Occupy Wall Street: The View from Davos
A British acquaintance has sent me a link to one of the background documents to be used when world leaders gather for the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland January25-29. The document is called...
View ArticleThe Real Joke: Oppression Through Marginalization
It’s not easy to get the President of the United States to provide meaningful answers to questions regarding issues of serious concern to the population. During a Q&A session with Obama put...
View ArticleSocial Security Garnished for Student Debts
The Social Security program…represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute....
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Trying to Kill Social Security
It seems like every few months alarms are sounded warning US workers that Social Security is going bankrupt. Oftentimes, the follow up to these alarms includes a warning that the only way to save the...
View ArticleSocial Security Money Is Not Like T-bills
Much of the Washington debate over Social Security assumes that the government securities in the trust fund are the same as the bonds owned by the government of China and other U.S. creditors. But they...
View ArticleGovernment Paralysis and the Social Security Trust Fund
Social Security is, today, facing its greatest challenges ever, and it is not at all certain what the future holds for the program. If the surplus revenue, generated by the 1983 payroll tax increase,...
View ArticleThe Great Transformation: From the Welfare State to the Imperial Police State
The United States has experienced the biggest political upheaval in its recent history: the transformation of a burgeoning welfare state into a rapidly expanding, highly intrusive and deeply entrenched...
View ArticleElection Reflects America’s Conservative Era
This year’s presidential campaign is taking place within an extremely conservative era in American political history that will substantially influence the domestic and foreign priorities of the next...
View ArticlePeople as Surplus/Unnecessary Humans
Dealing with superfluous populations has been a vexation shared by all industrial capitalist societies for generations. In other words, the problem for modern rulers and leaders is what to do with...
View ArticleObama’s Social Security Reform: A Grand Bargain or Betrayal?
Senior editor at TRNN, Paul Jay, interviews William K. Black, author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One, teaches economics and law at the University of Missouri — Kansas City (UMKC). Bill...
View ArticleSeize the Time!
There is no need to despair; no need to retreat; and no need to lash out at the liberals cheering Barack Obama’s re-election. Leave all that to those who voted for Mitt Romney. It is their world that...
View ArticleOur Collapsing Economy and Currency
Is the “fiscal cliff” real or just another hoax? The answer is that the fiscal cliff is real, but it is a result, not a cause. The hoax is the way the fiscal cliff is being used. The fiscal cliff is...
View ArticleThe Great Social Security Robbery
The leaders of both major parties, Congress, the White House, the editorial writers, journalists of all the principle newspapers and most academic economists claim that Social Security and Medicare...
View ArticlePlaying to Lose?
If President Obama had been the commander of Allied forces during the invasion of Normandy 1944, he would have cut a deal with the Nazis when they launched the counter-offensive called the Battle of...
View ArticleFiscal Cliff: Time to Call Their Bluff
The “fiscal cliff” has all the earmarks of a false flag operation, full of sound and fury, intended to extort concessions from opponents. Neil Irwin of the Washington Post calls it “a self-induced...
View ArticlePolitics as Usual Doesn’t Work
The fiscal cliff is a self-created bi-partisan drama that demonstrates the failure of traditional politics and the need for mobilized resistance and a new independent political movement. The mass media...
View ArticleFiscal Chicken
Talk show hosts and other bloviators have spent hours giving their versions of the fiscal cliff. In fewer than 750 words, I’ll explain the truth. Taxes and the deficit are intertwined. If Congress...
View ArticleStop Obama’s Ongoing Grand Charade to Cut Social Insurances
Here we go again. President Obama is in round three of his ongoing efforts to cut our important social insurances, such as Social Security and Medicare. Whether he succeeds or not is up to us. We can...
View ArticleIRA Sweet Spot Could Lift America
Congress realizes that Medicare and Social Security lie directly in the path of a demographic tsunami. The first wave of baby boomers has already filed for benefits, and alarm bells are sounding on the...
View ArticleSNAFU 2012 (Situation Normal All F**ked up)
Each year seems to go quicker than the last. This phenomenon is partially related to the shrinking proportion of my life each year represents. It is is also due to the ever-increasing volume of events...
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