The United States is in Decline. But Guess Why That is So!

The decline of the United States began thirty years ago with President Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts for the rich. That extra money from the cuts allowed the rich to purchase legislation that redistributed income from the middle class to themselves, such as free trade agreements which allowed corporations to ship the jobs of working people [...]

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Twenty Myths (Lies) That Are Running Amok

1 President Obama wants to take away our guns. (Everybody knows this is a lie. However, that bad boy Obama does want to take away our bullets.) 2 The more we spend on the military, the safer we are. (Unless we oppose the military. Then we become an accidental target of a drone strike.) 3 [...]

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What Do Americans Think Of Obama’s Performance As A President?

Obama inherited a disaster when he became president. He squandered a lot and caved in to Wall Street and Republicans like he was their rag doll. On the other hand, he has accomplished a lot since he became president. Some people think he’s the most effective president since FDR. Those people are forgetting some pretty [...]

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Are We Near the End of the Era of Crony Capitalism? The Government Policies That Redistribute Income from the 99 percent to the 1 percent

The war began with a savage legislative assault by President Ronald Reagan. Working people voted for him as he slaughtered their livelihoods, starved their schools, bankrupted their nation, laid the foundation for mass corruption and destroyed the retirement accounts of the elderly. Now the Occupy Movement has come to challenge Reagan’s legacy. How did we [...]

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How the Republican Party became the Party of the Rich

The Republican Party wasn’t always the party of the rich. President Ronald Reagan once insisted that a bus driver shouldn’t pay the same tax rate as a millionaire. Those days are gone. Of course, the truth is that 66 to 80 percent of the Democratic Party is a party of and for the rich. But [...]

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The New Progressive Movement

OCCUPY WALL STREET and its allied movements around the country are more than a walk in the park. They are most likely the start of a new era in America. Historians have noted that American politics moves in long swings. We are at the end of the 30-year Reagan era, a period that has culminated [...]

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In 2009 the typical household headed by someone 65 and older had 47 times as much net wealth as the typical household headed by someone 35 years and younger–$170,494 versus $3,662 (all figures expressed in 2010 dollars).

Households headed by older adults have made dramatic gains relative to those headed by younger adults in their economic well-being over the past quarter of a century, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of a wide array of government data. In 2009, households headed by adults ages 65 and older possessed 42% more [...]

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Seven Economic Lies the Republicans Keep Telling Us

By Robert Reich The President’s Jobs Bill doesn’t have a chance in Congress — and the Occupiers on Wall Street and elsewhere can’t become a national movement for a more equitable society – unless more Americans know the truth about the economy. 1. Tax cuts for the rich trickle down to everyone else. Baloney. Ronald [...]

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Day Four of Cycle Oregon and the Current Great Depression–Thank You George Bush, The Republicons, Senator Ron “Hedge Fund” Wyden and Congressman Earl Blumenauer, the Oregonian Newspaper

Like Derek and I this morning, the majority of the United States have been foolishly sleeping in and walking around brain dead. I woke up, but stayed half asleep this morning. I listened to the sounds of people getting up in the tents around us. The light wind briefly blew a hot breath of port-a-pottie [...]

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High US Debt is Caused by the Recession and Low Tax Rates for the Rich

FACT CHECK: Recession Is Culprit in High US Debt By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: August 20, 2011 at 3:33 AM ET * Sign In to E-Mail * Print WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s the loud and clear consensus of Republicans in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail: Runaway government spending is the problem, not taxes. [...]

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