There is one simple and secure way to jump start the economy and sustain it over a decade. That one simple idea is to nationalize the natural gas industry. In fact, not only is it good in a positive way, but the nationalization of the production and distribution of natural gas will prevent a negative…the [...]
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Nationalize Natural Gas Production and Save America.
December 21st, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, energy, jobs, Politics, Populism, The Budget
Tags: Economics·energy policy·fracking·natural gas·the national debt
Let’s Talk About the National Budget.
May 21st, 2011 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, energy, jobs, Politics, taxes, Wall Street, wars and militarism
Phony baloney. Just like Walker in Wisconsin, the talk about “austerity” is a bunch of rich white men talking bull shit about what needs to be done. We don’t need austerity. Not the kind the Republicans are talking about. We need prosperity. You see, the problem with the United States right now is that we [...]
Tags: austerity federal budget·budget cuts·Medicare·raising taxes on the rich·Social Security·tax cuts·taxes
National Debt Solution: Create Jobs. Repeal Tax Cuts. Nationalize Energy
May 16th, 2011 · Comments Off · Economics, energy, Politics, taxes
It is time for a reality check. It is far beyond time for a reality check. We are standing on the edge of a giant precipice and we are about to fall out of the kind of society that we have built over about 250 years. We are about to fall into the abyss of [...]
Tags: budget cuts·jobs·nationalize energy·oil and gas drilling·outsourced jobs·Republican tax cuts
Don’t Think “Green Energy;” Think Green Jobs.
June 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Economics, energy, jobs, Politics, taxes
We have a couple of pieces of legislation in that great frozen melting pot called a Senate that deserve your attention and, frankly, the passage of which deserve a march on Washington. The Great Bush-Cheney Energy Deregulation Oil Spill and the lack of meaningful jobs in a sputtering and failing economy dictate that we look [...]
Tags: alternative sources of energy·clean energy programs·energy independence·green energy jobs·inheritance taxes·jobs·unemployment
Disaster in West Virginia
June 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, energy, Human Rights, Politics, Populism
There is no way to discuss oil spills without stopping to make a comment or two on the crime, the rape of the Appalachian mountains for coal. Mountain Top Removal, so specific a technique that it has its own name, not just a description is so devastating that environmentalists commonly refer to it simply as [...]
Tags: coal corporation lobbying·coal in electrical generation·Coal lobbyists·dangerous mining practices·Massey Coal·Massey Energy·mining·mining lobbyists·mining risks·Mountain Top Removal·MTR·reckless mining·utility companies·utility company lobbyists
Here’s How Right Wing Obstruction Affects You Personally.
June 10th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Economics, energy, Health Care, jobs, Lobbying, Politics, taxes, Wall Street
Life is not a newsreel, someone once said. It is not a sound bite. It is not the mere reporting of Republican Reich Wing obstruction. It is real life–life and death, injury and loss, jobs and unemployment, homes and homelessness, wealth and poverty. There are 290 bills passed by the House of Representatives pending in [...]
Tags: Democratic legislation·House of Representatives·Nancy Pelosi·Neocon obstruction·Republican obstruction·Senate filibusters·Senate obstruction·Senator McConnell
State of the Nation — June 2010
June 4th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, energy, jobs, Lobbying, Media, Politics, taxes
Where are we? We’ve got a bunch of tea party nuts…let’s be frank…running around saying that the country is becoming a fascist sate and another segment of the same nuts or even those same nuts themselves contradicting what they just said by saying we’re becoming Communist or Socialist. It’s difficult even to explain, let alone [...]
Tags: Corporatism·jobs·Liberal and progressive legislation·Lobbying·Neoconservative obstruction·Republican lies·Senate Republican obstruction·taxes·unions
Using Public Jobs to Stimulate Private Enterprise
May 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Economics, energy, jobs, Populism
During the Presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama said he would spend $210 to create 5 million jobs. This was something like 500,000 jobs a year over ten years. In green jobs and in construction related to green jobs and infrastructure. And that’s nice. But we need 5 million jobs now. NOW. And here’s how we [...]
Tags: developing private industry jobs·economic development·economic recovery·economic stimulus·growing the economy·jobs·manufacturing in the U.S.·public jobs·stimulus
Debts, Lies and Obstructionism
May 12th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, energy, Politics
No mistake about it. We are in crisis mode. No matter what the stock market or the boys knocking down millions on Wall Street say…we are in an economic crisis. And we are in a political crisis. We have trillions of debt that we need to pay off. We owe about $12.8 trillion of which [...]
Tags: corporate lobbyists·lobbyists·Neocon Republican obstruction·Republican obstruction
Facts About Global Warming
April 26th, 2010 · Comments Off · Culture, energy, General, International affairs, Science & Technology
The fact is that the earth is warming. Glaciers are melting, and most importantly, the earth’s weather patterns are beginning to change. Northwest United States, which in some parts had over 150 glaciers in the early 1910s, now has less than 40. Some areas of the Arctic ocean that had been impassable now can be [...]
Tags: cap and trade·carbon dioxide·carbon emissions·climate change·climate stabilization·effects of increased temperatures·global warming
Truth or Consequences
April 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · energy, Health Care, jobs, Media, Politics, wars and militarism
In the great annals of our entertainment history, after radio became a staple of daily listening and then later television, there was a program many people have heard of called “Truth or Consequences.” The idea apparently was that if you didn’t answer a question properly there was some kind of consequence, undoubtedly something silly, something [...]
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The Grim State of the Nation
February 24th, 2010 · Comments Off · Culture, Economics, energy, Health Care, jobs, Politics
As we are about to enter the third month of 2010, the nation is in its worst financial and economic condition since, perhaps, 1939. We have large-scale unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcies, homelessness, hunger, lack of living essentials, and many working families with huge credit card debt. The Neoconservative Republicans who control the Republican Party, have decided [...]
Tags: clean energy·economy·energy·food banks·Health Care·health care lobby·health care reform·homelessness·hunger·jobs·reconciliation·Rupert Murdoch·stimulus·Supreme Court·tea parties·tent cities·unemployment·unemployment insurance
EXXON or Cap-and-trade? Higher-Gas Prices or a Million New Jobs?
December 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, energy, Politics
EXXON Oil Corporation has very profitable sales of about $1 billion per day. It also spends more than any other corporation trying to prevent alternative energy. The excess profits you pay in gas prices…buys all the latest alternative technology. They’re hedging their bets. They want gasoline at exorbitant prices and then they want to own [...]
Tags: anti-global warming scientists·clean energy·EXXON·gasoline prices·global warming·global warming deniers