The Obama administration is in danger of becoming distracted by the clamor for retribution regarding atrocities that may or may not have been committed in Guantánamo Bay. Unelected groups like Amnesty International and the ACLU have decided to lead the charge and create an agenda for the American people. (more…)
May 2009
According to Tom Philpott, food editor on Grist.org, the Mexican press has reports linking industrial hog producer Smithfield factory farms to the outbreak in swine flu. The U.S. mainstream media is so far not reporting any such link.
April 2009
The real problem I have with Ron Paul and the Republican party’s talk about letting the big companies file bankruptcy (besides the absolute lack of understanding of the far-reaching impacts of that choice) is that they seem to have no care or connection to the number of other companies that would be affected.
I have written off thousands of dollars due to bankruptcies. Meanwhile, the dirtbags who didn’t pay their bill in the first place aren’t even affected by the bankruptcy. They shut one business down and start another. I have had people purchase items from us, knowing they were in bankruptcy. Long-standing clients too!
Free Market is an ideology and nothing else, based on the Austrian ideology of economics, which, by the way, has no basis in research. It is simply a think tank of ideas. If Free Market really worked then there would be no corporate crimes like pollution, employee abuse, ad theft. The last time this country actually had a Free Market was at the turn of the century, which is now lovingly known as the Robber Baron days. Remember those times from your history books? The stories of employees working 16-hour days paid only in company money. People died for their jobs back then and the company walked away fat.
I’m a capitalist. But I strive to be a responsible business person to my staff and my community. This country doesn’t need less regulation, that is what got us here these last eight years anyway. In spite of the Republicans’ latest attempt to blame this mess on Obama, it was eight years of corruption, greed and corporate rule that did it. Their rule. But instead, they blame the guy who has been on the job all of eight weeks.
The problem with Ron Paul is that he lives in a fantasy world, the problem with the rest of the Republicans is they have long since lost the way. They don’t just have an ideology problem, they have a power problem. So my response to Ron and Rush and the rest of the gang at the GOP is, Thanks, but no thanks. We’ve tried that and look where it got us.
March 2009
To: Bobby Jindal
I read your comments (“Jindal called for traditional Republican policies of tax cuts, less government involvement in the economy, and reliance on free markets and individual efforts. ‘The strength of America is not found in our government,’ he said. ‘It is found in the compassionate hearts and enterprising spirit of our citizens.’”) about how we are to lead our country out of the financial mess that George Bush, Dick Cheney and the Republican party led us into. Sadly these are the very ideas that got us into trouble in the first place. Look good on paper, sounds good in soundbites, but in reality detrimental to the health of a nation and it’s economy. The last time we had “free market” it led to the Great Depression. Here we are in the worst recession I can remember in the last fifty years in part caused by deregulation and corruption of government. This was led by the Republican party—the group that is supposed to represent smaller government and less spending. Instead we have the worst deficit in history, and a crumbling nation and world. Thanks, but no thanks to your ideas—they are old and do not work. They only sound like they do.
February 2009
All my life, I had an idealist view about what government and ethics looked like. I grew up with the teachings of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and how our nation was founded under great and noble ideas. (more…)
November 2008
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