Senator Bernie Sanders, STFU
Everything Sanders says is so right on. However, his actions belie his words. He is clearly playing ‘I’m of the people’ politics, even doubting the president’s sincerity in protecting Social Security...
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Was the Misuse of Social Security Money Pre-planned?
The Social Security Trust Fund is empty. It holds no marketable assets with which to pay benefits to the baby boomers. The only thing in the Trust Fund is government IOUs, which can neither be...
View ArticleA Significant Defeat for the Zionist Lobby?
I would like the headline to be a statement but it has to be a question. As I write it looks as though the Zionist lobby realises that it overplayed its hand in smearing Chuck Hagel in the hope of...
View Article17 Camels: Can a Sufi Tale Heal Our Broken World?
America has now degenerated into a nation that cannot walk and chew gum at the same time! This has become painfully clear as, suffering from collective ADHD, we have focused our attention from the...
View ArticleThe Greek Catastrophe: Three Generations of Greek Workers
As Greece enters the sixth year of Europe’s worst economic depression, with 30% of its labor force unemployed and over 52% of its youth jobless, the entire social fabric is unraveling; a suicide rate...
View ArticleThe Magical Mystery Chop, Dice, and Slice Budget
In 2011, before he was the Republican nominee for vice-president, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) proposed a federal budget. He called it, “The Path to Prosperity: Restoring America’s Promise.” Two years...
View ArticleCrashing the 2-Party System
The history of third parties in America is pretty dismal. The system is rigged against them, for one thing. But equally problematic is the lack of focus that leads to infighting and splits whenever a...
View ArticleCutting the Welfare Safety Net Is Not the Way to “Make Work Pay”
How does one assess the cuts to the welfare safety net? Let us, for the sake of argument, put aside whether cutting the deficit should be the priority in the depths of a recession. The argument of the...
View ArticleOn Margaret Thatcher’s Passing
I’m just a tiny, tiny bit sad today. So, Thatcher’s dead. I live in the town where she was born and raised. There are inevitably some who are in deep mourning today, and a few little bunches of flowers...
View ArticleObama’s “Cat Food” Social Security Reform
Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Michael Hudson: Obama’s “bargain” on social security reform will push more retirees into poverty in exchange...
View ArticleFive Proposed Targets for Techno-Social Change
This essay aims to discuss decisive points of technological significance in five realms of social change posited by Yale sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein in a 1996 essay, “The Global Possibilities,...
View ArticleAmerica’s Uncle Sam: Death by a Thousand Cuts
Americans live in the infinite now. They are happy not to be burdened with the knowledge of their past or the long-term future. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy...
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Government Owes $2.7 Trillion to Social Security
The government has embezzled all surplus Social Security revenue, generated by the 1983 payroll tax hike, and spent the money on wars and other government programs. None of the money was saved or...
View ArticleProfiting from Food Stamps, Student Loans, Unemployment
Despite being the richest country in the world, poverty remains an important social issue in the United States. All too often poverty in America is used as a political weapon by both political parties...
View ArticleRonald Reagan and the Great Social Security Heist
Ronald Reagan was one of the most popular presidents in modern history. As a former Hollywood actor, he had an uncommon degree of charisma. The conservatives absolutely loved Reagan for his efforts to...
View ArticleAusterity Hits America
The Government will neither propose nor implement measures which may infringe the rules on the free movement of capital. Neither the State nor other public bodies will conclude shareholder agreements...
View ArticleShutdown: Breaking the Social Contract and Wrecking the Country
There is an old joke about a tortoise saying to a hare, “you can run but you can’t hide.” So it used to be with politicians running for elections and relying on constituent donations — thus sensitive...
View ArticleEmpire Building, the Debt Ceiling, the Budget Deficit, and the Samson Solution
US and world political and economic leaders are faced with what they describe as a ‘systemic catastrophe’: the inability to pay global creditors, including domestic and foreign banks, investors and...
View ArticleHow Maryland Robs Its Most Vulnerable Children
Try this on for size: The Maryland agency overseeing foster care has been appropriating foster children’s assets — orphaned children’s survivor benefits, for example — and handing them over to the...
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