perry of Texas·minimum wage jobs·poverty by state·Southern bigotry·the Republican South·the South and jobs·the South and racism
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
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
Forward…to the New Clinton Era
August 9th, 2011 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, jobs, Lobbying, Politics, Populism, taxes, The Budget
It is time to push and push hard for Democratic reforms of government. We can return to an era when jobs were prolific and government was balanced. We can return to a period, not that long ago, when we all shared in the American dream. But first: A Prologue: The Bush-Cheney Administration did the following: [...]
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