In 1994, in an interview, Milton Friedman said that in the 1990s there is “much less optimism and all the problems have been produced by government.” This is the essential argument between the two political parties in the United States today. One pretends to be the party of Conservatives, whom they define as people like [...]
Entries Tagged as 'jobs'
Moving to the Left
November 15th, 2012 · 1 Comment · jobs, Politics, Populism, taxes
If you are a Populist, you should not think that the elections on November 6, 2012 solved anything. We elected a President and Senators and House members. But they were not all Populists. Until we elect officials who are dedicated to the will and the common good of the People, much remains to be done. [...]
Tags: jobs·taxes·the 2014 elections·voter supression·Wall Street
Homeless in Seattle…and Lakewood…and Reno…and more…
August 28th, 2012 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, Human Rights, jobs
Tent cities are growing all over the country. Over 47 million people now live below the poverty line. There are growing numbers of tent cities, surrounding over 55 American metro areas. Hundreds live in squalor in the Taco Flats area of Fresno, California. Others live in tents in the woods near Ann Arbor, Michigan. On any [...]
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 [...]
How Conservatism Becomes Fascism
June 23rd, 2012 · 2 Comments · ALEC, Democracy, Fascism, Human Rights, jobs, Lobbying, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes
In 1946, in one of the great cosmopolitan cities of Europe, ancient and yet contemporary, with a tradition of culture, music, popular culture and modern art, an old woman, dressed in a ragged coat, with an old woolen bandana wrapped around her head dragged a small cart down the street. The formerly popular neighborhood was [...]
Tags: ALEC·ALEC's paid legislators·Corporatism·lobbyists·national debt·Neo-Fascism·Neo-Fascist Republicans·Neoconservative propaganda·Republican obstruction·Right Wing·Right Wing Propaganda·tax cuts for the rich·Tea Party Fascists
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
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
Here Comes the Election Year Propaganda
January 27th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Economics, Health Care, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism, taxes
If you think you have been lied to before…you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. It’s an election year and therefore the amount and the degree of inaccuracy of Republican statements will increase, and already have increased, exponentially. Here are just a few examples. Both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have blamed Barack Obama for the lack [...]
Tags: Bush recession·Class warfare·Corporatism·Economics·Health Care·health care reform·health insurance·jobs·national debt·Neocons·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·Politics·Republican obstruction·Right Wing·Right Wing Propaganda·stimulus·unemployment
Nationalize Natural Gas Production and Save America.
December 21st, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, energy, jobs, Politics, Populism, The Budget
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 [...]
Tags: Economics·energy policy·fracking·natural gas·the national debt
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
How Fred Upton and Whirlpool Devastated Arkansas and Michigan.
November 7th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, jobs, Labor, Lobbying, Politics, Populism
Large corporations are often so huge that it is difficult to get one’s head around their size and their influence. General Electric, for example, has 304, 000 employees world wide. Many of their divisions manufacture things overseas for sale to other countries. Only about 133,000 employees are still employed here in the United States. Most [...]
Tags: Al Pscholka·Benton Harbor and Whirlpool Corporation·Fred Upton·Ric Snyder takeover of Benton Harbor·Whirlpool Corporation·Whirlpool layoffs·Whirlpool layoffs in Fort Smith Arkansas
OCCUPY AMERICA!
October 26th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Culture, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
The last big show of Populist sentiment in this country was when the people of Wisconsin stood up against an oppressive Governor and a neo-Fascist Republican legislature who wanted to dismantle the state government, give away tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks to wealthy business owners, and pit one average middle class family [...]
Tags: Corporatism·health insurance industry·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·President's jobs bill·Right Wing·tax cuts for the rich·unemployment
The Economics of Robert Reich.
October 19th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, Education, jobs, Politics, Populism, taxes, The Budget
Many short men are taller than Robert Reich. But as they said about Ari Onassis (who wasn’t that short, Ms. Onassis was just a little taller) he was not so short when he stood on his wallet. When Dr. Reich stands on his intellect, he is about the same height as Bill Russell. Do you [...]
Tags: creating jobs·economics of recovery·fiscal stimulus·restoring manufacturing·Robert Reich
Jobs and the Current American Economic Disaster
October 13th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, jobs, Politics, Populism, Wall Street
Since the Fall of 2008, the U.S. economy a dynamic enterprise of about $15 trillion dollars, as measured in employment, has fallen by about 8 million people. There were already about 7 million people unemployed, or 7% by the end of 2007, a roller coaster ride up and down after the Clinton Administration when unemployment [...]
Tags: jobs·Neocons·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·unemployment
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