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The Parable of the Thieves

January 22nd, 2012 · 1 Comment · Health Care, Lobbying, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street

When reason fails, people fall back on superstition. The American society has long operated under the basic principle that hard work creates abundance and abundance may solve all our earthly ills. When that logic, which has always been one of our foundations, along with “fair play” and “brotherhood” among citizens…although a creaky stair-climb with many [...]

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Grover Norquist: Lobbyist for the Rich

December 7th, 2011 · Comments Off · Lobbying, Politics, Populism, taxes, The Budget, wars and militarism

Grover Norquist is without question the kind of nerd that most working-class Democrats and Liberals like to attack. He comes from an affluent Republican family, grew up in the household of a corporate executive for Polaroid corporation, and has Harvard and Harvard Business School certifications indicating that he completed both required courses of study. He [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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ALEC’s Plan to Take Over State Governments

September 28th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Lobbying, Politics, Populism

The economic problems of the United States are not complicated nor are they insolvable. They are the result of actions taken by a few in Congress at the behest of a smaller group yet who have been able to buy government. So, we, as citizens in much larger numbers, can correct this mistake by voting [...]

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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 [...]

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Rick Perry: Bum to Hero to Bum…Before the Campaign Starts!

August 28th, 2011 · Comments Off · Lobbying, Politics, Populism, The Budget

This is how Neoconservatives…aka Neocons…aka the American Kinder, Gentler Fascists…work: they lie, then cover their lies with more lies, then let the truth come out after at least a third of the People have already accepted the lies. Then they retract their lies but only with more lies. A good example is Governor Rick Perry [...]

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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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Tea Party Republicans and American Hatred

August 4th, 2011 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Lobbying, Politics, Populism, The Budget

So now…the debt limit is raised and everyone is happy. We have cuts in government spending, But what else happened? Nothing. That is what the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party has been sent to Washington to do. Nothing. Or things we would call negative. In other words, cut Social Security. Cut Medicare and [...]

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The Astonishing, Incomprehensible Mind of the of the American Neocon-Fascist

July 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off · Health Care, jobs, Lobbying, Politics, Populism, taxes

Only today, only in the most recent polls are we beginning to see the larger group of Americans turning around at some of the comments by the Tea Party and the other Neoconservative Republicans and saying: “What did he say? Did I hear that correctly?” Only now are the vast majority of normal Americans beginning [...]

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The Palin Ascendency

July 18th, 2011 · Comments Off · Lobbying, Media, Politics, wars and militarism

When Sarah Palin was selected as the Vice Presidential candidate in 2008 to run with John McCain, she seemed a nice, relatively simple woman with a family and at least the minimal amount of intelligence necessary to run a small community–not an insignificant thing. She had been mayor of a small community, Wasilla, Alaska. She [...]

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Overturning the Republican Lie Machine

June 27th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Health Care, Lobbying, Politics, Populism

The facts about austerity are incontrovertible. There is every good reason to generate more income and not cut entitlement programs. Do NOT let the Right Wing media,which is most television media, persuade you to give in to cutting social services. Ronald Reagan put people onto the streets. There were days in the 1980s that you [...]

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The Neocon Republican Candidates—A Rogues Gallery

June 15th, 2011 · Comments Off · Health Care, jobs, Lobbying, Politics, taxes, Wall Street

What a bunch of losers we saw in the first Republican debate. It was shallow, obfuscating and ignored reality. We’ll start off by saying that we can’t even add Herman Cain and Ron Paul to a serious discussion. Cain is a total zero and Paul, as we know from what he has said in the [...]

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A Time for Action

May 27th, 2011 · Comments Off · Lobbying, Politics, Wall Street

Normally, we all look to events for encouragement or emotional uplift that demands that we get up out of our chairs. Not everyone. Some people are motivated 24/7/365 against injustice, denial of human rights or intense need by some member or segment of society. When Haiti happened, for example, or when the monster earthquakes hit [...]

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Americans Want Jobs, Not Cuts in Medicare or Medicaid

April 16th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, Lobbying, Politics, Populism, Wall Street, wars and militarism

Most people will tell you that they are angry with the President. They were angry with the President in 2010 when they voted for 29 Republican governors, Republican governors who—the idiots should have known—are about to destroy collective bargaining for public workers, like teachers, firefighters and police, drop millions of Americans off Medicaid, and eliminate [...]

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