UK "Conservatives" Killing the NHS for Private Profit
This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post, Living with the UK's National Health Service as right-wingers work to defund it.I live in the UK now. The “conservative” UK government is engaged in a...
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This was a stream of consciousness rant I sent to someone… I originally posted this at Government Cheese — Chronicling the collapse of democracyLast year I moved to England. The “Tories” (Conservative...
View ArticleImpeachment Is Not Enough
The problem with impeachment is it doesn't really solve our problem. The problem we have goes so far beyond just Trump and into flaws in the the design of our system.George Washington established rule...
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Tax Cuts Defund The Very Things That Boost The Economy
After 8 years of complaining about "Obama deficits," Republicans are proposing huge, dramatic, unprecedented tax cuts, especially for corporations. President Trump wants the rate cut from 35% down to...
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United Incident Shows Why Democracy Needs To Re-Regulate Corporations
In a democracy, We the People are in charge. We are the boss of the corporations. At least that's how it's supposed to work.Apparently, that isn't so much the way it is anymore. The United States used...
View ArticleDid Trump Attack Syria for Personal Profit?
At any other time, the questions raised by (fill in the blank) would be the scandal of the decade. Now, with Donald Trump as president, we call it Monday.Thursday evening, Trump attacked Syria, a...
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Tax Cuts Steal Democracy
The Trump administration, as have all Republican administrations, is promoting tax cuts for the rich, saying they will "create growth." Never mind the destructive history of tax cuts, the destructive...
View ArticleThe 'Lower The Tax Rate To Attract Businesses' Competitiveness Scam
Now that Republicans are running Congress and the executive branch, they're planning to "reform" (cut) corporate taxes (again). This time they using the subterfuge of "this will make companies more...
View ArticleThis Isn’t Just Trump. This Is Who The Republicans Are.
So far President Trump has signed very few bills. One lets coal companies dump waste into streams. The other lets oil companies bribe foreign dictators in secret. And he is moving to block a Labor...
View ArticleHolocaust Denial and Religious Persecution, Courtesy of the White House
Friday was Holocaust Remembrance Day. As you may have heard, the White house marked the occasion with this statement:It is with a heavy heart and somber mind that we remember and honor the victims,...
View ArticleTrump Declares TPP Still Dead. So Now What?
President Trump formally withdrew the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Though TPP was killed by a long progressive fight that resulted in it not having the votes to pass Congress, of...
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Trump Punch Down Strategy Endangers Local Union Leader
"You better keep your eye on your kids. We know what car you drive." That's the kind of threats a local union official is getting after President-presumed-Elect Donald Trump tweeted something bad about...
View ArticleTrump's Absurd Plan To Dismantle Government's Protections
Donald Trump released a video announcing his agenda for his "first day in office." One of the things he said is, "I will formulate a rule which says that for every one new regulation, two old...
View ArticleThe Damage From Free Trade Helped Elect Trump
It seems that lots of media/political/business people "on the coasts" don't get how big a deal trade played in Tuesday's election.Sold On Free TradeIn the late 70s the country was told that...
View ArticleImpeachment Is Not Enough
The problem with impeachment is it doesn't really solve our problem. The problem we have goes so far beyond just Trump and into flaws in the the design of our system.George Washington established rule...
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Tax Cuts Defund The Very Things That Boost The Economy
After 8 years of complaining about "Obama deficits," Republicans are proposing huge, dramatic, unprecedented tax cuts, especially for corporations. President Trump wants the rate cut from 35% down to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
United Incident Shows Why Democracy Needs To Re-Regulate Corporations
In a democracy, We the People are in charge. We are the boss of the corporations. At least that's how it's supposed to work.Apparently, that isn't so much the way it is anymore. The United States used...
View ArticleDid Trump Attack Syria for Personal Profit?
At any other time, the questions raised by (fill in the blank) would be the scandal of the decade. Now, with Donald Trump as president, we call it Monday.Thursday evening, Trump attacked Syria, a...
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Tax Cuts Steal Democracy
The Trump administration, as have all Republican administrations, is promoting tax cuts for the rich, saying they will "create growth." Never mind the destructive history of tax cuts, the destructive...
View ArticleThe 'Lower The Tax Rate To Attract Businesses' Competitiveness Scam
Now that Republicans are running Congress and the executive branch, they're planning to "reform" (cut) corporate taxes (again). This time they using the subterfuge of "this will make companies more...
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