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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Human Rights'
A Tariff Policy to Create Jobs
November 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Human Rights, jobs, Politics, Populism, taxes, The Budget
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
The Post Office and Republican Treachery
September 30th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Culture, Economics, Human Rights, Lobbying, Politics, Populism
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 [...]
Tags: Darryl Issa wants to close the Post Office·Neocons privatizing the post office·Republicans fighting unions·Republicans want to bring down the post office
The Massacre of the Middle Class
May 7th, 2011 · Comments Off · Human Rights, Labor, Politics, Populism
In 2010, Americans were actually called upon to vote whether or not they would like to create an oligarchy, a ruling elite, that would remove all political power from the average citizen. In some states they voted to do it. Now some are saying that they made a mistake and want a do-over. In Wisconsin, [...]
Tags: Fascists·Neocon-Fascists·Neocons·Republican governors·Republican Right Wing lies·the characteristics of Fascism
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 [...]
Tags: greed·lobbyists·political propaganda·Right Wing Propaganda·the American Spirit·the American voter·the lessons of history·The Super-Rich·wars
On Nazis, Fascists, Neocons and Republican Governors
April 26th, 2011 · Comments Off · Human Rights, Labor, Politics, Populism, Wall Street, wars and militarism
Often in blog posts on the Internet, especially heated political arguments, people start slinging around the term “Nazi,” particularly in discussions of Neoconservative Republicans. Neocons are not “Nazis.” They are in fact “Fascists.” A fascist is one who combines the power of industry, government and the military into totalitarian…total…political control. The Nazis were a Fascist-leaning [...]
Tags: attacks on collective bargaining·attacks on labor unions·Fascist Neoconservative tactics·John Kasich·Neocon governors·Neoconservative Republicans·Republican governors·Rick Scott·Rick Snyder·Scott Walker
Neocon Scare Tactics on Solvent Social Security
March 4th, 2011 · Comments Off · Human Rights, Politics
Let’s start with a couple of important facts. If we did not have Social Security, virtually every other retired person today would be in deep poverty, even–one might say–begging on the streets. Compared with 1959, when about 35% of those of retirement age were in deep poverty, today only 9% of Americans fall into that [...]
Tags: cuts to Social Security·Neon plans to drain social security·Republican plans to cut Social Security·Social Security
Union-busting in Wisconsin
February 18th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Human Rights, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism
There is a strong game plan abroad in the land to bust unions. Most unions these days are for government workers. So the new Neocon Republican governors are out to break those unions, in Ohio, and New Jersey and Florida, and most prominently in Wisconsin. Governor Scott Walker the Governor of Wisconsin only since November [...]
Tags: attacks on public employee unions·Charles Koch·Governor Chris Christie·Governor John Kasich·Governor Rick Scott·Governor Scott Walker·health benefits·Karl Rove·Koch Industries·Neocons·penalizing teachers and government workers.·public employee unions penalized·state deficits·teacher unions·teachers·union-busting
Imported Americans — Part Two
February 17th, 2011 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Human Rights, Politics, Populism
The turn of the century saw the African American as largely uneducated, not owning the place he lived, without education, working as a sharecropper or on a tenant farm or in some menial job. While the second half of the 20th Century would see major improvements in voting rights, job opportunities, social services and particularly [...]
Tags: Neocons·Neoconservatives·Right Wing·slavery·tea party·union-busting·wage slaves
Imported Americans — Part I
February 15th, 2011 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Human Rights, Politics
We don’t talk much about our Imported Americans. Yes, they have been here almost as long as our Native Americans. They hold an equally sainted place in our memory, the long suffering, the noble, the faithful, the underpaid, abused and isolated. The genuine smile, the graceful politeness, the relaxed demeanor, tipping their hats to women…all [...]
Tags: Billionaire Tax Cuts·Neocons·slavery·the Old South·wage slaves·White Supremacy
One Nation Rally. October 2, 2010, the National Mall, Washington D.C.
September 30th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Capitalism, Culture, Human Rights, jobs, Media, Politics, Populism
If you can attend, it is this weekend. It will be the biggest event on the Mall in many years, a very large number of organizations, including the many various state chapters of the Democratic Party will be busing in people to the Mall for this assembly. It is both significant and also important that as [...]
Tags: Democratic Rally in Washington on Oct 2·One Nation March on Washington on Oct 2nd·One Nation Rally. October 2·Progressive Rally in Washington on Oct 2·Union rally in Washington on October 2
Politics: Winning in Class Warfare — Part I
September 15th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Culture, Human Rights, jobs, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
In the early evening of a summer night in New York City, or Dallas or Los Angeles, or Miami, there is a slow, quiet movement of long, dark-windowed vehicles. They move quietly to centers of activity where bright lights outline the architecture and gowned women and men in expensive suits emerge, smiling and laughing. The [...]
Tags: austerity·billiionaires·Class warfare·Medicare·Neoconservatism·obstructionism·Social Security·tax breaks for the wealthy·taxes·the rich
The “R” Word
August 14th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Human Rights, Media, Politics, Populism
In 1917, after generations of serfdom, oppression, starvation and genocide, the people of Czarist Russia took matters into their own hands. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, transported through Eastern Europe into Russia on a sealed train brought the remedy to the problems of all the peasants…organization and force. He brought a system of organization to establish a [...]
The Bush-Cheney Pro-Poverty Programs
July 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Capitalism, Courts and the Law, Culture, Economics, Human Rights, Politics
In 8 years in office, Bill Clinton, in addition to creating 22 million jobs, left office having lifted 5 million people out of poverty. When George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (who have somehow avoided prosecution for war crimes) left office there were about 12 million unemployed and only 3 million jobs had been created [...]
Tags: Bush and Cheney·financial scams·Neocon scams·personal bankrupticies·poverty·sub-prime mortgages·the unemployed and jobs
Expansion, Not Austerity
July 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Human Rights, jobs, Lobbying, Media, Politics, taxes, Wall Street, wars and militarism
We now have a Presidential Commission to make recommendations about the Reagan-Bush-Bush $13 trillion deficit that was created by cutting revenues in half with tax cuts for the rich, while continuing Republican spending and starting two wars. Of course, it is an absurd idea that we must all gather in hushed tones around former Reagan-Republican [...]
Tags: Corporatism·neocon·Neocons·obstruction of unemployment benefits·Scott Brown·the Neocon Party·the Peterson-Pew Commission·unemployment benefits
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