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• Avoiding The Right-wing Authoritarian Future – The Moral Values Way

  (Unless otherwise noted, this posting includes extensive excerpts from Appendix VII, The New Patriotism, of the The 15% Solution, by Jonathan Westminster. Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Teapublicans Are Punishing America for Electing a Black Man President

  As we all know, our right-wing minority controlled Congress and many right-wing state leaders have opposed every effort of President Obama. Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Corporate Governance Is Stifling Dodd-Frank – No Surprise

  Professor Richard D. Wolff, author and self trained Marxist economist, and journalist Hedrick Smith, author of Who Stole the American Dream, have both detailed... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Labor Is Dealt Two New Blows – Both Limit NLRB

  The following is from Thom Hartmann: You need to know this. For decades, unions have been fighting to preserve workers’ rights, but that fight just got a lot... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Move the “Center” Back to the Left – Where America Is

  The following is a slightly longer version of my letter to The White House. Mr. President, I’ll be 65 in a few days. I’ve seen and experienced parts of America’... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Minimum Wage, Wage Theft and The Free Market at Work – Is It Fixable?

  

  The post 80′s ideas of keeping the minimum wage suppressed and not rewarding workers, profit creators, for their productivity increases of the last three... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Minimum Wage, Wage Theft and The Free Market at Work – Is It Fixable?

  

  Keeping the minimum wage suppressed and not rewarding workers, profit creators, for their productivity increases of the last four decades must stop. Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Moral Values of the Left and Right – History Shows Which Works for All Americans

  

  Throughout this blog, postings have provided details about the strict father and nurturant parent worldviews. Charts in some of those postings show how the... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Corporate Governance Will Transfer More Wealth If Social Security Is Privatized

  

  (This blog posting comes from portions of Who Stole the American Dream by Hedrick Smith.) The history of the transition from company funded pensions to... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Corporate Governance Erodes Democracy As Education is Privatized

  Corporate governance destroys democracy by replacing accountability to citizens with accountability to a few major stockholders and boards of directors who... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Citizenship Dues and Non-profit Investing – Creating and Maintaining the Middle...

  

  Our recent history shows us how we created and maintained a prosperous middle class and still had a Forbes 400 to write about. The Greatest Generation can add... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Danger of American Fascism – Then and Now

  Henryn A. Wallace was the 33rd Vice President of the United States (1941–1945), the Secretary of Agriculture (1933–1940), and the Secretary of Commerce... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Our Two Major Political Parties – The Illusion and Realities of Their Essences

  Over the years, some have said that there is little difference between our two major political parties. This is certainly a favorite characterization made by... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Price of Our Freedoms – Our Children’s LIves?, Our Representative Government?

  Based on the recent writings of Professor George Lakoff and the Newtown statements from our President, I posted the following to FB to contrast the... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The War on Youth: Pitfalls of Neoliberalism

  

  In an interview of Henry Giroux about the War on youth in America, Canada and Great Britain, there is a great summary of neoliberalism, its destructive power,... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Neoliberalism Threatens Our Democracy By Replacing Our Social State with a...

  In an interview of Henry Giroux about the War on youth in America, Canada and Great Britain, there is a great summary of neoliberalism, its destructive power,... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Dirk Van Dongen – Strengthening The Military-Corporate Complex and Enriching...

  

  In an address to the nation on January 17, 1961, in the middle of nurturing the greatest middle class this world has ever seen, President Dwight D. Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Dakota Indians Lost to the ONE% in the 1860s – Can Today’s 99% Check and...

  A recent episode of This American Life was about the Dakota War of 1862. This war resulted in the final expulsion of the Dakota Indians from their ancestral hom... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Corporate Governance of Social Security & Medicare – An Abominable Idea for...

  I’ve sent the following to President Obama via the White House contact web site: You might consider doing something similar to counter all the fiscal cliff... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Disaster Relief Is Immoral and Requires Privatization – Who Believes This and...

  

  Here is a portion of the transcript from the June 13, 2011, Republican presidential primary debate where Romney is asked about transferring disaster relief to... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY