Homeless in Seattle…and Lakewood…and Reno…and more…

Tent cities are growing all over the country. Over 47 million people now live below the poverty line. There are growing numbers of tent...

How Conservatism Becomes Fascism

In 1946, in one of the great cosmopolitan cities of Europe, ancient and yet contemporary, with a tradition of culture, music, popular culture and...

A Populist Plan to Restore the Economy

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...

American Stagnation

America has never been richer. Private assets amount to over $80 trillion, more than four times the national debt and the GDP. Yet the...

Another Look at Unions

It is time to revisit the issue of unions. Why are unions important? They are important because unions represent the people. Government used to...

Jobs, Wind, Solar, Natural Gas, Kerry, Boxer, Carbon and the Obstructionists

We need jobs and we need them soon. We have about 15.1 million people unemployed, with jobs falling now at the (slowing) rate of...

To Find a Job, Fire a Republican

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remember the goal: 220-60-1 for 2012. Two-hundred and twenty Democratic House Members, Sixty solid Liberal Democratic Senators and a Democratic President. This is the...

The Failure of Conservative Economics–Pt. IV–Bush, Cheney and Big Government by...

In 1994, in an interview, Milton Friedman said that in the 1990s there is “much less optimism and all the problems have been...

Republicans and Tea Party Demonstrators Are Not Populists.

Populism, as it relates to politics is a theory of action that demands that legislation be written on behalf of the people, and not...

Jobs and the Current American Economic Disaster

Since the Fall of 2008, the U.S. economy a dynamic enterprise of about $15 trillion dollars, as measured in employment, has fallen by about...

Expansion, Not Austerity

We now have a Presidential Commission to make recommendations about the Reagan-Bush-Bush $13 trillion deficit that was created by cutting revenues in half with...

Of the Rich and the Poor in America

Income and wealth inequality in the United States is on the rise again. The gap between the rich and poor was much smaller from...

The Scott Walker Story

Being fair to Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin is very difficult. It is like trying to be fair in analyzing the administration of Benito...

Look For the Union Legacy.

America is a society that is governed by the principle of majority rule. In a free society, some form of majority rule is the...

Neocon Strategy at Work…From Wisconsin and Ohio to Washington D.C.

Here is the Neoconservative Republican political strategy in a nutshell: put your people in a good financially position. When in political power, spend as...