Saturday, June 5, 2010

Keynes Quote

Most politicians, bankers and wall street operatives are promoting a typical Keynesian approach to try to solve our economic disaster.

John Maynard Keynes, the British economist is the architect of our present economic system in America and around the World

In Keynes' 1920 book, "The Economic Consequences of the Peace", he states, " by a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of its citizens. There is no surer nor more subtle way to overturn the existing basis of society, than to debauch or destroy the currency. It engages all the processes of economic law that comes down on the side of destruction and does it in a manner that not one in a million can diagnose".

Mitt Romney Breakdown

JP Morgan Paid $1.9 Billion For Washington Mutual And Now It Wants A $1.4 Billion Tax Refund

JP Morgan Paid $1.9 Billion For Washington Mutual And Now It Wants A $1.4 Billion Tax Refund

How's that bailout looking? Net positive for the economy? Here's a thought to keep in mind. Corporations don't pay taxes. Not like you and I anyway. Sure they bitch about it, and Neocon Republicans complain about double taxation, but it's a false argument. Corporations pay taxes on earnings, not income (revenues). We pay taxes on income. How nice would it be if we paid taxes on our "net." So, start with your salary, take out mortgage, credit card bills, house bills, 401k deposits, etc... then pay taxes on what's left. That wouldn't be too bad, would it?

Military Spending Stats

World Financial Crisis Explained (comedy)

Friday, January 8, 2010

Move Your Money

This is a free-market solution.
We do not need to ask the government to fix corporate greed.
This is how you get corporations to change policy.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Use of potentially harmful chemicals kept secret under law

"Of the 84,000 chemicals in commercial use in the United States -- from flame retardants in furniture to household cleaners -- nearly 20 percent are secret, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, their names and physical properties guarded from consumers and virtually all public officials under a little-known federal provision. "

Washington Post Article


Notice that the law here is not to protect you. It is to protect a business.

Boston Legal Speech - When Will We Rise Up?

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

New York Medicaid Fraud May Reach Into Billions

"It has drawn dentists like Dr. Dolly Rosen, who within 12 months somehow built the state's biggest Medicaid dental practice out of a Brooklyn storefront, where she claimed to have performed as many as 991 procedures a day in 2003. After The New York Times discovered her extraordinary billings through a computer analysis and questioned the state about them, Dr. Rosen and two associates were indicted on charges of stealing more than $1 million from the program."

New York Medicaid Fraud May Reach Into Billions

The inefficiency and ineffectiveness of public services...what a waste of resources. The guy had been busted for fraudulent claims before, and it still took them 10 years to figure this out!


Health Care: Industry Cash Flowed To Drafters of Reform

At the table on May 26 were about 20 donors willing to fork over $10,000 or more to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, including executives of major insurance companies, hospitals and other health-care firms.

"Most people there had an agenda; they wanted the ear of a senator, and they got it," said Aaron Roland, a San Francisco health-care activist who paid half price to attend the gathering. "Money gets you in the door. The only thing the other side can do is march around and protest outside."

Health-Care Firms Have Supported Lawmakers Debating Reform - washingtonpost.com

Regulations are put in place to help individual companies, not to help "us."  The only way to prevent this is to minimize the ability to make regulations.


Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Thursday, May 28, 2009

UK Telegraph: Abu Ghraib abuse photos 'show rape'

"Detail of the content emerged from Major General Antonio Taguba, the former army officer who conducted an inquiry into the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq."

Abu Ghraib abuse photos 'show rape' - Telegraph