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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'The Budget'
The Failure of Conservative Economics Part VII — Solutions
April 16th, 2013 · Comments Off · Economics, Politics, Populism, Social Security, The Budget, Wall Street
Tags: conservative economics·international trade·jobs·Keynesiansim·Neo-Fascism·the budget·the national debt·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 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
Romney, Taxes, Deficits and Disaster
October 18th, 2012 · Comments Off · Politics, Populism, Romney, taxes, The Budget
Mitt Romney wants to be President. In order to become President, he must persuade the American people that he has a better plan for America to grow its economy. The focal point of that plan has become a promise to create jobs. His plan to create jobs…disappointinly…turns out to be lower tax rates for millionaires [...]
Tags: national debt·Neo-Fascism·Romney·taxes
The Republican Recession and a Budget for Billionaires
April 3rd, 2012 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Politics, Populism, The Budget
How do we explain the tragic situation in which we now find the country? The simple way to explain it is to say that, particularly since 2001, the Republicans have cut taxes three (3) times and created two wars. They laid back on regulations allowing Wall Street to swindle millions of people out of thousands [...]
Tags: GOP Budget Cuts·the Great Bush Recession·the Great Republican National Debt·the Republican Budget Plan·the Republican deficits·the Ryan Budget
The Ryan Road to Ruin
March 28th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Economics, Health Care, Politics, Populism, Social Security, taxes, The Budget
Paul Ryan had the courage to put his name on a budget that was announced last week. This budget will change his image from one of a sincere, small town Republican congressman to that of a pandering, foolish, pretentious, faux-economic hack. His goal seems to be to move the country from Recession to Depression and [...]
Tags: Affordable Care Act·Obamacare·Paul Ryan·Republican obstruction·Tea Party Budget·the health care reform act·the Republican Budget Plan
The Son-in-law Senator from Wisconsin
February 23rd, 2012 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Economics, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes, The Budget
The nice thing about “stupid” is that you don’t have to make anything up or manipulate anything or try to exaggerate anything…stupid is as stupid does. Rarely, however, do public men who are so stupid that you wonder how they can tie their shoes allow their stupidity to show up in the clear, bright glare [...]
Tags: Bemis·Corporatism·Curwood·Neocons·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·PACUR·Republican obstruction·Right Wing Propaganda·Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin·tax cuts for the rich·tea party·tea party candidates·unemployment
The High Cost of Neo-Fascism
February 15th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Democracy, Health Care, Human Rights, Labor, Politics, Populism, Social Security, taxes, The Budget
At the very outset, let’s restate our definition of Neo-Fascism. Even if you do not agree with our definition of the current Republican Party being Neo-Fascist, you will at least know why we make that contention. Remember, Populism is the opposite of Fascism. Populism is a political theory that says that everything starts with the [...]
Tags: Corporatism·deficits·Health Care·health care reform·jobs·national debt·Neo-Fascism·Neocons·Neoconservative·Neoconservative obstruction·Republican obstruction·Right Wing Propaganda·unions
Drilling Our Way to a Balanced Budget
February 10th, 2012 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, jobs, Politics, Populism, The Budget
The American Petroleum Instititute bankrolled a series of television commercials in which a very emphatic blonde parades through a series of set ups that exemplify the good things that come from their utopian idea of what drilling provides. There are no mentions of oil spills. There are no mentions of toxic air or water left [...]
Tags: Corporatism·drilling for oil·jobs from oil revenues to government·nationalize mining·nationalize natural gas drilling·nationalizing the oil industry·oil company profits·oil revenues·oil revenues to balance the budget·oil revenues to the government·one million jobs·public jobs in oil and natural gas drilling·U.S. oil resources
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
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