Robert Reich (Back Toward Double Dip) Again, Robert Reich has proposed common sense, completely doable and compassionate solutions to the looming economic and financial catastrophe that faces individual Americans and our nation’s economy. Washington politicians appear to be devoid of common sense, an understanding of the national economics, financial literacy at the macro level and, […]
MoreThe constant Republican refrain “We are doing what “the American people want?” So why aren’t we demanding more? We as a people are are getting precious little from our elected representatives in D.C. and in state houses all over America. What we are getting is nothing, in fact, but a war against the poor, middle […]
MoreYesterday’s earthquake and Japan and the subsequent nuclear plant destabilization in the country, makes me wonder what would happen here. We know that there are thousands of underground, underwater and other means of finding, drilling and transporting oil and natural gas across the United States. What would happen if we experienced and earthquake of the […]
MoreWhen we allow nameless, faceless corporations and individuals to influence our election and define the issues for us, we will continue to get a government that does not meet our needs. All of those negative ads are disturbingly alike. They are not civic discourse illuminating the issues. The are in fact pure unmitigated marketing designed to lead us as if we are sheep to embrace their slogans. Their purpose is to inbed them in our psyches until we think that what they are telling is us true. That it is real. Those messages become that commercial jingle we just can’t get out of our heads even though it is irritating as hell!
MoreAs mid-term elections approach it seems as though some of us who helped create the historic victory in 2008 are losing faith. Now is not the time to be fair weather fans. It took nearly two decades of war and greed to create the current morass of pain and suffering in the U.S. and the […]
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