Last night in his State of the Union address, President Obama once again urged Congress to pass the Buffett rule, noting that 25 percent of American millionaires pay less in taxes that millions of families in the middle-class. Republicans were quick to dismiss his request as “the politics of envy and division.” However, multi-billionaire […]
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U.S. Unemployment Rate Falls To Lowest Level In Nearly Three Years–GOP Panics
Many wondered if the reason Republican politicians have been lock, stock, and barrel against any progressive policies that would actually help the economy and with that increase jobs and the financial well being of the middle class was because they could not allow a successful President Obama agenda for fear that the trickle down policies […]
Why Occupy Wall Street Must Go Political–Protect IP (HR 3261 & S 968) To Derail Internet
Before I go into my prose, please click here to sign the petition against the Protect IP bill and call your 2 senators against this bill now. Our free enterprise economy depends on it. If these bills pass, corporations will own the last bastion of information dispersal available to the middle class. Now my prose. […]
The People’s Budget–A Serious Fair Budget That Gets Little Coverage – Corporate Media Is A Danger to The Middle Class
It is sad that there is a budget that out there that is much better than the President’s budget and Republican Paul Ryan’s budget. The budget is humane and it does not use smoke and mirrors or ideology to pay balance the budget. The budget is not only a policy panacea but will change the […]
Podcast Of My Show Liberal Politics Done Right 2011-02-26
This is the podcast for my February 26th, 2011 show on The Force 925. Evan Carroll and I discussed our enlightening visit to the Kingwood Tea Party Monthly Meeting. Deborah Mowrey, a Kingwood political activist called in from her Planned Parenthood meeting in Houston. Clff Olney, a CNN iReporter called in to discuss the Koch […]
Inasmuch As Wealthy’s Charitable Contributions Help, Higher Taxes On Wealthy A Must To Ensure Fiscal Responsibility #p2 #tcot #teaparty
Three professors (Robert Hockett of Cornell Law School, Daniel Markovits of Yale Law School, and Jacob Hacker a Yale political scientist) created the website GiveItBackForJobs.org. The premise is that the responsible wealthy would donate their windfall from the Bush tax cuts and the Obama extensions to the charities of their choice and thus stimulating the […]
We Must Call It CLASS WARFARE – The Top 2% Pilfering The Middleclass For The Last 30 years
I wrote this as a preface to the article below almost three years ago. It is amazing how entrenched we are in our modus operandi that so little gets changed. In finding relevant articles for a new piece it popped up on Google and made it quite evident the working middle class has a lot […]
We are officially a BANANA REPUBLIC. Our Brand Of Capitalism Is Failing Us #p2 #tcot #teaparty
We have crossed the boundary. For most Americans, America is a banana republic That the mainstream Broadcast News media does not tell this story to Americans to allow them to decide for themselves the type of republic they want is unconscionable. The wealthy did not get there on their own devise. It is a defect […]
Figures Detail Depth Of Unemployment Misery, Lower Earnings For All But Super Wealthy #p2 #tcot #teaparty
I read this article with great trepidation. Along with likely thousands of other liberals, I’ve been blogging, getting myself on radio stations, getting on CNN, writing in my local paper, commenting at every major paper online & offline, and wrote a book about the cancer that has metastasize in this country; the immoral transfer of […]
Opposition To Individual Mandate Is Support For Indirect Welfare #p2 #hcr #tcot
By Egberto Willies March 23rd, 2010 Opposition to the mandate requiring everyone who can afford health insurance to purchase it is fiscally irresponsible given that every American gets care if they get into an accident, gets a heart attack, or some other immediate illness. To expect those of us who have purchased insurance to support […]
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