Just finished Joe Stiglitz's "The Price of Inequality" , and it may be my last economic read after having read 100's of them over the years.. While Joe's book speaks the truth the following dawned on me..
All the theories, all the graphs, all the learned men who talk truth to the subject miss the one big glaring truth "NOTHING WILL BE DONE IF IT REQUIRES A POLITICAL MOVE TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM"
As long as corporations control the purse strings and politicians depend on their money to win re-election nothing will change , nothing.. Too think a politician will vote against his wallet is wrong thinking.. They won't.
The Tea Party showed what big money can do with a really shitty idea.. and have grid locked congress with their nonsense.. and they dare not stray from the Tea Bag trail or they will get beat in their next primary.. by the big money of course..
Even with democrats in control they feel they have to cave into the nut jobs on every issue.. The big test is coming up.. The debt limit and the sequester of funds , the right is threatening a shut down, the left is saying go ahead, will they flinch, the bet is they will. I believe they will put SS and Medicare/Medicaid on the table and we will loose again..
Watch the negotiations that are about to take place , see if you see any of the solutions I have laid out on this blog many times in the past.. Just one simple adjustment to allow Medicare D to negotiate for drug prices will cut more budget than any plan presently laid out by either side.. Politically impossible as Medicare for all is. And anybody who thinks you can cut a 100 billion or two from the military budget , hasn't looked at their spending in the last 30 years..
So you now see the cause of my depression. Shit won't happen because politicians are constipated by their steady diet of big money.. I wish I could come up with a new EXlax that would solve the problem.. I have one but nobody like it.. just look at past blogs to see it..
So cheer me up if you can,, I am desperate to renew my faith in the American people, people who now seem incapable of action.. of any kind..
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Monday, January 14, 2013
SPILLING OF BLOOD
Unfortunately a lot of the nutcases in this country own guns and at their first annoyance they threaten to start spilling blood.. This latest nut job surfaced the other day when he for the first time heard his kindergärtner siting the pledge of allegiance followed by a school pledge that encourages excellence.
He thought he heard them drop the word liberty from the pledge and he also objected to them staying facing the flag while saying the school pledge..
And over these injustices (supposed) he threatens to spill blood. Now if you really want to stop the bloodshed this jive ass acting out his threat throw him into psychiatric evaluation for 90 days. No it's not a violation of his freedom so speech it is simply a check on his sanity to say stupid things in public.. It would serve as a real check on nutcases and provided a cooling off period to instill a little common sense to these gun happy shits.
Then bat crap crazies like Alex Jones threaten another revolution if any new gun regulations are passed, spittle flying, screaming threats, looks institution worthy to me.
It would seem like common sense to at least sit down and talk about measures we might take to stop these horrible mass killings.. Ask a teacher if they think teachers should be armed, they will uniformly say no. Would cops in every school stop, doesn't seem so there have been cops at at schools where mass shooting have occurred . Some moan what if every person in that theater had been armed would that have stopped that nut, perhaps, along with many many more dead from the theater goers shooting one another,, There must be some common ground somewhere out there , Shouldn't there?
He thought he heard them drop the word liberty from the pledge and he also objected to them staying facing the flag while saying the school pledge..
And over these injustices (supposed) he threatens to spill blood. Now if you really want to stop the bloodshed this jive ass acting out his threat throw him into psychiatric evaluation for 90 days. No it's not a violation of his freedom so speech it is simply a check on his sanity to say stupid things in public.. It would serve as a real check on nutcases and provided a cooling off period to instill a little common sense to these gun happy shits.
Then bat crap crazies like Alex Jones threaten another revolution if any new gun regulations are passed, spittle flying, screaming threats, looks institution worthy to me.
It would seem like common sense to at least sit down and talk about measures we might take to stop these horrible mass killings.. Ask a teacher if they think teachers should be armed, they will uniformly say no. Would cops in every school stop, doesn't seem so there have been cops at at schools where mass shooting have occurred . Some moan what if every person in that theater had been armed would that have stopped that nut, perhaps, along with many many more dead from the theater goers shooting one another,, There must be some common ground somewhere out there , Shouldn't there?
