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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Politics'
A Populist Plan to Restore the Economy
August 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Capitalism, Economics, jobs, Politics, Populism
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
Health Care Reform and the Fight for American Democracy
March 24th, 2010 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Politics
So…we did it. We passed health care reform. It is simple and basic stuff. The Neocons would like to make it more complicated than it is. Here is what you get and when you get it. This year– Young adults will stay on parents’ medical plan if they wish to age 26. Insurers cannot cancel [...]
Tags: Fascist Party·Health Care·health care reform program·political thugs and violence·Politics·Right Wing groups·White Supremacists
We Can’t All “Just Get Along.” Here’s Why.
February 4th, 2010 · Comments Off · Media, Politics
Our political system is broken. It didn’t happen accidentally. It was deliberate and it has been happening for a long time, gradually, methodically. Corporations have taken all their chips and gone all-in with the Neoconservative Republicans. And the Neocons are now 100% for corporations. They are the arm of corporations in Congress. Take the Republican [...]
Tags: legislation·lobbyists·neocon political ideology·Politics·Right Wing
The Myth of the American Political Center
December 28th, 2009 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Media, Politics
Because of the intensity of the debate on health care reform, and the Republican ideological war on the middle class, we are now hearing much talk about the “American Center,” the supposedly independent political middle. The fact is that there is no political middle, polls notwithstanding. The only poll that matters, politicians will tell you [...]
Tags: Health Care·Media·media and politics·Politics·Republicans·Right Wing
Before Neocons Call People “Nazis” They Should Look in the Mirror.
December 19th, 2009 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Media, Politics
Shame on the Neoconservatives, as they call themselves. They want to be called “Republicans.” But we can’t really call them Republicans, can we? They are not traditional Republicans. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower were more or less traditional Republicans. Neoconservatives are more like the old Dixiecrats. In fact the manic racist Strom Thurmond [...]
Tags: Add new tag·Cheney·health care reform·health insurance industry·Hitler·Lieberman·lobbyists·Lunatic fringe·Nazi·Nazis·neocon·Neoconservative·Politics·President Obama·Right Wing·Rupert Murdoch·tea parties
Reality, Fantasy and Leadership
November 11th, 2009 · Comments Off · Culture, Politics
Since the latter part of the last decade of the 20th Century, the once-great United States of America has fallen into a trap. That trap is that we can continue to be great without paying the price for greatness. Everyone knows the price but no one is willing to pay it. The price is a [...]
Tags: Bush administration·Europe·fantasy·fundamentalist christians·Gore·leadership·Lieberman·Lunatic fringe·political reality·Politics·reality·recession·Republicans·Right Wing·slavery·tea parties·war
What’s in a Name? Republicans Are Now the Neoconservative Obstructionist Party
October 31st, 2009 · Comments Off · General, Health Care, Media, Politics
Shakespeare and the current Republican Party do not exactly fit within the same imagery. We do not see Sarah Palin quoting Shakespeare, something that might not surprise us to hear from either the President or the Vice President. The point is that we have long, long since reduced our expectations of erudition or even fiscally [...]
Tags: health care reform·lobbyists·media and politics·neocon·Neoconservative·Politics·Republicans·Right Wing
Another Cheney…Another Wave of “Terror?”
October 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · Politics
Danger! Deep, dark, debilitating, fear! Fear of death, fear of assassins, bombs, explosions, knives, men in black masks, hiding…waiting! Anarchy and people murdered in their sleep! No it’s not Shakespeare or Edgar Allen Poe. It’s Dick Cheney. That is what Dick Cheney was selling and a lot of people bought it. We must invade Iraq, [...]
Tags: Al Queada·Cheney·fear·Halliburton·Iraq war·Politics·terrorists·war profiteering
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 [...]
Tags: Conservative·economy·Free Enterprise·Liberal·Neo-Conservative·Politics
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
The Economic Morality of Health Care Systems
September 21st, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, Health Care, Politics
Why is health care so expensive? Each American citizen, each identifiable taxpayer, pays about $7,000 per year for health care. On average, that means American families normally pay about $14,000 a year for health care (with some of it paid by employers) where other countries, far less affluent than ours, spend about $8,000…and that is being [...]
Tags: Economics·government medicine·health care reform·Politics·socialized medicine·T.R. Reid·world health care