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What has happened to this country…
As they say, “A rose is a rose, not matter what you call it.”
This picture tells you all you need to know about the ignorance that is the Tea Party… especially at the grass roots level. The Tea Party is not really a “grass roots” movement. It is fed and led and by several cynical, greedy individuals working in the background.
When I was around 13 I found myself in a vehicle with a gentleman with a serious drinking problem. This particular day he was far past intoxicated into stumbling drunk. At one point he did ask me to drive. However, having never driven anything more than a bicycle up until that point and being scared to death I unwisely declined. In retrospect taking the keys away from him and being stranded would have been the better option.
Shortly thereafter I found myself an observer in a game chicken at 70 miles per hour. From comments spewing from this individual’s mouth, I do not think staying alive was high on his list of priorities. Someone once said that God watches out for fools and drunks, and there was a double dose going on that day. No one was injured, no accident ensued, and the destination was arrived at.
Currently in Washington what is transpiring is a game of chicken Continue reading “Chicken at a Trillion Miles per Hour”
Some how this song seems so appropriate for the times I am afraid are a-coming.
Hard times are here again.
Folks are hunkerin’ down.
All the lost and lonely men,
Slowly leaving town.
Travelling by their thumbs,
Some are ridin’ blind,
Hoping things are better somewhere,
Somewhere down the line.
Don’t you worry Lucy, love.
See your mama through.
Soon as daddy gets his job,
He’s gonna send for you.
Hard times are here again.
All the wise old men,
Told us there was no way we’d have,
Times like these again.
We gave them all the power.
Gave them our belief.
We listened and we trusted,
And we landed on relief. Continue reading “Hard Times Are Here Again”
“If corporations and households taking in $1 million or more in income each year were now paying taxes at the same annual rates as they did back in 1961, the IPS researchers found, the federal treasury would be collecting an additional $716 billion a year… the federal debt to investors would almost totally vanish over the next decade.”
From an article by Sam Pizzigati — Plutocracy: If Corporations and the Rich Paid 1960s-Level Taxes, the Debt Would Vanish
When everyone has a piece of the pie, you may have seconds. To whom more is given, more is expected. American corporations need to remember that they need to dance with the one that brought them, the US of A.
Our current political/economic crisis is not that hard a problem to solve. We as a collective group should not let greed rule the day. We are all in this together, lets act like it. The American dream should not, must not include la noblesse. Keep your Marquis and Vicomte where they belong, to history.
“Thankfully, for the rest of us, Robertson’s many past predictions of our collective demise were so inane they might as well have been announced on an aircraft carrier with a “Mission Accomplished” banner in the background.”
From the AlterNet.org article For God’s Sake: The Idiocy of “Divine Inspiration” In Politics
This is video from MoveOn.org. It features former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who IMHO is one best economists we have in the public forum. The other one I like is Paul Krugman. Both are so dead on that it is scary. Unfortunately, money speaks louder than common sense.
Since we have been going on about uncircumcised tally whackers… John Stewart of the Daily Show is adding to the fun.
A fictional hip-hop battle over economics between Lord Keynes and Friedrich Hayek.
ENJOY!
Hip-Hop Ecomonic Lesson
The United States of America is involved in a civil war. Sadly, most of the population is not aware of the war raging around them. It is a war for the heart and soul of America and the American dream.
On the left side of the Koch-Kennedy line are millions of ordinary folks. They only want the chance to work, and to work at a decent wage. They want to be able to raise families, pay their bills, get reasonable healthcare, and to not fear old age as a time poverty and sickness. As a bonus they want to be able to have a savings so that they do not have to live paycheck to paycheck. Ideally, there is enough money left over after this for some recreation. Perhaps it is just me, but I do not see these as unreasonable desires. There are roughly 280,000,000 folks that probably fit into this category, about 90% of our population.
On the right side of the Koch-Kennedy line Continue reading “The United States is in a Civil War”