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
DOWN AND DIRTY- WE ARE RUN BY CRIMINALS
Here's a great story by Greg Palast on the assassination attempts on Hugo Chavez's life and the underlying reasons they (and who the they are)wanted him gone.
Hugo it sounds like may not be with us much longer. But as Palast points out he has appointed his successor and I guess there is nothing for us to do , but wait and see... They (the big boys) want his country back and hope the rest of the revolution in other countries that took signals from what he did will be able to stand too.
It makes ashamed to be an American these days what with torture and assassination as a game plan is not the country I served for so many years... I want my country back!
Hugo it sounds like may not be with us much longer. But as Palast points out he has appointed his successor and I guess there is nothing for us to do , but wait and see... They (the big boys) want his country back and hope the rest of the revolution in other countries that took signals from what he did will be able to stand too.
It makes ashamed to be an American these days what with torture and assassination as a game plan is not the country I served for so many years... I want my country back!
THE FIX FOR MEDICARE, MEDICAID
Wanna fix the problem takes a simple bill..
THE DIFFERENCE IS GOVERNMENT RUN INSURANCE
Not only fixes the health care problem for all but cures the outlying deficits entirely....So fix it god damn it.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE
The fairy tale that is our foreign policy.. That's is their goal.. What is their record..not impressive at all.. Not since WW2 have we actually won a war. In Iraq and Afghanistan we have left or will leave countries worse off than when we found them and certainly less friendly to us now..
Seeing our actions on the world stage a lot of the rest of the world despises us , if not for our aggression on foreign soil , the destruction of the world economy by our economic master minds.
Dominance , a fucking joke. We can't even whip a ragtag army in Iraq (they simply disappeared) sure we raised the flag over Sudam's palace but we certainly didn't win the hearts and minds of the people. Afghanistan, 12 years and counting , out in 2014 , leaving what?
It's about time the US begins to leave countries to decide their own fate.. We should not be trying to destabilize countries like Venezuela simply because we want control of their valuables.
We have always played these games and have destroyed country after country with our dumbshit foreign policy. It's time to right the wrongs in our own country. We could start by not applying the same kind of economic solutions we have at times forced on the rest of the world... to their determent and now ours.
Seeing our actions on the world stage a lot of the rest of the world despises us , if not for our aggression on foreign soil , the destruction of the world economy by our economic master minds.
Dominance , a fucking joke. We can't even whip a ragtag army in Iraq (they simply disappeared) sure we raised the flag over Sudam's palace but we certainly didn't win the hearts and minds of the people. Afghanistan, 12 years and counting , out in 2014 , leaving what?
It's about time the US begins to leave countries to decide their own fate.. We should not be trying to destabilize countries like Venezuela simply because we want control of their valuables.
We have always played these games and have destroyed country after country with our dumbshit foreign policy. It's time to right the wrongs in our own country. We could start by not applying the same kind of economic solutions we have at times forced on the rest of the world... to their determent and now ours.
THE WORLD LIVE-PRESENT DAY EXAMPLES SHOWING NEO LIBERAL ECONOMICS IS BULLSHIT
The two main schools of economic theory argue back and forth which one is right.. The neo-liberal side won't let you use graphs of older experiments showing their theories because they have been total disasters ..
So how about a live and upfront view of today . Two examples of the different results pursuing the opposite strategies and the results. Notice please 10 year old's working in factories to support their out of work parents..This should show you just how low the manufactures of the world will stoop to make profits.. They even brag how to overcome the low wages they are paying ,they are making 2 and 3 cent versions of things like toothpaste, and shampoo.
The conservatives try to use recent experiments of their unregulated, trickle down economic bullshit as a great success story by once again using a snapshot of time to prove their point..Problem is if you run the program just a little further you get the EU the UK and others who followed their ideas are all wallowing in the depths of depression.. Huge unemployment, cuts is social programs and depths of despair not seen since the depression or the great wars..
As the first link clearly shows , Latin American development has been showing good growth led by folks like Cesar Chavez and other progressives that progressive economics does still work today.
