Sometimes it seems that economists live in a world different from ours. We have bills to pay, jobs to keep, children to educate. The formulas that economists constantly elaborate upon seem to have little to do with daily life. Of course that is not true. The outcome of macroeconomic calculation can have an enormous impact [...]
Entries Tagged as 'deficits'
It’s the Economy…Or Is It?
July 4th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Democracy, Economics, Politics, Populism, taxes
Tags: Bush·Cheney·conservative economics·conservatives·deficits·national debt·Neocons·Neoconservatives·Republican obstruction·Ronald Reagan·tax cuts for the rich·top one percent
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
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
On Taxes and Coming Out of Recession
August 24th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, jobs, Politics
This is a short piece about taxes and jobs. One would hope that this blog is not the only place where there is a serious call for all Americans to begin to call, write and even assemble and march to the offices of our elected officials to lobby for for jobs. We need jobs desperately [...]
Tags: Bush tax cuts for the rich·deficits·economy·job creation·jobs·national debt·restoring the economy
Neocons and National Debt
August 5th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Capitalism, Economics, Lobbying, Politics, taxes
Income taxes were first levied to pay for the Civil War. After the Civil War, personal income taxes were abolished and there were basically no income taxes from 1868 to 1913. Taxes on liquor and tobacco were the chief sources of revenue for the Federal government. To fund the U.S. participation in World War I, [...]
Tags: deficits·national debt·Neocon economic policy·tax cuts·voodoo economics
Fixing the Economy and the Budget–for the People
June 29th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, jobs, Politics, taxes, Wall Street
It’s wonk city, folks. If you don’t have any patience, don’t read on. But if you don’t read on, don’t blame us if the Peterson-Pew Commission takes your retirement and your medicine and leaves you with $5.00 gasoline in three years. Look, finance really isn’t complicated. If you want to work out the financing for [...]
Tags: Bush's national debt·Clinton economy·deficits·increases in the national debt·job creation·job losses to outsourcing abroad·manufacturing·structural deficits·tariffs·trillion-dollar deficits
The Angry American
June 13th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Populism, taxes
There has been no time in recent memory when so many people, so many Americans, are very, very angry. They have every right to be angry. A large group of Americans…primarily members and elected officials of the Republican Party…have confiscated a large part of the American treasury. Now they want to take even more. What’s [...]
Tags: Bush administration·Bush-Cheney Administration·deficits·national debt·Neoconservative political programs·Republican deficit spending
Greed
May 31st, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, jobs, taxes, Wall Street
“The time has come” the walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes–and ships–and sealing wax– Of cabbages–and kings– And why the sea is boiling hot– And whether pigs have wings.” –Lewis Carroll, “The Walrus and the Carpenter.” Ah, yes, let’s distract from the abstract. Let’s diffuse, distort, dissemble and dismember our rationality. Let’s [...]
Tags: Bush tax cuts·deficits·Economics·government spending·income inequality·national debt·Peterson-Pew Commission·reducing the national debt·securing Social Security and Medicare
American Society at a Crossroads. For People or for Corporations?
March 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · Health Care, jobs, Politics
We are facing a serious problem as a society. The problem is whether we will approach our fellow citizens as equals, with equal opportunity for a decent, secure life. Will we also look on our less fortunate fellow Americans and offer them a hand up? Or will we turn inward, striving to maximize our lifestyle [...]
Tags: America's political future·American government·corporate lobbying·deficits·Domestic economy·Economics·health care reform·Neoconservative obstruction·tax revenues·the national debt
Beware the Ides of March and Neocon Budget Scare Tactics
March 13th, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, Politics
We are going through one of those periods right now where the Neocon anti-middle class propaganda machine is cranking out trash day and night. The result of course is that the weirdos crawl out into the daylight where you can see them and read their illiterate scrawling in every electronic blip on the Internet. Of [...]
Tags: deficits·national debt·Neoconservatives·scare tactics·stimuli·tax cuts
The Next American Revolution
February 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, Health Care, Media, Politics, wars and militarism
It is time for all Americans to stop what they are doing and think about the future. Your future has already been mapped out for you by a relatively small percentage of Americans, who want to eliminate the middle class. The Neoconservatives, on a mission for the very wealthy and huge international corporations, have the [...]
Tags: Bush·Bush tax cuts·deficits·health care reform·how to pay for deficits·Iraq war·lobbyists·Medicare·national debt·Neoconservative propaganda·Neoconservative think tanks·Neoconservatives·Reagan·Reagan tax cuts·Social Security·tax cuts·tax reform·wars
The Economy Is In Big Trouble—Part II, Our Diminished Future.
February 12th, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, Politics
To understand your life in the future, you must understand that what happened in the last 8 years, particularly in the last year of the Bush Administration, as described in Part I, is irreversible. We cannot go back and sue all those Tom DeLays or Dick Cheneys, or even whatever number of Democrats joined in [...]
Tags: Bush recession·corporate campaign contributions·deficits·Economics·future of the economy·health care lobby·health care reform·jobs·Neocon obstructionism·Supreme court and corporate campaign contributions·the economy·the national debt·unemployment
The Truth About the National Debt
February 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, jobs, Politics
Attention: propaganda groups! Neocons to propaganda groups: Come in Please! Attention! Let’s distract the Helots, the Tea Baggers. Let’s send them to the opposite end of the economic spectrum, from the recovery and the need for jobs to the huge deficit so that they will not really understand what is happening in this country and [...]
Tags: Bush Deficit·Clinton surpluses·deficits·national debt·Reagan deficit·surplus·tax cuts for the rich