We now have a Presidential Commission to make recommendations about the Reagan-Bush-Bush $13 trillion deficit that was created by cutting revenues in half with tax cuts for the rich, while continuing Republican spending and starting two wars.
Of course, it is an absurd idea that we must all gather in hushed tones around former Reagan-Republican [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Corporatism'
Raise Taxes or Cut Entitlements–You Decide.
July 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Economics, Politics, jobs, taxes
You should see one particular chart from the Congressional budget office.
Here’s what it says:
The lowest two quintiles (lowest 40%) of wage earners averaged $17,400 in 1979.
The Top One percent of wage earners averaged $167,500 in 1979.
By 2007, the 27th year of the Neoconservative Era, the bottom two quintiles made $20,500. That’s an [...]
Tags: CEO pay·Corporatism·cuts in Medicare spending·cutting taxes·cutting the national debt·deficit spending·entitlements·government deficits·raising taxes·Social Security and Medicare·the national debt·the top 1% of income earners
“Please, Sir, May I Have Another!”
June 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Labor, Lobbying, Media, Politics, jobs, taxes
The Republicans in Congress have their paddles out and are ready, if we let them, to make us walk the line again, while the Neocon frat boys in the Chamber of Commerce, in Congress and on Wall Street deliver a good spanking like the one they handed the country in 2007-2008.
Yes, these cartoon [...]
Tags: Corporatism·jobs·Neocons·Neoconservative obstruction·political gamesmanship·Right Wing obstruction·tax cuts·unemployment insurance
State of the Nation — June 2010
June 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Lobbying, Media, Politics, energy, jobs, taxes
Where are we?
We’ve got a bunch of tea party nuts…let’s be frank…running around saying that the country is becoming a fascist sate and another segment of the same nuts or even those same nuts themselves contradicting what they just said by saying we’re becoming Communist or Socialist.
It’s difficult even to explain, let alone [...]
Tags: Corporatism·jobs·Liberal and progressive legislation·Lobbying·Neoconservative obstruction·Republican lies·Senate Republican obstruction·taxes·unions
The Dangerous Game
May 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Culture, Economics, Labor, Media, Politics, Populism, Wall Street, wars and militarism
Anarchy is the absence of government. It could be a placid, pastoral society or it could be the wild, wild West. The fact is, however, that it is dangerous to contemplate anarchy unless you can be certain which it will be.
You may call the Soviet Union a state that grew out of a Communist [...]
Tags: anarchy·Communism·Corporatism·media control·media elitism·Right Wing control of media·Socialism
Wake Up, America!
May 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Corporations and Industry, Lobbying, Media, Politics, Wall Street
When will Americans finally wake up? Corporations have taken over the United States. The Republican Party has become, as Anthony Weiner said, in his complete frustration during the health care debate. “a wholly owned subsidiary of the health insurance business.”
Today, May 14, 2010, an oil spill from a company that makes billions of dollars a [...]
Tags: Corporations and Republicans·Corporatism·Neoconservative media·Neoconservative propaganda·Republican corporate pandering·Republican lobbyists·Republican support of big oil·Right Wing radio
Corporatism Versus Populism
April 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Politics, Populism
Populism is about people. The Latin word for “the people” is populus. So a Populist is one who has concern for the People. Historically American Populism has been a political philosophy that had to do with the struggle of the average worker or farmer against those powerful forces in society that had gained control of [...]
Tags: corporate welfare·Corporatism·Neoconservative corporatism·Populism·populist·Republican·Republican obstructionism·right wing republicans·tea party members