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Here Comes the Election Year Propaganda

January 27th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Economics, Health Care, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism, taxes

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Jobs and the Current American Economic Disaster

October 13th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, jobs, Politics, Populism, Wall Street

Since the Fall of 2008, the U.S. economy a dynamic enterprise of about $15 trillion dollars, as measured in employment, has fallen by about 8 million people. There were already about 7 million people unemployed, or 7% by the end of 2007, a roller coaster ride up and down after the Clinton Administration when unemployment [...]

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Unless You Are a Millionaire–or a Bigot–You Should Not Vote Republican.

October 10th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Politics, Populism

It is time that we all faced facts, looked at ourselves in the mirror and asked ourselves who we are. If you are part of a group that makes racial slurs and condones the bigoted signs of demonstrators or laughs at the racist jokes of radio commentators, or applauds the disrespect for the Presidency of [...]

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The Parable of the Thieves

September 24th, 2011 · Comments Off · Culture, Politics, Populism

——————————————– 1-60-220 President, Senate, House of Representatives. Democratic in 2012 Nothing is more important, no matter who you are. Save America. ——————————————– When reason fails, people fall back on superstition. The American society has long worked under the rationale that hard work creates abundance and abundance may solve all our earthly ills. When that logic, [...]

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Fascist Republicans Stealing Votes

September 12th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Politics, Populism

What is the essential element in a free society? It is the independent, uninfluenced, unimpeded opportunity to vote for the candidate of your choice. You may be influenced by media or by an organization or by friends or a political party to vote a certain way. But if the candidate turns out to be a [...]

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The Astonishing, Incomprehensible Mind of the of the American Neocon-Fascist

July 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off · Health Care, jobs, Lobbying, Politics, Populism, taxes

Only today, only in the most recent polls are we beginning to see the larger group of Americans turning around at some of the comments by the Tea Party and the other Neoconservative Republicans and saying: “What did he say? Did I hear that correctly?” Only now are the vast majority of normal Americans beginning [...]

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Is Tim Pawlenty Dumber than Palin or Bachmann?

June 8th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Politics

Here’s an imaginative new platform for a Republican Candidate. Tim Pawlenty’s blistering slogan is: “A Better Deal.” Huh? That’s it? For God’s sake, governor, get your own motto; don’t fall back on Liberal mottoes for policies that actually worked. The New Deal and the Fair Deal and the New Frontier…Democratic slogans for when the United [...]

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A Time for Action

May 27th, 2011 · Comments Off · Lobbying, Politics, Wall Street

Normally, we all look to events for encouragement or emotional uplift that demands that we get up out of our chairs. Not everyone. Some people are motivated 24/7/365 against injustice, denial of human rights or intense need by some member or segment of society. When Haiti happened, for example, or when the monster earthquakes hit [...]

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The Massacre of the Middle Class

May 7th, 2011 · Comments Off · Human Rights, Labor, Politics, Populism

In 2010, Americans were actually called upon to vote whether or not they would like to create an oligarchy, a ruling elite, that would remove all political power from the average citizen. In some states they voted to do it. Now some are saying that they made a mistake and want a do-over. In Wisconsin, [...]

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Union-busting in Wisconsin

February 18th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Human Rights, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism

There is a strong game plan abroad in the land to bust unions. Most unions these days are for government workers. So the new Neocon Republican governors are out to break those unions, in Ohio, and New Jersey and Florida, and most prominently in Wisconsin. Governor Scott Walker the Governor of Wisconsin only since November [...]

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Imported Americans — Part Two

February 17th, 2011 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Human Rights, Politics, Populism

The turn of the century saw the African American as largely uneducated, not owning the place he lived, without education, working as a sharecropper or on a tenant farm or in some menial job. While the second half of the 20th Century would see major improvements in voting rights, job opportunities, social services and particularly [...]

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Imported Americans — Part I

February 15th, 2011 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Human Rights, Politics

We don’t talk much about our Imported Americans. Yes, they have been here almost as long as our Native Americans. They hold an equally sainted place in our memory, the long suffering, the noble, the faithful, the underpaid, abused and isolated. The genuine smile, the graceful politeness, the relaxed demeanor, tipping their hats to women…all [...]

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Telling Lies on Sunday

January 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off · jobs, Politics

Is it more of a sin to tell a lie on Sunday, the “Lord’s Day” than on any other day? Apparently not for Congress. They seem to have gone completely off the rails. They apparently think that “God,” that ephemeral entity that laid down rules thousands of years ago but who allowed humans to handle [...]

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Time for New Democratic Leadership

December 7th, 2010 · Comments Off · Politics

Someone said recently that his mother, would turn over in her grave. The intelligent and earthy mother of three boys and sister of five outstanding athletes was also tough. She would, he said, never, ever understand turning away from the first African-American President after the hope and dream of electing one–and a man of such [...]

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