On Social Security, the Middle Class and Real Retirement
An email has been circulating lately that starts off “Social Security becomes a Federal Benefit Check.”
This email suggests that Social Security is a...
Values, Voters, Loonies and Liberty
The Tea Party Republicans recently released some video from the Voter Values Summit. One can only wonder at the thinking process, if any, in...
Rich Getting Richer. Poor Getting Poorer.
In the United States today, the rich are getting richer and the poor are becoming poorer. The facts are clear. They are reported by...
Putin and the Russian Economy
In the Fall of 1952, Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin was born in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, to Vladimir Spirodonovich and Maria Ivanovna Putin. His father...
The Health Care Lobby’s Last Ditch Attempt to Stop Obamacare
The Patient Accessibility and Affordable Care Act, also known popularly as “Obamacare” heads into the home stretch of initiation this fall, October 1st, to...
The Imported Americans–Part II, From Reagan to Obama
The movement towards civil rights and a color-blind society ended when Ronald Reagan took office in 1981. After only 15 years, the affirmative actions...
Trayvon Martin and the Imported Americans, Revisited
On the night of February 26th, 2012, a 17-year-old black man in Sanford, Florida was returning to his father’s fiance’s home in a gated...
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...
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...
Inflation Versus Inaction
We now get a lot of activity from the theorists who say inflation is right around the corner. Every little up-tick in the interest...
Monetary Madness and Economic Cowardice
Since 2008 and the onset of the Great Bush Depression, we have seen some of the most remarkable and inane economic theories ever proposed...
Starting Over in the New World
There is an ongoing petulant argument being carried out in what one might call the economic and political press.
Should we cut government which...
The Failure of Conservative Economics Part VII — Solutions
So what are the solutions to our economic problems?
They’d better be good. The Bush Administration left us with an enormous mess.
In...
The Failure of Conservative Economics Part VI – Our Current Problems...
We have talked about the problems with our economy. We have discussed how they have been caused by a cynical use of failed economic...
The Failure of Conservative Economics Part V – The Bush-Cheney Depression
The United States has been in decline since 1981.
That was when Ronald Reagan’s charismatic personality took over the country. Reagan was the all-time,...