Since 2008 and the onset of the Great Bush Depression, we have seen some of the most remarkable and inane economic theories ever proposed and some of the greatest revisions in economic history ever put upon the American People. For example, with 15 million people out of work and Europe on its back, many conservative [...]
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Starting Over in the New World
April 25th, 2013 · Comments Off · ALEC, Economics, Politics, Populism
There is an ongoing petulant argument being carried out in what one might call the economic and political press. Should we cut government which will supposedly make us leaner and meaner and more ready to expand our economy? Or should we create more jobs, try to jump start the economy, create public jobs and revenues [...]
The Failure of Conservative Economics Part VII — Solutions
April 16th, 2013 · Comments Off · Economics, Politics, Populism, Social Security, The Budget, Wall Street
So what are the solutions to our economic problems? They’d better be good. The Bush Administration left us with an enormous mess. In January of 2009, the first month of the Obama Administration, 779,000 people lost their jobs. The average number of jobs lost in the first quarter of 2009, was 753,000….per month. The American [...]
Tags: conservative economics·international trade·jobs·Keynesiansim·Neo-Fascism·the budget·the national debt·unemployment
The Failure of Conservative Economics Part VI – Our Current Problems and Why
March 26th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Economics, Politics, Populism
We have talked about the problems with our economy. We have discussed how they have been caused by a cynical use of failed economic policies by Republican politicians backed by billionaires and giant corporations. But one person sticks out to us as analogous to the entire period of Neo-Conservative dominance of the weak American mind. [...]
Tags: Economics·national debt·Neoconservative·Politics·tax cuts for the rich·unemployment
The Failure of Conservative Economics Part V – The Bush-Cheney Depression
March 14th, 2013 · Comments Off · ALEC, Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Media, Politics, Populism, The Budget
The United States has been in decline since 1981. That was when Ronald Reagan’s charismatic personality took over the country. Reagan was the all-time, All-American, schoolboy President. The gosh-golly-gee whiz President came to power overwhelmed by the more sophisticated long-range plans of the Corporatists. They saw his gullibility and his charm as an opening to [...]
Tags: conservatism·Economics·Neo-Fascism·Neoconservatism·Republican obstruction
Time Out –A Look at the Republican Non-budget
March 12th, 2013 · Comments Off · ALEC, Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Politics, Populism, Social Security, taxes, The Budget
Before we can return to the Failure of Conservative Economics, we must address a current issue on today’s Neo-Conservative agenda…the Paul Ryan Republican Budget for 2013. We need to examine the premises here and debunk the stuff that is simply wrong. Paul Ryan announced the Republican Budget on March 12, 2013 and it fell with [...]
Tags: Corporatism·Economics·Health Care·national debt·Neoconservative·Politics·Republican Budget·Right Wing Propaganda·Ryan Budget·Social Security·taxes
Time-Out. A Brief Discussion of the Sequester
March 4th, 2013 · Comments Off · Politics, Populism, The Budget
(Part V of The Failure of Conservative Economics will be posted following this post, in a few days. But we thought that what is happening immediately would form a good example of what Conservative Economics and Politics have led us to thus far. ) After the Bush Stock Market Crash of 2008 and the resultant [...]
The Failure of Conservative Economics–Pt. IV–Bush, Cheney and Big Government by Debt
February 25th, 2013 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Democracy, Economics, jobs, Lobbying, Media, obstruction, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
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 [...]
Tags: Bush·Cheney·Conservative·Economics·Friedman·Hayek·national debt·Neo-Classical·Neo-Fascist
Failure of Conservative Economics, Part III The Big Economic Lie
February 10th, 2013 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, General, Politics, Populism
No discussion of Conservative economics will be complete without a full analysis and review of the theories of Fredrich Hayek. Hayek was an Austrian economist who moved to England in the early 1930s and taught at the London School of Economics. The general tone of his work is that free competition in the marketplace and [...]
Tags: Capitalism·conservative economics·Economics·Neocon economics·Politics·Populism
The Failure of Conservative Economics–Part II. Ronald Reagan
January 27th, 2013 · Comments Off · Economics, Politics, Populism
In the period from the 1950s until the late 1970s, the Conservatives were largely considered Right Wing radicals and economic zealots. Republicans of those days were mostly moderate, even some liberal, as with the Nelson Rockefeller wing of the party. The Republican Right Wing presented a political problem as it had a series of rather [...]
The Failure of Conservatism and the Future of American Economics. Part I
January 8th, 2013 · Comments Off · ALEC, Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Labor, Lobbying, obstruction, Politics, Populism, Social Security, taxes, The Budget, Wall Street, wars and militarism
In 1946, in the shadow of the carillon tower on the campus of the University of Chicago, an economist by the name of Milton Friedman began teaching economics to some of the brightest students in the country. His particular approach to economics was by and large what might be called neo-classical liberalism. It is a [...]
Tags: conservatism·conservative economics·Corporatism·Economics·lobbyists·Milton Friedman·national debt·Neoclassical Liberalism·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·Politics·Republican obstruction·Social Security·tax cuts for the rich·unemployment
Why We Need Unions
December 19th, 2012 · Comments Off · ALEC, Corporations and Industry, Labor, Lobbying, Politics, Populism
There are a lot of people today who do not understand the history and the purpose of unions. And that is very important. Very important. The reason is as the old saying goes…”Just because I am paranoid does not mean that there are not people out to get me.” And what does that mean? It [...]
Tags: Corporatism·jobs·lobbyists·Neoconservative propaganda·Right Wing Propaganda·unemployment·unions
Republicans Oppose Obamacare…and the Middle Class
November 29th, 2012 · Comments Off · ALEC, Fascism, Health Care, Lobbying, obstruction, Politics, Populism, Social Security, taxes
For years, even decades, the health insurance industry has run medicine in this country. Health insurance is basically when a corporation gets between you and your doctor and tells your doctor if he can perform a procedure to improve your health or in some cases save your life. You pay for health insurance but you [...]
Tags: health care lobby·health care reform·health insurance industry·Obamacare implementation hampered by Republican governors·Republican Governors delay health insurance exchanges·Republican Governors obstruct Obamacare·The Affordable Care Act
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
Obama or Romney…Your Decision, Your Future
October 25th, 2012 · Comments Off · Democracy, Politics, Populism, Romney
We are days from the 2012 elections. The Republicans have their candidate and the Democrats theirs. Romney versus Obama. You have a decision to make. It is all yours and it could affect the rest of your life. The object of the Republican candidate is to discredit the record of the current President. Governor Romney [...]
Tags: Obama administration·Romney·Romney campaign·Romney history·Romney lies