The basic fallacy of “privatization”
I put “privatization” in quotes because it is really corporatization, and quite frankly is a much better term for the further theft of taxpayer dollars for the well connected corporate class. The...
View ArticleBuilding the New Paradigm for Money in Politics
The single largest problem in American politics is corporate control of the democratic process. We have watched over the years as moneyed interests have built vast networks of think tanks, bought up...
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Hard times for the pure of heart: is it possible to live ethically in modern...
I think we’d all love to live every phase of our lives in happy accord with high moral and ethical principles. We’d love it if we were never confronted by logical contradictions and cognitive...
View ArticleGE to return $3.2 billion tax benefit #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement
While the hoax went down yesterday I still think Lee Camp’s Moment of Clarity is great and pertinent. Posted this yesterday on my own site. My partner and I are getting set to mail in our taxes before...
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A simple country boy’s solution to the budget “crisis”
Some conservatives see all these fact-laden critiques of our various GOP manufactroversies (see Ryan, Paul) and wonder where are the Democratic plans to solve the financial crisis? (I have been asked...
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Half a century of work and pay in an hour’s time
Originally posted at my own site. Very few things are certain in life other than life and death. In the middle we work roughly 50 years of our life and pay taxes. That much we know for sure. For the...
View ArticleThe 1% – They Always Have Some Mighty Fine Whine
With their “We are the 99%” chant, Occupy Wall Street protesters call for and end to the corporate corruption of democracy, to America’s two-tiered system of justice, and to the rigged economics that...
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Washington Ignored The People, And Now You’ve Got #Occupy
What did the politicians in Washington think would happen? They forgot about the “We, the People” part of our Constitution. After bailing out the banks and bankers and interests of the top 1% they...
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Free Trade Or Democracy, Can’t Have Both
Recent stories about the conditions of Apple’s contractors in China have opened many people’s eyes about where our jobs, factories, industries and economy have been going, and why. The stories exposed...
View ArticleDoubting the Austerians
In March 1999, Harvey Cox of Harvard Divinity School wrote of the emergence of a new “Supreme Deity, the only true God, whose reign must now be universally accepted and who allows for no rivals.” — The...
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