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On Oil Spills and Government Spoils

June 16th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Lobbying, Politics, Populism, Wall Street

This is about our country.We have been through the Second Age of the Moguls and it was worse than the first, if that is possible. In those days, there were no regulations, less than ten percent income tax, often as not ignored, and a country just beginning to feel the environmental weight of massive forests [...]

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It Can Happen Here. It’s Happening Now.

May 16th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, International affairs, Lobbying, Politics, Wall Street

First they came after our land. Then they came after our trees. Then they came after our money. Now they want to take our water. The Gulf of Mexico is now polluted and large parts are becoming unusable for life-sustaining fishing as we speak. The people of Mississippi and Louisiana, parts of Florida and Texas [...]

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