January 16, 2012
In response to this post about the poor’s rich envy… http://critical-thinker.net/?p=943 I think you may find the Economic Policy Institute has some interesting facts concerning the rich and poor. http://www.epi.org/publication/11-telling-charts-about-2011-economy/ For example: “In other words, the richest 5 percent of households obtained roughly 82 percent of all the nation’s gains in wealth between 1983 and [...]
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January 12, 2012
I grew up in Louisiana. I was continually around fundamentalist Christians and Republicans. If anyone tells you that Mitt’s Mormonism is not important to fundamentalists, they are ignorant about fundamentalism. Denominations are famous for slamming other denominations. I can’t tell you how many times I heard sermons at Southern Baptist churches about how the Vatican [...]
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January 11, 2012
What happened after 30 trillion dollars of credit default swap derivatives flooded the worldwide market… This is my understanding, based on the data cited here: http://www.mixermuse.com/blog/2012/01/10/the-facts-how-the-republicans-created-our-current-economic-crisis/ http://mixermuse.com/blog/2010/10/14/how-george-bush-and-the-private-mortgage-market-created-the-perfect-storm/ In the latter part of the last decade, real estate pricing had been on the rise for decades and was due for a correction. Credit default swaps (CDS) [...]
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January 10, 2012
Myths about the Mortgage Meltdown Myth 1: Clinton caused the mortgage meltdown Myth 2: Low income lending caused the mortgage meltdown Myth 3: Bush did not contribute to the mortgage melt down Myth 4: The private (free market) was not the cause of the mortgage meltdown The increase of MBS (mortgage backed securities) purchased by [...]
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January 9, 2012
“Class warfare has been going on for decades. Republicans are really good at propaganda. However, they have finally deconstructed themselves. They could only talk generally for so long about cutting the size of the Federal government before their rhetoric caught up to them. Now that their own people are demanding that they walk the talk, [...]
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January 6, 2012
Here are the latest numbers: Bush debt increase: 85% Obama debt increase: 43% Bush increase in unemployment: 86% Obama increase in unemployment: 9% Bottom Line: Anyone that tells you President Obama ran up the debt percentage wise more the President Bush OR that President Obama ran up unemployment percentage wise more than Bush IS A [...]
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January 2, 2012
There used to be a conservative website, some of its content is still around, called “The Postmodern Conservative”. I read a little content from this site as I am a little intrigued how one could maintain the conjecture of a ‘postmodern conservative’. On the surface, this is an oxymoron. Perhaps it is intended ironically. It [...]
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December 31, 2011
I am always amazed at right-wing efforts to revise history to fit their canonical wish for purity. The most absurd attempt I can think of is “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning” by Jonah Goldberg. According to Goldberg, Democrats should feel right at home in [...]
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December 30, 2011
It is odd that Republicans how found religion on the debt after the Bush administration ran the debt up 85% while President Obama’s administration has only run it up 41%. http://mixermuse.com/blog/2011/12/08/all-you-need-to-know-about-politics/ Let’s not even think about discretionary and non-discretionary parts of the budget. In any case, I think most of us can agree debt is [...]
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December 30, 2011
Mitt recently stated, “The president says he wants to transform America, I don’t want to transform America into something else. I want to restore it” Mitt Romney along with Sarah Palin is fond of mocking President Obama for his promise of “hope and change”. So, what is the alternative to hope and change? Is it [...]
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