Archive for the ‘Economics’ Category
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Our Free Market Conservatives have suddenly unlearned all of their favorite slogans from the last few decades. “Competition.” “Let the marketplace sort everything out.” “A private company will ALWAYS be more efficient than a bunch of bureaucrats who can’t get fired.”
OK then, let’s put these theories to the test. ...
Posted in Economics, Health, greed | 107 Comments »
Monday, June 1st, 2009
Back in November, we were told that GM (and Chrysler and Ford) was just TOO BIG to let fail, and as such it was IMPERATIVE that $35 Billion of tax payer money be given to the auto industry or MILLIONS would be instantly out of work, PLUNGING the economy into ...
Posted in BIO, Economics, capitalism | 6 Comments »
Saturday, May 9th, 2009
This article profiles a family near Heidelberg, Germany, and how they’re coping with both spouses being out of work. Archie Bunker types will blubber about “the welfare state!” and “worthless parasites!” But this family — a husband and wife and their four children — is surviving a lot ...
Posted in Economics, World News | 47 Comments »
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Tax Dodgers that is.
Obama is trying to fulfill a campaign promise to crack down on those sleazebuckets who hide their money in other countries. This crackdown would be accomplished with new tax laws, new reporting requirements and hundreds of new IRS agents
Obama said the way for America to stay ...
Posted in Economics, Taxes | 8 Comments »
Friday, April 17th, 2009
So here we are, 6 months after the brink of "financial armageddon," upwards of $7.5 Trillion-yes trillion with a "T"- promised, printed, and perq-ed away, and what have we gained?
After being told that our major financial institutions and banks were so nearly insolvent that only massive amounts of taxpayer funded ...
Posted in BIO, Economics, Life | 10 Comments »
Sunday, April 12th, 2009
There are about fifty million Americans who don’t have health insurance. So many people, so little power.
This humongous group could learn something from the National Rifle Association. Three million people snap their fingers, and every legislator in the country collapses into a hysterical blubbering quivering mass.
The uninsured probably ...
Posted in Economics, Health | 14 Comments »
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
A few decades ago, everyone was worried about the “Malling of America.” Downtowns were turning into ghost towns because everybody was shopping at the mall. And the country became so homogenized and standardized, every place started looking the same. A suburb of Chicago or Seattle, a small ...
Posted in America, Economics | 13 Comments »
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
No smirking now; they really do have one. This brilliant new strategy combines two of the biggest Republican trademarks:
1. Attacking a problem by squelching the symptoms instead of correcting the underlying cause; and
2. Their utter fascination with conducting random drug tests on everybody, everywhere, all the time. There’s ...
Posted in Economics, conservative | 5 Comments »
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Talk about mixed signals. “Pay up, F#$%!#$!%#in’ Deadbeat! If you can’t afford it, don’t buy it!”
“Shop! Consume! Buy now, pay later! Get out there and use that credit card, F#$%!#$!%#in’ Deadbeat!” If an individual was spewing out contradictory messages like that, he’d probably find ...
Posted in Economics, Religion | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 20th, 2009
Just like hundreds of thousands of others, Ken Karpman finds himself making $7.29 an hour as a pizza delivery boy - not enough to cover the mortgage on his house or keep the lights on. At first blush, Ken’s plight isn't unusual – except his old job was as a ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Economics, Politics | 1 Comment »
