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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Lobbying'
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 [...]
Tags: Americans for Tax Reform·balancing the budget on the backs of the poor.·deficits·Grover Norquist·national debt·tea party
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
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
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 [...]
Tags: ALEC and collective bargaining·ALEC and cutting state health care·ALEC's Plan to take over state governments·cutting state government·Republican governors·The Corporations fund ALEC legislation for states
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 [...]
Tags: anti-regulation atmosphere·construction deaths·corporate anti-regulatory plan·dangers in the workplace·Neocon anti-regulation agenda·Neocon obstruction of regulations·OSHA failures·Republican anti-regulation agenda·Republican anti-worker agenda·why regulations are important·workers rights
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 [...]
Tags: GOP governors·GOP Neocon governors·Governor Rick Perry of Texas·Neocon budget catastrophes·Rick Perry and Texas·state budgets·the national debt·the state deficits
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 [...]
Tags: Neocon Tea Party·Right Wing obstruction·Super-rich·tea party·Tea party backers·Tea Party obstructionism·the Right Wing Tea Party
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 [...]
Tags: Fascists·Joe Walsh·Marco Rubio·national debt·Neocons·Neoconservative obstruction·raising the debt ceiling·right wing republicans·Tea Party politicians
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 [...]
Tags: Republican candidates·Right Wing Propaganda·Sarah Palin·the Koch Family and Palin·the Palins·the Tea Party and Sarah Palin
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 [...]
Tags: alternatives to budget cutting·health insurance industry lies·killing Social Security·Neoconservative lies·Republican lies·Republican lies about austerity·saving Medicare and Social Security·the truth about Obamacare
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 [...]
Tags: Herman Cain·Michelle Bachmann·Mit Romney·Neocon Candidates for President·Newt Gingrich·Republicaan debate·Republican candidates for President·Republican debate in New Hampshire·Ric Santorum·Ron Paul·Tim Pawlenty
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 [...]
Tags: billionaire lobbyists·billionaires·Koch family·lobbyists·Nazi political philosophy·Neocons·Republican governors
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 [...]
Tags: a Populist jobs program·Democratic job creation·jobs·Neocon obstructionism·Neocon racism·Republican bigots·Republican obstructionism·Wall Street bankers