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 [...]
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Here Comes the Election Year Propaganda
January 27th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Economics, Health Care, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism, taxes
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
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 [...]
Tags: Economics·Health Care·health care reform·lobbyists·Neocons·Neoconservative propaganda·Politics·tax cuts for the rich
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
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
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
Wake Up, Republicans, Before It Is Too Late!
November 10th, 2011 · Comments Off · Economics, Health Care, Politics, Populism, taxes
The recent elections have brought some emotional and some real political relief to a beleaguered Middle Class, but we need to point out a few things that MUST happen or our society will literally disintegrate. For so many years now, Republicans have been listening to a siren song of false promises and false accusations that [...]
Tags: Bush-Cheney phony tax cut assertions·CBO report on tax cuts and reduced revenues·Douglass Holtz-Eakin·health care repeal·Koch sponsorship of the Tea Party·LIes about health care reform·Republican deficits·Republican health insurance industry sponsors·Republican propaganda on health care repeal·tax cuts do not raise revenues
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
Lies My Republican Candidates Told Me.
October 28th, 2011 · Comments Off · Culture, Politics, Populism, The Budget, Wall Street
The Republican candidates are out on the Old Washington Trail. It leads from Iowa to New Hampshire to the Carolinas, with stops in Nevada and other similarly insignificant places along the way. The costumes are atrocious, the tricks are many and the treats are, well, few and far between. But the missatements of fact…well…they are [...]
Tags: Economics·Health Care·health care lobby·Herman Cain·lobbyists·Michele Bachmann·Mit Romney·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·Neoconservatives·Newt Gingrich·Politics·Republican campaign lies·Republican obstruction·Republican Party lies·Republican Presidential Campaign 2011 and 2012·Rick Perry·Right Wing Propaganda
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
Returning the Great American Middle Class
October 21st, 2011 · Comments Off · Politics, Populism
This is about returning government to the People. This is about returning the Middle Class to America. If you read this and you are not a Republican, you will understand it immediately. When you do, you should send it to everyone you know and tell them to send it to everyone they know. Now they [...]
Tags: Corporatism·Economics·health care reform·national debt·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·tax cuts for the rich
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
Unless You Are a Millionaire–or a Bigot–You Should Not Vote Republican.
October 10th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Politics, Populism
It is time that we all faced facts, looked at ourselves in the mirror and asked ourselves who we are. If you are part of a group that makes racial slurs and condones the bigoted signs of demonstrators or laughs at the racist jokes of radio commentators, or applauds the disrespect for the Presidency of [...]
Tags: health insurance industry·Neocons·Neoconservative·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·Plutocrats and Republicans·Republicans and global corporations·Right Wing·right wing republicans
Are the Republicans Really Fascists? A Comparison.
October 6th, 2011 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Labor, Politics, Populism, Science & Technology, Wall Street, wars and militarism
Anyone can call someone else a name. People call others Fascists or Nazis all the time on the Internet. People who have these little backwoods militia are often called Nazi-wannabees or actually in some cases call themselves Nazis. But the fact is that the term “Fascist” has a specific meaning. While Nazis were Fascists, many [...]
Tags: Are Republicans Fascists·Fascism·Fascism and Republicans·Fascism and the GOP·Fascism and the Neocons·Fascism and the Tea Party
Who Is Stealing Your Retirement and Why?
October 4th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Health Care, Labor, Politics, Populism, Wall Street
It’s about time you faced some increasingly obvious facts. Your own corporation is stealing your retirement income. Corporations are freezing defined benefit plans, shutting down others, converting some to defined contribution plans and drastically capping the amount retirees receive in health care benefits. It is happening now under the guise of increased costs, but it [...]
Tags: corporate greed continues·Corporate theft of retired benefits·corporations stealing pensions·legislation needed to stop corporate theft of pensions·retired worker's health benefits reduced·workers retirement benefits stolen by corporations