Miscellaneous Right Wing Attacks on the People

by Joseph O'ShaughnessyThere are so many things gone wrong today that we can only list some of them and point out the insanity of...

Down Trump’s Golden Brick Road

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...

Trump: A Fantasy of Being President

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

Social Security Revisited.

On May 28, 2009, in this space, we published a well-researched article entitled, “Who Stole Your Social Security and Why?” The idea was to...

Hedge Fund Managers Are Coming for Your State Pension Funds.

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

The Case For Liberal Economics

We have serious economic problems.As a country, we need to move ahead. China is buying up the world’s resources. Soon Russia will do the...

Democrats in 2014

If you talk to leading progressives these days, you'll be sure to hear this message: The Democratic Party should embrace the economic populism of...

The Land of Opportunity–for the Koch Brothers.

In the south Bronx, the unemployment rate is 19%. In Detroit and other metro areas it can be even higher than that. The opportunity...

The Legacy of Ronald Reagan

It is time that we took a step back from the precipice that is the current American political atmosphere and try to understand how...

The Greatest Robbery in the History of the World

In 2008, the top income earners in this country and major corporations and the Republican Party and Wall Street completed the greatest theft of...

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...

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 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,...

Time Out –A Look at the Republican Non-budget

Before we can return to the Failure of Conservative Economics, we must address a current issue on today's Neo-Conservative agenda...the Paul Ryan Republican Budget...

Time-Out. A Brief Discussion of the Sequester

(Part V of The Failure of Conservative Economics will be posted following this post, in a few days. But we thought that what is...