Before we can return to the Failure of Conservative Economics, we must address a current issue on today’s Neo-Conservative agenda…the Paul Ryan Republican Budget for 2013. We need to examine the premises here and debunk the stuff that is simply wrong. Paul Ryan announced the Republican Budget on March 12, 2013 and it fell with [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Social Security'
Time Out –A Look at the Republican Non-budget
March 12th, 2013 · Comments Off · ALEC, Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Politics, Populism, Social Security, taxes, The Budget
Tags: Corporatism·Economics·Health Care·national debt·Neoconservative·Politics·Republican Budget·Right Wing Propaganda·Ryan Budget·Social Security·taxes
The Failure of Conservatism and the Future of American Economics. Part I
January 8th, 2013 · Comments Off · ALEC, Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Labor, Lobbying, obstruction, Politics, Populism, Social Security, taxes, The Budget, Wall Street, wars and militarism
In 1946, in the shadow of the carillon tower on the campus of the University of Chicago, an economist by the name of Milton Friedman began teaching economics to some of the brightest students in the country. His particular approach to economics was by and large what might be called neo-classical liberalism. It is a [...]
Tags: conservatism·conservative economics·Corporatism·Economics·lobbyists·Milton Friedman·national debt·Neoclassical Liberalism·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·Politics·Republican obstruction·Social Security·tax cuts for the rich·unemployment
Republicans and “Tea Party” Billionaires Attack Social Security
July 15th, 2011 · Comments Off · Politics, Populism, taxes, The Budget
One of the attacks on the Middle Class being undertaken skillfully by the Koch Brothers and the Phil Anschutzes and the Rush Limbaughs and the Rupert Murdochs of the world and carried out by their lackeys, Eric Cantor and Mitch McCullough is on Social Security. So let’s take a look at how this organized process [...]
Tags: cutting Social Security Benefits·Neocons trying to kill Social Security·Republican attacks on Social Security·Social Security·Social Security solvent
Let’s Talk About the National Budget.
May 21st, 2011 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, energy, jobs, Politics, taxes, Wall Street, wars and militarism
Phony baloney. Just like Walker in Wisconsin, the talk about “austerity” is a bunch of rich white men talking bull shit about what needs to be done. We don’t need austerity. Not the kind the Republicans are talking about. We need prosperity. You see, the problem with the United States right now is that we [...]
Tags: austerity federal budget·budget cuts·Medicare·raising taxes on the rich·Social Security·tax cuts·taxes
Neocon Scare Tactics on Solvent Social Security
March 4th, 2011 · Comments Off · Human Rights, Politics
Let’s start with a couple of important facts. If we did not have Social Security, virtually every other retired person today would be in deep poverty, even–one might say–begging on the streets. Compared with 1959, when about 35% of those of retirement age were in deep poverty, today only 9% of Americans fall into that [...]
Tags: cuts to Social Security·Neon plans to drain social security·Republican plans to cut Social Security·Social Security
The Populist Solution
January 26th, 2011 · Comments Off · Economics, Politics, Populism
Let’s get right to it. Here’s how a political party that had the interests of the People at heart would balance the budget and fix the economy. 1. Billionaires used to pay 97% of the incomes over a certain amount. They did so because this country gave them the opportunity and the markets to make [...]
Tags: cutting government·job creation·Medicare·neocon propaganda·Paul Ryan·Populism·populist economics·populist party·real austerity programs·Social Security·state if the union·tax increases on the rich
Why Tax Cuts for the Rich? Because They Think They Can.
December 15th, 2010 · Comments Off · Politics, taxes
If you think that we need a reduction in taxes from the Bush-Cheney 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, you need to get the facts. You are being sold a bill of goods, a scam, a lie about taxes so that a few rich men who will benefit greatly want you to think that you will [...]
Tags: government deficits·national debt·Neoncon obstruction·Social Security·tax cuts·tax legislation·taxes
Politics: Save Yourself First – Part II
September 17th, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes
They will always try to get you with words and slogans. Words and slogans are fun but they aren’t facts. The rich are funding much of the media and a whole host of hidden propaganda machines. And they are creating buzz words to influence your thinking. Two of the key words to watch out for [...]
Tags: austerity·budget deficits·cutting Medicare·cutting social services·Neoconservative politics·Social Security·taxes
Politics: Winning in Class Warfare — Part I
September 15th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Culture, Human Rights, jobs, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
In the early evening of a summer night in New York City, or Dallas or Los Angeles, or Miami, there is a slow, quiet movement of long, dark-windowed vehicles. They move quietly to centers of activity where bright lights outline the architecture and gowned women and men in expensive suits emerge, smiling and laughing. The [...]
Tags: austerity·billiionaires·Class warfare·Medicare·Neoconservatism·obstructionism·Social Security·tax breaks for the wealthy·taxes·the rich
No Cuts to Social Security
August 17th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Politics, Populism, taxes
Since 1980, the Republican Party has been made up of Conservatives and since Bush the First’s term made up of Neoconservatives. In the early 1980s they received a gigantic tax cut, reckless and foolish in the extreme…from a top rate of 74% down to a top rate of 28%. That set off a huge conspiracy [...]
Tags: Bush tax cuts·cutting Social Security·marginal tax rates·Neoconservative spending·Social Security·taxes
How to Fix Social Security and Balance the Budget
August 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Economics, Politics, Populism
Michael Hiltzik’s August 6 column in the LA TIMES was pretty thought-provoking on the current Social Security dialogue. And it leads to some rather interesting points that should be raised about Social Security solvency, Medicare, Medicaid, and the future of entitlement programs. It also brings up some questions on taxes. We will show exactly how [...]
Tags: budget deficits·entitlements·Medicare·Military spending·national debt·Neocons·Social Security·tax the rich
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
The Next American Revolution
February 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, Health Care, Media, Politics, wars and militarism
It is time for all Americans to stop what they are doing and think about the future. Your future has already been mapped out for you by a relatively small percentage of Americans, who want to eliminate the middle class. The Neoconservatives, on a mission for the very wealthy and huge international corporations, have the [...]
Tags: Bush·Bush tax cuts·deficits·health care reform·how to pay for deficits·Iraq war·lobbyists·Medicare·national debt·Neoconservative propaganda·Neoconservative think tanks·Neoconservatives·Reagan·Reagan tax cuts·Social Security·tax cuts·tax reform·wars