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 'Wall Street'
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
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
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
“Red Tape” Is a Republican Red Herring.
September 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Economics, Health Care, Politics, Populism, Wall Street
———————————————————————————————— From now on, until the elections of 2012, every post will be lead by the following statement: Nothing proposed or examined here will be changed so long as there are Republican majorities in the House of Representatives and less than 60 Democratic Senators in the Senate. The Republicans…Tea Party or otherwise…all work for the [...]
Tags: health care reform·Koch family·Koch pollution·Neocon obstructionism·pollution and politics·regulation red herring·Republicans want to rid the Kochs of the EPA·why regulations are good
Wisconsin, Walker and ALEC
August 6th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Corporations and Industry, Health Care, Politics, Populism, The Budget, Wall Street
Today, Tuesday, August 9, 2011, Wisconsin voters will face one of the most important political decisions of their lives. It will have an effect on the political life of the United States and it will definitely have an effect on the lives of the citizens of the Stat of Wisconsin Three years ago, after 8 [...]
Tags: ALEC·Democratic elections in Wisconsin·Governor Walker·lobbyists in Wisconsin·tea party·Wisconsin elections·Wisconsin recall elections·Wisconsin Tea Party
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
Tax the Rich and Balance the Budget.
June 25th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, jobs, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
The very wealthy on Wall Street and their political arm, the Neoconservative Republican Party got us into this horrific Recession. Teachers didn’t do it. Nurses didn’t do it. The poor who wanted to own homes and were sold fake mortgages by unscrupulous real estate mortgage brokers didn’t do it. Wall Street, with the active participation [...]
Tags: cutting government·cutting government spending·cutting the military budget·improving Medicare·increasing taxes on corporations·increasing taxes on the rich·Right Wing Neocon policies·saving Medicare and Medicaid·saving Social Security·tax breaks for the rich·taxing the rich
Tax the Rich and Save the Country
June 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
It is time that we stopped thinking about fairness, goodness, and justice. Fairness went out the window with Reagan. There never was enough goodness to go around. And justice…well, we’ve got five Right Wing Corporate Lawyers serving on the Supreme Court. How do you like your justice now? So let’s stop worrying about whether our [...]
Tags: eliminate tax breaks for the rich.·Republicans tax policy·tax the rich·taxes
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
Let’s Talk About the National Budget.
May 21st, 2011 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, energy, jobs, Politics, taxes, Wall Street, wars and militarism
Phony baloney. Just like Walker in Wisconsin, the talk about “austerity” is a bunch of rich white men talking bull shit about what needs to be done. We don’t need austerity. Not the kind the Republicans are talking about. We need prosperity. You see, the problem with the United States right now is that we [...]
Tags: austerity federal budget·budget cuts·Medicare·raising taxes on the rich·Social Security·tax cuts·taxes
On Nazis, Fascists, Neocons and Republican Governors
April 26th, 2011 · Comments Off · Human Rights, Labor, Politics, Populism, Wall Street, wars and militarism
Often in blog posts on the Internet, especially heated political arguments, people start slinging around the term “Nazi,” particularly in discussions of Neoconservative Republicans. Neocons are not “Nazis.” They are in fact “Fascists.” A fascist is one who combines the power of industry, government and the military into totalitarian…total…political control. The Nazis were a Fascist-leaning [...]
Tags: attacks on collective bargaining·attacks on labor unions·Fascist Neoconservative tactics·John Kasich·Neocon governors·Neoconservative Republicans·Republican governors·Rick Scott·Rick Snyder·Scott Walker