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Entries Tagged as 'Corporations and Industry'

The Catastrophic Failure of the American Spirit

May 1st, 2011 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Human Rights, Politics

Today is one of the saddest days in the history of the American Republic. Americans proved that they have failed in maintaining the spirit of communal support that built this country. We have clearly failed when tested. The Rich have taken control, just as Jefferson and Adams and George Washington feared could happen. Democrats in [...]

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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 [...]

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Republicans Are Corporatists–Not Populists!

March 17th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Corporations and Industry, Labor, Lobbying, Politics, Populism

One of the numerous Right Wing propaganda posts is called the “Patriot Post” by someone or some people who use the pseudonym “Sartre.” That in itself is hilarious. That could be an entire stand-up comedy routine. Nevertheless, “Sartre” writes a page or so about what he or they know of Populism. It is actually about [...]

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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 [...]

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Junior (Senator) Goes to Washington

November 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Corporations and Industry, Lobbying, Politics, taxes

New (Junior) Senator Mark Kirk from Illinois made an interesting statement now that he is in political power for 6 years, unless impeached or recalled or…whatever. That statement contradicts the overall attitude of the State of Lincoln and Percy, and Dirksen and Simon and Durgin and Obama. Kirk’s attitude mirrors that of Goldwater, Reagan and, [...]

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Sean and the Great Republican Propaganda Machine

November 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Media, Politics, taxes

Today, we hear from a paid Republican blogger who comments on Dr. Paul Krugman’s blog: “Conscience of a Liberal.” This clown is one of several obviously paid bloggers who seem to be on the blog almost daily spouting ridiculous comments, distracting references, insults, pathetic attempts at ridicule—and in all cases comments intending merely to disrupt [...]

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Understanding Political Reality

November 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Corporations and Industry, Health Care, Lobbying, Media, Politics

Life is not a game show. The realities of electing the moronic, semi-troglodytic President’s son as President…or having the Supreme-Court-justice son of a rumored Fascist appoint him…should have proved that. From $5 trillion in debt and a balanced budget to a $14 trillion in debt and a commission trying to figure out how to keep [...]

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The Truth About George Soros…And Other Matters

October 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Lobbying, Media, Politics

George Soros is in the news these days because, in 2004, he bankrolled a considerable part of the effort to contain the horrendous, near-cataclysmic Bush Republican agenda of free-lance war and devastation and American money markets run amok. And because he has continued to financially support other causes regarding freedom of speech and truth in [...]

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Glenn Beck: Clown Prince of Propaganda

October 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Media, Politics

There is always a question whether or not to give any kind of attention to the show-off–the kid who acts out in class because he doesn’t get enough attention at home. The kid whom everyone shuns either withdraws into his shell or becomes the one who disrupts things for others. Not necessarily the funny kid, [...]

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A Proven 80-year-old Plan for Recovery

September 5th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Labor, Media, Politics, Wall Street

The American People, according to polls, have now floundered their way into a strong majority willing to literally destroy their lives and those of their children. The latest polls show many Right Wing Republicans ahead in the polls. This is beyond stupidity. If the Republicans were advocating a return to moderation, one might think that, [...]

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The Grand Illusion, Part II

September 1st, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Lobbying, Media, Politics, taxes

Part II — Who is telling all those lies…and why? They met on the mall in Washington, that renowned place for great assemblies. They were baby-boomers and beyond and overwhelmingly white. (Maybe when you call a Liberal African-American President, raised by white grandparents a ‘racist” as Glenn Beck did, you may turn away people of [...]

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The Grand Illusion

August 30th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Lobbying, Media, Politics

Part I – Looming disaster and how we got here The Tea Party Movement is neither a movement nor has it anything to do with the traditions of freedom represented by the American Revolution. It is in fact, ironically, about the impulse of an uneducated and badly led society to permit the restriction of its [...]

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Restoring Honor? How About Restoring Sanity?

August 28th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Media, Politics, Wall Street

It is probably not a good idea to give any publicity to this inane plan of Glenn Beck’s to hold a “Restoring Honor” meeting at the Washington Mall but it is an appropriate starting point. Glenn Beck is probably the most vocal and radical–some, many, say crazy–commentator on the Obama Administration’s policies. He literally has [...]

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Creating Jobs in the United States

August 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, jobs, Labor, Media, Politics

There are several problems with the current jobs situation and those are in addition to the fact that one out of approximately 8 people you see walking down the street is either unemployed or has only a part-time job. Of course, for some people, the idea of a part-time job is difficult to imagine, as [...]

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Neocons and Neo-Fascists in the Global Village

July 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Corporations and Industry, Culture, International affairs, Lobbying, Politics, Populism, Wall Street, wars and militarism

What is America? Is it merely a flag? Is it an armed force, with tanks and guns and planes? After all, that’s what many people see in villages around the world. That’s what simple groups of small villagers saw in Iraq…people with no television, no media elite, no sophisticated intellectual government in their region to [...]

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