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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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
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
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 [...]
Tags: Kasich steals votes·Neocons·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·Politics·Republican Governors trying to steal votes·Ric Scott Stealing votes·rigged elections·Right Wing repressing the vote·stealing the vote·Tea Party attempts to steal votes·unions·voter repression
Political War in America–North, South, Rich, Poor
July 7th, 2011 · Comments Off · Economics, Politics, Populism
This is the world we live in. We don’t need political commentators to tell us what is happening. We see it every day in our lives. Our politicians are in a battle, not for themselves, for which they are accused by so many, but for us Americans. Now the divisions are very clear. The Republicans [...]
Tags: John Kasich·medicare and medicaid cuts·Neocon governors·Politics·Ric Scott·Ric Snyder·Scott Walker·teachers benefit cuts
Time for a Military Coup
December 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Politics
It is time for a military coup. It is time for strong leadership to take over the reins of government and start to force some discipline on Congress. In other words, it is time for the Democrats to consider a candidate who has really good leadership and administrative skills and is as tough as nails. [...]
Tags: miliitary coup·military leaders·Politics·presidential politics
Understanding Political Reality
November 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Corporations and Industry, Health Care, Lobbying, Media, Politics
Life is not a game show. The realities of electing the moronic, semi-troglodytic President’s son as President…or having the Supreme-Court-justice son of a rumored Fascist appoint him…should have proved that. From $5 trillion in debt and a balanced budget to a $14 trillion in debt and a commission trying to figure out how to keep [...]
Tags: Health Care·Neoconservative politics·Politics·Republican tax cuts·Republicans·tea party candidates·the national debt
Americans Aren’t Stupid–Just Crazy!
November 1st, 2010 · Comments Off · Politics
This is a message for Americans who would vote for the Corporatists. No..actually, it is more like a rant against these dangerously ignorant voters. Are Americans stupid who would vote for a Senator like Sharron Angle, who would–among other things–try to privatize the Veterans’ Administration? Are Americans stupid who would vote for a Senator like [...]
Tags: Mid-term elections·Neoconservatives·Politics·tea party candidates
Armageddon
October 29th, 2010 · Comments Off · Politics
Here they come, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: McConnell, Vitter, DeMint and Boehner. The voters say: start with a plague on all your houses. Yet they visit the plague itself, the obstructive, propagandistic, elitist Republican Party on all of us. War, famine and death…well, we already have the first (a double-header) and part of [...]
The Common Wisdom
October 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Politics
Here’s something to take into the voting booth. Even though life is complicated and the complexity is compounded by the acceleration of information being fed to us every day…we already know what to do. No one needs to tell us how to live or how to vote or what decisions to make. If you are [...]
The Danger of Armed Insurrection in America Today
October 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · Politics, wars and militarism
We go to work in unnerving heavy traffic, fighting to get there on time so that we won’t be one of those who is on the list for the next layoff. We come home to find out that the neighbor down the street who lost his job 9 months ago and never found another has [...]
Tags: Corporatism·Neocons·Neoconservative·Neoconservative propaganda·Politics·Right Wing·tea parties
The New Republican Aristocracy
September 13th, 2010 · Comments Off · Politics
The United States of America was never meant to be a Socialist or Communist society. Not merely because Communism has been characterized by the Soviet or the Chinese or the Cuban models as a pagan system. Nor that they turned out to be top-down authoritarian dictatorships. There was never the idea that each person in [...]
Tags: American political aristocracy·Politics·Republican Right Wing politics
Ric Scott Strikes Again.
August 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Culture, Health Care, Politics
Ric Scott is the Republican nominee for Governor of the state of Florida. We have had times in this country when governors of states were some of the most reprehensible people one could imagine. We have had people like Orville Faubus of Arkansas who said that black children would go to school with white children [...]
Tags: candidates·Columbia-HCA scandal·health care lobbyist·Medicare fraud·medicare insurance fraud·Neocon candidates·Neocon scum·Neocons·Politics·Republican candidates·Ric Scott
A Populist Plan to Restore the Economy
August 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Capitalism, Economics, jobs, Politics, Populism
This will short and to the point. This is a simple plan to handle a simple problem. Yes, it is not as complicated by a factor of 1000 as the Neoconservative Republicans in Congress and all their Right Wing radio commentators and corporate-sponsored lobbying “think tanks” like Cato, Heritage, AEI and others too numerous to [...]
Tags: a populist plan·an economic plan to restore the economy·creating jobs·jobs·Neocon economics·Neoconservatism·Politics·Populism·restoring the economy·the economy·the Great Bush Recession·the recession·unemployment
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