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POPSWhat Should Uncle Sam Do? I like the sound of the phrase "socialized capitalism"..... Every time someone mentions that there should be more regulation of the greedy corporations, some ditto-head conservative yells "Socialism!". I gues they would rather have "Socialized Capitalism" in which the CEO's of these large corporations get to go home each year with millions of dallars in income, while the rest of us bail out their failed businesses.....nothing but greed and corruption!
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POPSIt’s About the White House A good title to an article that explains what we will be getting if "long in the tooth" manages to win the Presidency. Imagine that! ..... another four years of the same lousy trip back in time!.....the same give it to the rich and the corporations.....welcome back to "The Guilded Age".
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POPSThe NAFTA Superhighway When I first heard about this, I found it hard to believe....... looks like its true. Multinationals are our new country.... Kiss America goodby. Money talks....us patriots walk, or ride that super-duper-highway.
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POPSFear and Loathing in Middle America
More: Lucky for us, Bageant didn't hop on the next plane back west, and didn't chalk it all up to a terrible, misconstrued nostalgia. Instead, he stuck to his guns -- literally -- and tried to understand why people in his part of the country, people he genuinely loves despite his utter detestation of their politics, are so dyed-in-the-wool conservative that it'd take the Apocalypse to prize them away from supporting George W. Bush. "In the days before the spine of the labor movement was crushed, back when you could be a gun owner and a liberal without any conflict, members of the political left supported these workers, stood on the lines taking beatings at the plant gates alongside them," he argues. "Now there is practically no labor movement, and large numbers on the left are comfortably ensconced in the true middle class... From that vantage point, liberals currently view working whites as angry, warmongering bigots, happy pawns of the American empire -- which begs the questions
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POPSCredit Card Buyer Beware Amazing how some people don't understand that one very good, and much needed job of the government is to establish laws that protect us from this sort of greedy corporate practice. Too many people just keep repeating that same old Reagan quote.....the best government is a small government, or something like that..... as if all these corporate entities are going to do what is best for us. They think that when it comes to money, the banks are going to do something that will lessen their profits. How stupid!
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POPSWait, There Actually Is a Bridge in Brooklyn You Can Sell Me? The common good is flying out the window in this new world of privatization. We will all feel the effects of corporate creed in the course of our daily life. (Government = Bad Corporations = Good} Private Enterprise is the answer to everything. God Bless America! Also, God Help America!
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POPS35 miles per gallon by 2020 Thanks partly to skilled management by Harry Reid, the majority leader, the measure is also relevant to the challenges at hand and largely uncluttered by special-interest amendments. GO Harry!
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POPSStrong Democracy I saw Benjamin Barber on CSPAN'S Book TV tonight, and found myself agreeing with his comments. This is his website. There are many other topics discussed.
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POPSWhite-Collared Drug Pushers, and Hillbilly Heroin This is what happens when you let corporations police themselves. Anytime money is involved, you can bet that there needs to be some strict regulation. I don't understand why all of a sudden the Senate passes some bill to oversee drug advertising and labels. I thought that was the job of the FDA to begin with. Why did they not already have the power to do this? Could it have been the current administrations policy that less government is good government.....and that foxes are very capable of guarding hen-houses. Between late 1995, and 2001, Purdue sold over 2.8 billion dollars worth of this drug....sometimes called "Hillbilly Heroin"
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POPSRove’s efforts to maintain one-party rule "billions of dollars in contracts put out by the agency every year to return Republicans to the majority in Congress in 2008. " This trade of government contracts to keep Republicans in power is the essence of Rovian plans for one-party rule. It is also called Facism.....the merging of corporations and government!
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POPSYour MasterCard or Your Life! I think I read in that new bankruptcy law that the banks are allowed to "knee-cap" you if you don't make the payments. Also, they are now allowed to charge as much interest as they want.......wait a minute!......they have been allowed to do that all along now!.......even without the new law. Oh well!.....just as long as we get rid of all these deadbeats! Maybe they will die or something.......
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POPSIn Debt We Trust....Hook em while they're young! Come on all you conservatives.....tell us how we all need to be "RESPONSIBLE"!!.... any then give all the power to the legal crooks in the banking and credit card industry.....cheer on the passage of a "travisty of a bankruptcy bill that shafts consumers and enriches the financial industry"!
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POPSAre you trapped in the soulless exurbs? "The creation of an American oligarchy.....a steady Weimarization of the American working class. The top one percent of American households have more wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined." This is an interesting tribute to our "Growing Economy" that King George will be talking about in tomorrows State of the Union Address.
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POPSNo Bid Contracts...what a great idea! War profitering at its finest. Break out all the yellow ribbons! "Corporate wealth and power, combined with political wealth and power"........where have I heard about that before? Oh yea, Fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany. The coorperation of corporations and political leaders is one way to move forward a Fascist agenda. Let the hearings and oversight begin! It's about time!
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