Economics

Medicare for All is a plan to bring health care to everyone in the United States, primarily to citizens but also, in some form, accessible to non-citizens, such as exchange workers and students and perhaps in some form of payment to non citizens resident aliens, pending naturalization.

byJoseph O’ShaughnessyOne aspect of American life is becoming more evident each and every day. The propaganda that has been spread using the money of...

What is income inequality and what does it mean to the average person? Does it matter to you or me if someone makes 20...

The Republican leader in the Senate is trying to rush through a secret health care proposal, bring it to the floor of the Senate...

It’s been a quarter of a year now, a little more, since the end of the Obama Presidency. The contrast, and the events that...

We have been mislead by Republicans about Obamacare. If health care is about the American people, then Obamacare is good and workable and economically sound. If health care is about making health insurance companies profitable, and not caring for the American people, then the Republican plan is better...but only for the health insurance industry.

by Joseph D. O'ShaughnessyI normally don't sign what we all call posts. I don't even refer to them as "posts." Rather, I call them...

Have you seen “Where to Invade Next,” the title of the latest film by gadfly documentarian, Michael Moore? I guess his films are supposed...

Paul Ryan and the Republican/Fascist leaders in Congress want to repeal Obamacare and leave you with the same kind of health care you had...

We must examine the Trump infrastructure plan.At first, it sounds, well, pretty good. And then you get the details.First, why do you think Trump...

Donald Trump recently laid out his economic policies in a speech in Detroit, Michigan. It is no surprise he did it there. Detroit is...

The world is changing  again. Instead of a 40-something running for President, we have two 60 or 70-somethings. Maybe it takes that long to...

Hitler, above all, was a racist. He thought that interbreeding between different races was wrong, but not merely wrong—disastrously wrong. He thought that Darwin’s...

Scott Walker is riding the Clown Car Express. He’s the evil clown, the one you always hear about who scares children. He is scary....

One of the most serious and largest scams now being perpetrated by the Republican Party on the American public is the “unfunded liability” state...