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(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 6, 2010 The Angry and Forgotten of Conservative America
If you absolutely believe human life is not a right, and insist that the profit inflated cost of private health care is only a commodity that must be paid for in a free marketplace - a commodity whose cost pits it against the substantial costs of the other basics of survival - then you must by extension accept this permanent and exponentially growing underclass of millions and millions.
(18 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 31, 2010 Leave Timothy F. Geithner Alone
Every member of the House Oversight Committee splayed out before him as he submitted to testimony profited handsomely from the career of Timothy Geithner. Every home, every political office, every lover was made possible for these "elected" officials of Congress by the world people like Geithner constructed. A world they themselves supported.
(8 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 6, 2010 The Coming Fury of an Angry America
The simple fact of the matter is Americans no longer have the disposable income to consume their way out of trouble, and that trouble lies in why it is the American middle class is broke, struggling, and increasingly angry.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 17, 2009 The Minimum Wage is People
The object is not to force a graph line of employed around a chart, the object is to provide dignity, respect, and security for all the humans of our community. When we fail at this, as we often do, we create growing pools of people who know exactly what their situation is, even if we do not. This just makes us smug, and them angry, and nothing more.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 10, 2009 Why is Lloyd Blankfein
Our wretched poverty and excess are firmly buttressed by law and custom, law and custom created and defended over centuries by the established aristocracies of expropriated wealth. We used to call these governments. Now we call them corporations.
SHARE Friday, November 13, 2009 Give Iran "The Bomb"
Iran is building "the bomb". Iran will be the fifth power in the region to possess the bomb, and is certainly the first of what will soon be a rapid escalation of regional states with the wealth and wherewithal to acquire the bomb. In addition, this proliferation of bomb owning states is a function of economics, and as such, is inevitable, its containment improbable by any rational measure.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, October 30, 2009 Romancing the Afghan Dragon
"More than anywhere else in the world, Afghanistan represents the collision of democracy, liberalism, free markets...and ideological hypocrisy. Heroin is destroying millions of satisfied customers, the supply chain enriching a rope line of banks, small businessmen, entrepreneurs, and farmers. The resource point is a single place on earth where the stability of a deadly crop alone dictates the fortunes of empires"