Back in 1896 & 1929 people didn’t need a detailed multi-decade, multi-country analysis of Horse & Sparrow to know it was bad news: the Great Panic & the Republican Great Depression convinced everybody
Anne Lamott, in her book 'Help, Thanks, Wow' has a great take on a conversation between Job and God. Job asks God (in so many words), "Why did you do all this to me? I don't understand...." God responds, "Any snappy little explanation you might come up with will be horseshit; you just wouldn't understand." Job was a really rich guy, didn't really share his wealth outside of his ne'er-do-well kids (they were drinking and partying when the wind crushed them in their fancy tent) and probably got what he deserved. So, I guess the moral of the story is... any snappy explanation of 'voodoo economics' or whatever you want to call it is... Horseshit!
Great reporting and writing. So, the rich right wingers have been looting us longer than I thought, but it figures. 1896 I didn't know about, 1929 everyone knows about it, but they don't call it the early trickle down. Throw in love of free trade and immigration and offshore banking and capitalist healthcare and unfunded wars and bank bailouts and interest on the national debt and much more also. Well over a hundred trillion has been taken from the American middle class in my opinion the last 125 years.
This group of greedy lying ungrateful insane regressive parasitic sadists (GLUIRPS), is why democracy in America and all over the world could end. The current GOP wants to give them even more money, which is totally obscene. No wonder so many truth seeking young people are depressed.
The study of Reaganomics from the London School of Economics needs to be publicized anytime the Republicans want a tax cut for the wealthy. Thanks for shedding light on this, as always.
The question is how to educate and motivate the citizen, especially when you have 109 cowardly Representatives voting to condemn socialism.? The Media isn't and won't help, because the shareholders, boards, and CEO's would be "cutting their own throats" and that includes progressives like Joy Reid, Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow, Al Sharpton. You certainly won't here anything from that selfish pig Bill Maher or any other "comedian" who slops from the media trough.
President Biden mentioned the growth of the number of billionaires and indicated that it is not good. There are dedicated "capitalist" Democrats, but all Dems know what's sucking the life out of the middle-class while creating the working poor and homeless people. It serves no purpose to criticize them as some of the commenters do. The vast majority of the population know about tax disparity. The message has broken through about secretaries and teachers paying a higher percentage than corporations and billionaires. Republicans have lost that battle.
Now is the time to hammer home a message about the real job-creators. It's us, the answer is always us---folks who that buy the products and services and do the work to produce them. Everything functions just fine without the ultra-rich. We would be so much better off as a society without billionaires that are fools, cheap-skates, and psychos. The money to them is just a means of keeping score. Time for some game-changers.
Good Report on some bad business, tax policies, and Republicans that are full of crap!
Talking of ego trips. Musk is on one. There is no way that mankind can colonize Mars, or even live on the planet, much less the moon, for a number of reasons, 1/6th earth gravity, radiation, inability of Mars or the Moon to hold light gases to it's surface ( the only reason we have an atmosphere and water is because of the earths gravity. Also lesser gravity means less bone mass, smaller muscles and tendons, and children born in that environment would be cripples on earth and need a powered exoskeleton and what Martian sunlight would do to the eyes is unknown, and then there is real problem of growing vegetables on Mars
So Musk is scamming us and NASA IS going along with it, because it means jobs, status, positions, prestige.
Anne Lamott, in her book 'Help, Thanks, Wow' has a great take on a conversation between Job and God. Job asks God (in so many words), "Why did you do all this to me? I don't understand...." God responds, "Any snappy little explanation you might come up with will be horseshit; you just wouldn't understand." Job was a really rich guy, didn't really share his wealth outside of his ne'er-do-well kids (they were drinking and partying when the wind crushed them in their fancy tent) and probably got what he deserved. So, I guess the moral of the story is... any snappy explanation of 'voodoo economics' or whatever you want to call it is... Horseshit!
Great reporting and writing. So, the rich right wingers have been looting us longer than I thought, but it figures. 1896 I didn't know about, 1929 everyone knows about it, but they don't call it the early trickle down. Throw in love of free trade and immigration and offshore banking and capitalist healthcare and unfunded wars and bank bailouts and interest on the national debt and much more also. Well over a hundred trillion has been taken from the American middle class in my opinion the last 125 years.
This group of greedy lying ungrateful insane regressive parasitic sadists (GLUIRPS), is why democracy in America and all over the world could end. The current GOP wants to give them even more money, which is totally obscene. No wonder so many truth seeking young people are depressed.
Horse Manure Economic 's ( HME )...
The ‘Horses’ ( asses) in Congress don’t get it and the worst, they don’t care.
The study of Reaganomics from the London School of Economics needs to be publicized anytime the Republicans want a tax cut for the wealthy. Thanks for shedding light on this, as always.
The question is how to educate and motivate the citizen, especially when you have 109 cowardly Representatives voting to condemn socialism.? The Media isn't and won't help, because the shareholders, boards, and CEO's would be "cutting their own throats" and that includes progressives like Joy Reid, Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow, Al Sharpton. You certainly won't here anything from that selfish pig Bill Maher or any other "comedian" who slops from the media trough.
The only thing that "trickles down" from the rich is brown stuff. Ruthie B
President Biden mentioned the growth of the number of billionaires and indicated that it is not good. There are dedicated "capitalist" Democrats, but all Dems know what's sucking the life out of the middle-class while creating the working poor and homeless people. It serves no purpose to criticize them as some of the commenters do. The vast majority of the population know about tax disparity. The message has broken through about secretaries and teachers paying a higher percentage than corporations and billionaires. Republicans have lost that battle.
Now is the time to hammer home a message about the real job-creators. It's us, the answer is always us---folks who that buy the products and services and do the work to produce them. Everything functions just fine without the ultra-rich. We would be so much better off as a society without billionaires that are fools, cheap-skates, and psychos. The money to them is just a means of keeping score. Time for some game-changers.
Good Report on some bad business, tax policies, and Republicans that are full of crap!
Talking of ego trips. Musk is on one. There is no way that mankind can colonize Mars, or even live on the planet, much less the moon, for a number of reasons, 1/6th earth gravity, radiation, inability of Mars or the Moon to hold light gases to it's surface ( the only reason we have an atmosphere and water is because of the earths gravity. Also lesser gravity means less bone mass, smaller muscles and tendons, and children born in that environment would be cripples on earth and need a powered exoskeleton and what Martian sunlight would do to the eyes is unknown, and then there is real problem of growing vegetables on Mars
So Musk is scamming us and NASA IS going along with it, because it means jobs, status, positions, prestige.