There is a point beyond which credulity will not go. You can lie to some of the people, as Lincoln said, all of the time, or all of the people some of the time. But over a longer period, people will discover the truth. As an aside, this is what happened in 2010. The people [...]
Entries Tagged as 'taxes'
Romney Lies about the President
February 5th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Culture, Health Care, Politics, Populism, Social Security, taxes, wars and militarism
Tags: Corporatism·health care lobby·lobbyists·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·Obamacare·Politics·Right Wing Propaganda·unions
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
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
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
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
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
Taxes and Stimuli, 101
August 15th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Politics, Populism, taxes, The Budget
So many stupid theories abound today, tossed back and forth between the billionaire-paid politicians and their paid think-tank economists, that it is hard to go a single day without shaking your head so hard that your hat falls off. The fact is that there are always only two explanations. Let me explain the two explanations [...]
Tags: Clinton economy·Clinton jobs·Holtz-Eakin lies·jobs·Neocon lies·Republican tax cuts·tax cuts·tax cuts and jobs·tax increases
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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Capitalism Versus Patriotism
July 31st, 2011 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Politics, Populism, taxes, The Budget
American workers have been kicked around by industry for about 30 solid years now. Unions have been crushed, jobs sent to India and China despite the fact that American workers are more educated, have moved to find jobs as often as possible. In the meantime, health insurance companies have left 47 million mostly middle and [...]
Tags: Economics·jobs·Neocon obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·Right Wing
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
Republicans and “Tea Party” Billionaires Attack Social Security
July 15th, 2011 · Comments Off · Politics, Populism, taxes, The Budget
One of the attacks on the Middle Class being undertaken skillfully by the Koch Brothers and the Phil Anschutzes and the Rush Limbaughs and the Rupert Murdochs of the world and carried out by their lackeys, Eric Cantor and Mitch McCullough is on Social Security. So let’s take a look at how this organized process [...]
Tags: cutting Social Security Benefits·Neocons trying to kill Social Security·Republican attacks on Social Security·Social Security·Social Security solvent
Neocon Lies About Taxes and Austerity
July 10th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Politics, Populism, taxes, The Budget, Wall Street
We have to stay on point, stay focused. The time has passed when the average American family can be civil and or laid back about what is happening in society. The Neoconservatives are blindly working for big capitalism to drive down wages, reduce the average equity or net worth of Americans, and control all of [...]
Tags: do tax cuts raise revenues·Neocon lies on taxes·tax cuts·tax cuts for the rich·tax increases·tax loopholes for corporations