Are "Tax Brackets" Socialist?
The answer is: NO! Idiocy reigns in the latest political season, as McCain calls Obama a “socialist. If he is, then Kennedy was, and Clinton was, and even most republicans except for Steve Forbes are all socialists. The only argument the McCainists can offer for this hare-brained assertion is that Obama supports the traditional notion [...]
what they aren’t discussing in this campaign
Why we can’t have a balanced federal budget in America Why the worst legacy of the Bush administration is the so called “culture of security” that has replaced the American culture of freedom VIRAL VIDEO HERE: Naomi Wolf’s End of America
Update: Prurient Interest in Sarah Palin
A few weeks ago, I tried to explain here in eschata that the McCain camp had chosen Palin not to appeal to the supporters of Hillary Clinton (as many presumed) but because she had an enormous potential to appeal to younger white male voters (see Pit Bull in Lipstick). The column concluded that prurient interest [...]
The Federal Debt and the Federal Budget: Some Scary Truths
Truth: The Federal Government of America is nearly 11 Trillion Dollars in Debt. Truth: The 2008 Federal budget allowed for interest payments on our national debt amounting to 21% of total spending: nearly $610 Billion. One fifth of spending! Truth: The federal budget proposed by Bush for 2008, at $2.9 Trillion dollars, allowed for only [...]
The One Billion Dollar Reward
We’re willing to give away 850 billion to Wall Street, to spend 600,000,000,000 in Iraq, and to rack up going on 11 trillion in debt since 1979… ……but we haven’t thought of simply offering a one BILLION dollar reward for Osama Bin Laden? If we could get Bin Laden, we could pull out of Afghanistan [...]
Republicans: Party of Bankruptcy
To solve the current financial crisis in America, the taxpayers will be forced to borrow nearly a trillion dollars and give it away, with no guarantees that the funds can be recovered. This money will be spent by an unelected republican appointee. It will, practically speaking, be given away to America’s richest financial companies, to [...]