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...
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...
Nationalize Natural Gas Production and Save America.
There is one simple and secure way to jump start the economy and sustain it over a decade. That one simple idea is to...
The Republican Recession and a Budget for Billionaires
How do we explain the tragic situation in which we now find the country? The simple way to explain it is to say that,...
Grover Norquist: Lobbyist for the Rich
Grover Norquist is without question the kind of nerd that most working-class Democrats and Liberals like to attack. He comes from an affluent Republican...
The Failure of Conservatism and the Future of American Economics. Part...
In 1946, in the shadow of the carillon tower on the campus of the University of Chicago, an economist by the name of Milton...
Drilling Our Way to a Balanced Budget
The American Petroleum Instititute bankrolled a series of television commercials in which a very emphatic blonde parades through a series of set ups that...
Neocon Lies About Taxes and Austerity
We have to stay on point, stay focused. The time has passed when the average American family can be civil and or laid back...
The Economics of Robert Reich.
Many short men are taller than Robert Reich. But as they said about Ari Onassis (who wasn’t that short, Ms. Onassis was just a...
Republicans and “Tea Party” Billionaires Attack Social Security
One of the attacks on the Middle Class being undertaken skillfully by the Koch Brothers and the Phil Anschutzes and the Rush Limbaughs and...
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...
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...
Miscellaneous Right Wing Attacks on the People
by Joseph O'Shaughnessy
There are so many things gone wrong today that we can only list some of them and point out the insanity of...
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...
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...