If you think you have been lied to before…you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. It’s an election year and therefore the amount and the degree of inaccuracy of Republican statements will increase, and already have increased, exponentially. Here are just a few examples. Both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have blamed Barack Obama for the lack [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Economics'
Here Comes the Election Year Propaganda
January 27th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Economics, Health Care, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism, taxes
Tags: Bush recession·Class warfare·Corporatism·Economics·Health Care·health care reform·health insurance·jobs·national debt·Neocons·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·Politics·Republican obstruction·Right Wing·Right Wing Propaganda·stimulus·unemployment
The Parable of the Thieves
January 22nd, 2012 · 1 Comment · Health Care, Lobbying, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
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 [...]
Tags: Economics·Health Care·health care reform·lobbyists·Neocons·Neoconservative propaganda·Politics·tax cuts for the rich
Nationalize Natural Gas Production and Save America.
December 21st, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, energy, jobs, Politics, Populism, The Budget
There is one simple and secure way to jump start the economy and sustain it over a decade. That one simple idea is to nationalize the natural gas industry. In fact, not only is it good in a positive way, but the nationalization of the production and distribution of natural gas will prevent a negative…the [...]
Tags: Economics·energy policy·fracking·natural gas·the national debt
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
Returning the Great American Middle Class
October 21st, 2011 · Comments Off · Politics, Populism
This is about returning government to the People. This is about returning the Middle Class to America. If you read this and you are not a Republican, you will understand it immediately. When you do, you should send it to everyone you know and tell them to send it to everyone they know. Now they [...]
Tags: Corporatism·Economics·health care reform·national debt·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·tax cuts for the rich
Capitalism Versus Patriotism
July 31st, 2011 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Politics, Populism, taxes, The Budget
American workers have been kicked around by industry for about 30 solid years now. Unions have been crushed, jobs sent to India and China despite the fact that American workers are more educated, have moved to find jobs as often as possible. In the meantime, health insurance companies have left 47 million mostly middle and [...]
Tags: Economics·jobs·Neocon obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·Right Wing
The Current Common Wisdom Is Wrong
July 22nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, jobs, Lobbying, Media, Wall Street
We often refer to the “common wisdom” in society, the general knowledge passed on by word of mouth locally, regionally and eventually expressed in print or on television…and after which people say…oh, yeah, that makes sense. The fact is that the common wisdom often works because the underlying rules are pretty clear in most situations. [...]
Tags: common wisdom on the economy·cutbacks in social programs·economic austerity·Economics·Neocons obstructing the economy·stimulating the economy·stimulus
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
May 1910 to May 2010–100 Years of…Progress?
May 7th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Economics, General, Politics, Populism, Wall Street, wars and militarism
By 1910, the United States had changed from a collection of states along the Atlantic Coast and a group of Southern slavery states to an emerging nation spreading across the entire continent. There were only three major cities: New York, Chicago and Philadelphia with over a million population. There were half a dozen other metropolitan [...]
Tags: American history·corporations·economic history·Economics·history·income distribution·income inequality·manufacturing·Medicare·political history·Politics·Social Security·taxation·taxes·unions
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
Unemployment, Job Creation, and Back-of-the-Envelope Economics
March 10th, 2010 · Comments Off · General, Health Care, jobs, Politics
Do you want a job? Do you need a job or know anyone who does? Do you think that there are fewer jobs than are necessary for the workforce right now? Sounds stupid, doesn’t it? Sounds ridiculous. Apparently not to Senators John Kyl of Arizona and Sentor Jim Bunning of Kentucky. Bunning held up unemployment [...]
Tags: Bush recession·domestic manufacturing·Economics·health care reform·job creation·jobs·national debt·recession·Social Security and Medicare·unemployment
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
Tax the Rich.
October 29th, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, Politics
It is about time that we begin to attack the problem of our inadequate national revenues. We have not had sufficient revenues to balance the budget since before Ronald Reagan. After Ronald Reagan’s cutting the tax rates of the top income brackets by 50% and quadrupling the military budget in the early 1980s, we have [...]
Tags: Bush tax cuts·Economics·Health Care·health care reform·tax cuts·taxes
The Two Big Issues: Jobs and Health Care Reform.
October 4th, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, Health Care, Politics
Sunday in October and Congress is back and pundits are shouting over one another on the morning talk shows. Even married political-pundit couples who sit before cameras and the husband says something and the wife contradicts him, regardless of whether what she has to say is true or based on earthly reality. It proves that [...]
Tags: Economics·free trade.·Health Care·health care reform·jobs·Politics·tariffs
Join In an Economic Revolution
October 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, Politics
Rather than complaining about our lives, our incomes, our ability to maintain some kind of minimal lifestyle, it may be time to do what every good militant has done since before Lenin or George Washington….join up. We need to bite the bullet and become more active in some kind of populist group. Some may participate [...]
Tags: carbon tax·Economics·Health Care·import duties·lobbyists·Politics·President Obama·Republicans·tea parties