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 [...]
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On Raising Taxes and Restoring the Dream
April 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Politics, taxes, Wall Street
We have all benefited from lower taxes in the years since 1980. So we can’t simply say that the rich have benefited. We all have lower taxes than we otherwise would. Of course, the more money you make, the more you are taxed. So the rich, even at these lower rates, pay more by far [...]
Tags: balancing the budget·growing the economy·jobs·Neocon budget proposals·Obama budget proposals·tariffs and trade·tax cuts·tax increases
Americans Want Jobs, Not Cuts in Medicare or Medicaid
April 16th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, Lobbying, Politics, Populism, Wall Street, wars and militarism
Most people will tell you that they are angry with the President. They were angry with the President in 2010 when they voted for 29 Republican governors, Republican governors who—the idiots should have known—are about to destroy collective bargaining for public workers, like teachers, firefighters and police, drop millions of Americans off Medicaid, and eliminate [...]
Tags: a Populist jobs program·Democratic job creation·jobs·Neocon obstructionism·Neocon racism·Republican bigots·Republican obstructionism·Wall Street bankers
A Better Way to Balance Budgets
April 13th, 2011 · Comments Off · Health Care, Lobbying, Politics, taxes, Wall Street
The Republicans are not interested in balancing the budget. They are interested in cutting taxes. Does anyone deny that? We have a $14 trillion national debt and yet they cut taxes on the wealthy and added $800 billion to the national debt over the next two years. Only after that did they start talking about [...]
Tags: budget cuts·Budgets·National budgets·national debt·Republican budgets·the President's Budget
Neocon Corporate Moguls Attack Middle Class Workers
February 27th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Education, Labor, Politics, Wall Street
This is a country that has created some of the greatest industries and the greatest fortunes in the history of the world. In 1883 Thomas Edison and many others began the age of electricity, lighting homes and powering the enormous scope of machines, appliances and useful devices. By the turn of the 21st Century we [...]
Tags: Attacking the Middle Class·Corporate America·Koch Industries·Neocon Billionaires·Sendign jobs overseas·workers rights
Laffer Is Laughable…But It’s Not Funny.
February 10th, 2011 · Comments Off · Politics, taxes, Wall Street
Does anyone believe that Arthur Laffer, Ronald Reagan’s guru, the author and prime suspect in the catastrophe known as “voodoo economics” is really an economist? He does. And after years of hard work–economics is not bean bags;there are equations and charts and calculations, and sticking your neck out to make projections–he deserves to consider himself [...]
Tags: annual deficits·Arthur Laffer·national debt·Neocon policies·Ronald Reagan·tax cuts
Republican Pledge: Restore Scrooge’s America
September 26th, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, Politics, taxes, Wall Street
Remember good old Ebenezer? He was more concerned with his wealth than his family or his employees or his community. In other words, he was a Neoconservative Republican. If you take seriously the plan released Thursday by the House of Representatives at a lumber yard outside of Washington, D.C., you are happily voting for good [...]
Tags: Contrat on America·John Boehner·Neocon Republicans political plan·Neoconservative politics·Pledge to America·Republican political plan·Republican politics·tax plans
Politics: Winning in Class Warfare — Part I
September 15th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Culture, Human Rights, jobs, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
In the early evening of a summer night in New York City, or Dallas or Los Angeles, or Miami, there is a slow, quiet movement of long, dark-windowed vehicles. They move quietly to centers of activity where bright lights outline the architecture and gowned women and men in expensive suits emerge, smiling and laughing. The [...]
Tags: austerity·billiionaires·Class warfare·Medicare·Neoconservatism·obstructionism·Social Security·tax breaks for the wealthy·taxes·the rich
The Case for Raising Taxes
September 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Politics, taxes, Wall Street
For so many years we have been told that tax cuts stimulate the economy that most of us cannot accept the fact that raising taxes will not be counterproductive to expanding the economy. But that is exactly the case. Taxes may influence behavior. If you tax cigarettes or gasoline very heavily, some reduction in consumption [...]
A Proven 80-year-old Plan for Recovery
September 5th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Labor, Media, Politics, Wall Street
The American People, according to polls, have now floundered their way into a strong majority willing to literally destroy their lives and those of their children. The latest polls show many Right Wing Republicans ahead in the polls. This is beyond stupidity. If the Republicans were advocating a return to moderation, one might think that, [...]
Tags: Beck·economic development·FDR·job creation·jobs·Koch·Murdoch·Neocon obstruction·Neocons·Obama reconstruction plan·the Great Bush Recession·the New Deal
Restoring Honor? How About Restoring Sanity?
August 28th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Media, Politics, Wall Street
It is probably not a good idea to give any publicity to this inane plan of Glenn Beck’s to hold a “Restoring Honor” meeting at the Washington Mall but it is an appropriate starting point. Glenn Beck is probably the most vocal and radical–some, many, say crazy–commentator on the Obama Administration’s policies. He literally has [...]
Tags: Glenn Beck·Neocon Republican rally·Restoring Honor·Tea Party Washington rally·Washington rally
The Great Neocon Budget Hoax
August 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Capitalism, Economics, Lobbying, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
Representative Paul Ryan, Neocon-Republican of Wisconsin, has laid out an economic plan for the future of the country. The problem with his plan, however, is that it makes several flawed assumptions. First of all it assumes that the American People will never figure out that tax cuts for those in brackets from over $350,000 a [...]
Tags: Neocon Budget Plan·Neocon economic plan·Neocon Social Security cuts·Representative Paul Ryan·the Ryan Budget plan
The Neocons
August 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Lobbying, Media, Politics, Science & Technology, taxes, Wall Street
When the current American Right Wing propaganda machine heats up it is very difficult to sift through the lies and the deliberate distractions to go directly to the facts. There are a dozen obfuscations along the way. And not merely for the overview of the last ten years, but for each single affront to American [...]
Tags: Karl Rove·Neocon politics·the Neconservative movement·the Neoconservative political theory·The Neoconservative Republican Party·the Neoconservatives·the Tea Party
Neocons and Neo-Fascists in the Global Village
July 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Corporations and Industry, Culture, International affairs, Lobbying, Politics, Populism, Wall Street, wars and militarism
What is America? Is it merely a flag? Is it an armed force, with tanks and guns and planes? After all, that’s what many people see in villages around the world. That’s what simple groups of small villagers saw in Iraq…people with no television, no media elite, no sophisticated intellectual government in their region to [...]
Tags: American culture·lobbyists·Neo-Fascists·Neocon Republicans·Neocons·obstruction·progressive policies
Open Letter to Tea Party: Take a Hard Left Turn
July 27th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Capitalism, Culture, Health Care, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street, wars and militarism
Before anyone who is a true Populist is going to believe that you, the Tea Party members are remotely legitimate and not simply stooges for the Right Wing of the Republican Party, you need to get some common sense. If you want to parade around pretending to be lovers of freedom and democracy, you need [...]
Tags: racist tea party marchers·tea baggers·tea party·tea party members