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    The Grim State of the Nation

    February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Economics, Health Care, Politics, energy, jobs

    As we are about to enter the third month of 2010, the nation is in its worst financial and economic condition since, perhaps, 1939. We have large-scale unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcies, homelessness, hunger, lack of living essentials, and many working families with huge credit card debt. The Neoconservative Republicans who control the Republican Party, have [...]

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    A Plan for Jobs and Ending the Recession

    December 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Politics, jobs

    There has been talk recently–finally–about creating jobs. The talk has been about using some of the TARP money to create jobs in various sectors. As a reminder, the TARP funds were those funds used from the Treasury to shore up certain banks and other investment firms plus AIG, which was ostensibly the only insurance firm. [...]

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    The Economy–Will Commercial Real Estate Hold Up Recovery?

    November 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Economics

    The economy is beginning to pick up. Unemployment numbers are falling. About a third of the Stimulus funds are in operation now with more and more coming every day. But there is one snag. The commercial real estate market.
    Commercial real estate has been in trouble for a while, as a result of the general economic [...]

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    The Economy, the Stimulus and Coming Out of the Recession

    October 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Politics

    Economists like to say that the current recession began in December of 2007. But things had not been going well for the average American for some time before that. The recession only made things worse for the average American household. Long before the recession began, things had been in a gradual decline for the average [...]

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    Free Enterprise Is the Province of All Americans, Neo-Conservatives and Liberals.

    October 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Culture, Economics, Politics

    The United States of America is the land of free enterprise. We base all our political and many of our personal decisions on that simple premise. We refer to the United States as the Land of Opportunity. The question we must ask is this: Is it true?
    As you might expect, it is not as simple [...]

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    Tea Party Protestors Should be Blaming Bush, Not Obama.

    September 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics

    If you are reading this and you are one of the demonstrators at the so-called tea parties, there is a lot you obviously don’t know. If you demonstrate against the administration that was elected to restore some rights and some measure of equality for the middle classes then when you protest you are working against [...]

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    Wall Street Journal Under Murdoch: Propaganda Masquerades as Opinion, Opinion as Fact.

    September 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Politics

    In the Wall Street Journal this morning in mid-September 2009, John Taylor, a noted economist from Stanford has determined, in his wisdom, or that of Rupert Murdoch, or his lieutenants, or Roger Ailes or Sean Hannity or Ann Coulter…take your pick when you are dealing with Neocon propaganda…has said that the stimulus did not work. [...]

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    The Choice Between Neoconservative and Progressive Becomes Clearer.

    September 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Health Care, Politics

    There is no mystery about the difficult circumstances in which we find the American economy. Since 1981, when Ronald Reagan cut income taxes for the top bracket, multi-millionaires, from 70% at the top marginal rate, down to 28%, the country has run very large deficits every year. We have been running deficits in the $200 billion [...]

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