So now we sit here with living evidence that the conservatives are as wrong today as they have been wrong in the past.. and you have clearly seen in the articles presented they are willing to go back to using child labor is factories ..
Clearly the only answer to stop them is a massive program by all workers and bill payers to stop working and paying bills , not even buying their 3 cent shampoos . Stop the wheel , the screams will be quick in coming and it will be from the fat cats who are no longer making a buck.. Sure everything will crash and then they will realize the depth of their mistake.. When all their toys quit working and their is no one willing to make them work again..Then we will have our day..
Sounds drastic , I know, but sometimes it is necessary to experience some pain now for a better life in the future..On our current path only misery lies ahead.
So how about a live and upfront view of today . Two examples of the different results pursuing the opposite strategies and the results. Notice please 10 year old's working in factories to support their out of work parents..This should show you just how low the manufactures of the world will stoop to make profits.. They even brag how to overcome the low wages they are paying ,they are making 2 and 3 cent versions of things like toothpaste, and shampoo.
The conservatives try to use recent experiments of their unregulated, trickle down economic bullshit as a great success story by once again using a snapshot of time to prove their point..Problem is if you run the program just a little further you get the EU the UK and others who followed their ideas are all wallowing in the depths of depression.. Huge unemployment, cuts is social programs and depths of despair not seen since the depression or the great wars..
As the first link clearly shows , Latin American development has been showing good growth led by folks like Cesar Chavez and other progressives that progressive economics does still work today.
So now we sit here with living evidence that the conservatives are as wrong today as they have been wrong in the past.. and you have clearly seen in the articles presented they are willing to go back to using child labor is factories ..
Clearly the only answer to stop them is a massive program by all workers and bill payers to stop working and paying bills , not even buying their 3 cent shampoos . Stop the wheel , the screams will be quick in coming and it will be from the fat cats who are no longer making a buck.. Sure everything will crash and then they will realize the depth of their mistake.. When all their toys quit working and their is no one willing to make them work again..Then we will have our day..
Sounds drastic , I know, but sometimes it is necessary to experience some pain now for a better life in the future..On our current path only misery lies ahead.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
THE ROTTEN BASTARDS ARE THREATENING US AGAIN
The lousy Republicans are threatening to take the country down again unless we cut Social Security and Medicare in two months. more threats on the debt ceiling but of course they are only targeting the two programs they have been after since their inception..
The Tiger Cage has more than once listed the real cuts that can be made to fix the problem forever so just pay attention and see if anybody mentions even just one of the programs I have listed here.
I can only see one way to stop these cruel bastards , we have to put up a counter offer that kills all their favorite pork programs and then depend on the Senate (the one or two brave souls we have in the Senate) and pull their power to stop these things from hitting the floor..
Perhaps we will have to let them shut down the government and force the country into depression.. It will hurt but it would kill their hold on the country for 50 years or so like it did the last time they pulled this shit..
It is unbelievable they are going to do this again.. It should instill in everyone's mind what evil bastards these pukes are... The deficit they are bitching about was caused by them and now we must pay for it.. Well fuck em.. we can always pull an Iceland and tell them all to stick their debt.. It worked for them and it will work for us , we just have to have the courage to make it happen.,.
The Tiger Cage has more than once listed the real cuts that can be made to fix the problem forever so just pay attention and see if anybody mentions even just one of the programs I have listed here.
I can only see one way to stop these cruel bastards , we have to put up a counter offer that kills all their favorite pork programs and then depend on the Senate (the one or two brave souls we have in the Senate) and pull their power to stop these things from hitting the floor..
Perhaps we will have to let them shut down the government and force the country into depression.. It will hurt but it would kill their hold on the country for 50 years or so like it did the last time they pulled this shit..
It is unbelievable they are going to do this again.. It should instill in everyone's mind what evil bastards these pukes are... The deficit they are bitching about was caused by them and now we must pay for it.. Well fuck em.. we can always pull an Iceland and tell them all to stick their debt.. It worked for them and it will work for us , we just have to have the courage to make it happen.,.
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