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Can Pensions Afford Recovery?
Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan wrote another excellent academic paper, Can Capitalists Afford Recovery?: Economic, financial and social commentators from all directions and persuasion are...
View ArticleOpen Letter to MoveOn
Dear MoveOn, It is with great sadness that I watch you making last-gasp desperate attempts to save Obamacare and Obama’s reputation. You look foolish when you say that “Of course, it’s a good law” at...
View ArticleSocial Work under US Capitalist Empire
I am a graduate of Skidmore College. I majored in social work. I chose to major in social work because there was little else offered that I could relate to personally and politically. Most courses and...
View ArticleLife or Dearth?
Of the many, many crimes for which our trusted leaders should be doing serious jail time arguably the most egregious of them all is theft – from those who trust them most. After all, it’s not as if...
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Shanty Town USA — When We Finally Agree Capitalism is About Being Poor
It’s that Ebeneezer and Grinch time of year. Hooverville. The great American fat crocodile tear with stories of legless troops getting a bag of groceries and free big screen TV and compact car. All...
View ArticleIt’s Not a Wonderful Life for Many
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is relevant these days with many in Congress playing the role of Scrooge before he was visited by the Christmas spirits. Dickens was greatly concerned about the...
View ArticleOptimistic Thought for the New Year
I don’t care if you are 75 and retired, 61 and just about to reach the age when you become eligible for Social Security, 50 and looking out 15 or 20 years to the time when you’ll need to retire, or 25...
View ArticleA Soulless, Digitally Concussed Western World
The USA and European Union (EU) continue on their downward trajectory in the 14th year of 21st Century. The perpetual state of war against terror, drugs, immigrants, the press and whistle-blowers moves...
View ArticleThe Looting of Ukraine Has Begun
According to a report in Kommersant-Ukraine, the finance ministry of Washington’s stooges in Kiev who are pretending to be a government has prepared an economic austerity plan that will cut Ukrainian...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Coming Minimum Wage Restoration
If you haven’t yet heard of Ron Unz, you may soon. The conservative, successful software developer, theoretical physicist from Harvard and former publisher of the American Conservative magazine is...
View ArticleThe Republican War Against Social Security
Most Americans have supported Social Security ever since it was enacted into law in 1935. Republican presidential nominee, Alf Landon, made the repeal of Social Security the main issue in the 1936...
View ArticleFathers and Sons: The Invisible Ladder
Act 1 Setting: Restaurant, where four middle-age friends, who have known each other since their university days in the early 1970’s, meet for lunch. Professor: Should we share a bottle of wine? Lawyer:...
View ArticleNew Employment Figures in the Shadow of a Fragile Economy
Economist Richard Wolff says workers are returning to jobs with lower wages, fewer benefits, and less job security than they had before the financial crisis hit.
View ArticleGo West Young Han
November 18, 2014: it’s a day that should live forever in history. On that day, in the city of Yiwu in China’s Zhejiang province, 300 kilometers south of Shanghai, the first train carrying 82...
View ArticleThe Koch Brothers’ Party
Most of us know that the NSA is spending billions of our taxpayer dollars to track our every move, though the data is collected and only used if some hired dude, following procedures that look for...
View ArticleThe Disorder of Threat
In March 1982, conservative theoreticians James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling published a brief article in The Atlantic entitled “Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety” that was to...
View ArticleBoomer MRDs Could Bolster Safety Net
You know the safety net is in danger when lawmakers fire away and claim they’re trying to save it. On the first day of the new Congress, the House warned that Social Security benefits might need...
View ArticlePrivatizing Public Services
The basic conservative movement has never altered its views. It has always been based on the domination of society by an aristocracy, but its approach has varied to suit the times. Since the ascendency...
View ArticleThe Public Sector Is a Milk Cow for Private Enterprise
Social Security and Medicare are under attack from Wall Street, conservatives, and free market economists. The claims are that these programs are unaffordable and that the programs can be run more...
View ArticleGreenspan Finally Tells the Awful Truth about Social Security
During a presentation to the Peter J. Peterson Foundation’s, Fiscal, 2015, Summit last month, former Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, was asked about the status of the Social Security Trust...
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