We have talked about the problems with our economy. We have discussed how they have been caused by a cynical use of failed economic policies by Republican politicians backed by billionaires and giant corporations. But one person sticks out to us as analogous to the entire period of Neo-Conservative dominance of the weak American mind. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'tax cuts for the rich'
The Failure of Conservative Economics Part VI – Our Current Problems and Why
March 26th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Economics, Politics, Populism
Tags: Economics·national debt·Neoconservative·Politics·tax cuts for the rich·unemployment
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
It’s the Economy…Or Is It?
July 4th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Democracy, Economics, Politics, Populism, taxes
Sometimes it seems that economists live in a world different from ours. We have bills to pay, jobs to keep, children to educate. The formulas that economists constantly elaborate upon seem to have little to do with daily life. Of course that is not true. The outcome of macroeconomic calculation can have an enormous impact [...]
Tags: Bush·Cheney·conservative economics·conservatives·deficits·national debt·Neocons·Neoconservatives·Republican obstruction·Ronald Reagan·tax cuts for the rich·top one percent
How Conservatism Becomes Fascism
June 23rd, 2012 · 2 Comments · ALEC, Democracy, Fascism, Human Rights, jobs, Lobbying, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes
In 1946, in one of the great cosmopolitan cities of Europe, ancient and yet contemporary, with a tradition of culture, music, popular culture and modern art, an old woman, dressed in a ragged coat, with an old woolen bandana wrapped around her head dragged a small cart down the street. The formerly popular neighborhood was [...]
Tags: ALEC·ALEC's paid legislators·Corporatism·lobbyists·national debt·Neo-Fascism·Neo-Fascist Republicans·Neoconservative propaganda·Republican obstruction·Right Wing·Right Wing Propaganda·tax cuts for the rich·Tea Party Fascists
Newt Gingrich’s Laughable Run for President
March 1st, 2012 · 3 Comments · Capitalism, Health Care, Lobbying, Politics, Populism, Social Security, taxes
Newt Gingrich is actually a pretty smart guy. He has a little bit of Reagan in him. He likes to entrance you with a story. But then you find out the story was just that…a story…fiction…unreality. His moderate intelligence is wistfully scattered like dandelion spores in the Autumn breeze among his confused and competing thoughts. [...]
Tags: Corporatism·Gingrich campaign·Gingrich Right Wing policies·Gingrich running for President·Health Care·health insurance industry·jobs·national debt·Neoconservative propaganda·Newt Gingrich·Politics·tax cuts for the rich·unemployment
The Son-in-law Senator from Wisconsin
February 23rd, 2012 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Economics, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes, The Budget
The nice thing about “stupid” is that you don’t have to make anything up or manipulate anything or try to exaggerate anything…stupid is as stupid does. Rarely, however, do public men who are so stupid that you wonder how they can tie their shoes allow their stupidity to show up in the clear, bright glare [...]
Tags: Bemis·Corporatism·Curwood·Neocons·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·PACUR·Republican obstruction·Right Wing Propaganda·Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin·tax cuts for the rich·tea party·tea party candidates·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
OCCUPY AMERICA!
October 26th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Culture, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
The last big show of Populist sentiment in this country was when the people of Wisconsin stood up against an oppressive Governor and a neo-Fascist Republican legislature who wanted to dismantle the state government, give away tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks to wealthy business owners, and pit one average middle class family [...]
Tags: Corporatism·health insurance industry·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·President's jobs bill·Right Wing·tax cuts for the rich·unemployment
Returning the Great American Middle Class
October 21st, 2011 · Comments Off · Politics, Populism
This is about returning government to the People. This is about returning the Middle Class to America. If you read this and you are not a Republican, you will understand it immediately. When you do, you should send it to everyone you know and tell them to send it to everyone they know. Now they [...]
Tags: Corporatism·Economics·health care reform·national debt·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·tax cuts for the rich
Neocon Lies About Taxes and Austerity
July 10th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Politics, Populism, taxes, The Budget, Wall Street
We have to stay on point, stay focused. The time has passed when the average American family can be civil and or laid back about what is happening in society. The Neoconservatives are blindly working for big capitalism to drive down wages, reduce the average equity or net worth of Americans, and control all of [...]
Tags: do tax cuts raise revenues·Neocon lies on taxes·tax cuts·tax cuts for the rich·tax increases·tax loopholes for corporations
The Trouble with the Trouble with the Economy
June 13th, 2011 · Comments Off · Economics, Politics, taxes
We’ve got trouble. Right here in Washington City. And that starts with a “T” and that rhymes with a “G” and that stands for GOP! The Neocon Party is out to use the economy to cause massive trouble for American citizens. The Republicans want to slash spending because…they say…we are going over the cliff. If [...]
Tags: cutting Social Security and Medicare·Medicare and Social Security·Obama's budget·tax cuts for the rich·the Pawlenty budget plan·the Republican Budget plans·the Ryan Budget plan
The Reagan Legacy
February 9th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, Politics
The American scene has changed since 1980 and not for the better. What is our biggest problem today? That’s right: the national debt. Everything to do with the national debt goes back to Ronald Reagan. And it is much more complex and sinister than just the numbers, which themselves are staggering. From the end of [...]
Tags: national debt·Neocon economics·Neocon politics·Reagan deficits·Reaganomics·Ronald Reagan·tax cuts for the rich·the Reagan Legacy
A Tale of Two Senators
January 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Economics, Politics, wars and militarism
One is tough; the other is a slug. You decide which is which. Does anyone remember the old commercial about the guy who drives the guy to the snowplow? How does the guy who runs the snowplow actually get to the snowplow? The answer in that case happened to be Volkswagon. But there is often [...]
Tags: Inspector General·Neocon Senators·Neocon tax cuts·Senator Claire McCaskill·Senator Scott Brown·spending in Afghanistan·spending in Iraq·tax cuts for the rich
The Great Neoconservative Tax Fallacy
January 16th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Politics, taxes
Since Ronald Reagan was elected, the whole thrust of the Conservative and now the Neoconservative movement in Right Wing Republican politics is to tell people a huge lie. It is a lie that started out simply as a lack of understanding by Reagan of economics and business. But, because of his popularity, and a severe [...]
Tags: austerity programs·Neoconservative austerity plans·Neoconservative lies and propaganda·Neoconservative tax policies·tax cuts·tax cuts for the rich
18 Needy Families
December 16th, 2010 · Comments Off · Politics, taxes
Tags: Neoconservative tax policy·Republican poitical obstruction.·tax cuts for the rich·tax policy·taxes·The Super-Rich