Energy Star tax creditsPolitical And Economic Stupidity
Some of my right-wing friends and neighbors think that Occupy Wall Street is part of a left wing conspiracy. They believe the idiot cable pundits who say that OWS wants to get something for nothing. They think that OWS is driven by hatred of free markets because they chose to focus on Wall Street first. [...]
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Corporations are permitted unlimited spending on elections and politicking. The Citizens United case made sure of that. Spending now determines who controls. 92% of elections in the USA go to the candidate who spends the most. Here is a good read on how and why we must rectify the situation or risk further withering of [...]
Franklin was an advocate for paper money from the beginning, and conducted money supply experiments in the middle colonies that prevented deflation without igniting inflation. True monetary policy in action. Benjamin Franklin would be very upset that the Republican presidential candidate, Governor Rick Perry, says that The Feds printing of new money, increasing the money [...]
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Why do the republicans in congress so vigorously defend tax loopholes but at the same time want to decimate social programs? Those tax breaks only benefit the rich and powerful, so why do they say closing tax loopholes is bad? It’s BS designed to divert attention away from the facts. Perhaps 10% of our deficit [...]
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I worry about our nations leadership in science and engineering. Why are places like Great Britain and China so easily cutting energy in buildings? And Asians being better at math than us. Why did we have such economic problems? An inability to calculate? Our leaders politicians, who dont demonstrate any abilities to separate fact from [...]
Misinformation spreads like wildfire among those who do not read or watch more than one source of news. So-called conservative groups, like the Heritage Foundation, are particularly good at confounding this group. The truth : According to Wikipedia’s Cap and trade definition, it is where …an aggregate cap on all sources is established and these [...]
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“Corporations are neither physical nor metaphysical phenomenon. They are socioeconomic ploys – legally enacted game-playing – agreed upon only between overwhelmingly powerful socioeconomic individuals, and by them, imposed on human society and all its unwitting members.” – Buckminster Fuller (one of my most admired people in history)
Check out Thom Hartmann’s excellent book “Unequal Protection“. Excellent treatise on how corporate politics has dominated the nation going back to before the revolution. In fact, the American revolution was brought on by the American resentment of a British massive company, the “East India Company”, owned by the royal family, which suppressed the free market [...]
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From wikipedia we learn that an oligarchy (from Greek ὀλιγαρχία, oligarkhía[1]) is a form of power structure in which power effectively rests with a small segment of society distinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, military control, or religious hegemony. From the 1950s to the 1980s, the “military-industrial complex” was a necessary evil, shielding us from [...]
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Stephen Covey’s book, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, says that getting to where we want to be requires focus on the “wildly” important. Covey said that it is all too easy to get off-focus. Often, we get pulled off-course by a myriad of “urgent” demands in our everyday lives. Covey notices that people who [...]
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