Search Results for: income inequality

Bernie Sanders Takes on the media forcefully (VIDEO)

August 19, 2015 By Egberto Willies

Bernie Sanders confronted reporters head on with responses that redirected their questions to the issues that matter forcefully, artfully, and passionately.

Bernie Sanders slams GOP debate Sunday morning – Speaks to 28000 that evening (VIDEO)

August 10, 2015 By Egberto Willies

Bernie Sanders is campaigning as if it is 2016. He was on point as he critiqued the GOP debate & his Portland speech to 28000 shows he is listening to all.

It is time for white culture to self-examine

June 21, 2015 By Egberto Willies

The hate some in the ‘white culture’ have for the ‘others’ can only be resolve from within, not by hiding from reality but changing the sad reality.

Guess who is offering Middle Class tax hikes

January 25, 2015 By Egberto Willies

Republicans told Americans they lower taxes. They control many cash strapped states and now propose balancing budgets on the backs of the middle class.

Full transcript of President Obama’s 2015 State of the Union Address

January 20, 2015 By Egberto Willies

Full transcript of President Obama’s State of the Union address. He presented middle-class centric policies that go in contrast to trickle-down economics.

Ted Talks – Nick Hanauer: Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming

September 1, 2014 By Egberto Willies

Here is another must see by Nick Hanauer, a wise capitalist/plutocrat that understands his survival and the survival of his ilk depend on a viable middle class. He continues to implore both the wealthy and the government to give up on fallacies of trickle-down economics. His first TED Talk debunked the theory that wealthy capitalists […]

Democracy at risk as Plutocracy hones in on taking over the Internet

April 27, 2014 By Egberto Willies

Net Neutrality At Risk. This week Net Neutrality was once again placed on notice. The door is being opened to a privileged network. Those with money may be afforded the ability to smooth speedy access while those without, marginality. The Internet is an integral part of American life. It is how we communicate. It is […]

Watch: Bill Maher Schools The Spoiled & Entitled Rich With Overdue Smackdown

March 1, 2014 By Egberto Willies

Bill Maher gave a Real Time overdue schooling to the entitled rich Friday night. Below is the transcript of the most substantive snippets of his closing New Rules. Transcript of the entitled rich schooling What is with this new trend of people who have all the power acting like they are the oppressed ones? … […]

This Governor Tells Unionized Companies We Don’t Want Your Jobs (VIDEO)

February 21, 2014 By Egberto Willies

In Nikki Haley’s state ideology trump jobs. After Volkswagen workers decided to turn down unionization at their plant, pundits called it a defeat for the UAW. The reality is that this was a loss for the workers. There is ample data that shows that America’s decline in wages track the decline of worker unions, It […]

Should it be Capitalism for the few or free enterprise for all?

February 21, 2014 By Egberto Willies

David Brooks New York Times piece “Capitalism for the Masses” is a blood boiler. Macroeconomic math is very simple. There is one mathematical fact. If the wealth of the rich is growing at a consistently higher rate than the rate of the economy’s aggregate wealth creation and that rate differential is not completely attributable to […]