By Mark | November 18, 2010
I’ve been writing a lot about lately about the growing gap between rich and poor in American, and the systematic destruction of the middle class, and how I believe both trends to be destructive to our Democracy. I didn’t want to write about it tonight, though. I was actually planning to take the night off, […]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Also tagged Argentina, Bush tax cuts, Economic Policy Institute, Eisenhower, estate tax, George Soros, Guyana, inheritance tax, Nicaragua, Nicholas Kristof, nuclear arms treaty, nuclear weapons, Plutocracy, Putin, rich get richer, Ronald Reagan, Russia, tax the rich, taxing the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, the plight of the overtaxed rich, Venezuela, wealth inequality |
By Mark | November 9, 2010
I’ve been posting a lot of doom and gloom stuff recently, but, truth is, there are some good things happening in the United States for the middle class. For one, we were able to launch the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in spite of a well-orchestrated and well-financed campaign by big business. While we’re still unsure […]
By Mark | November 3, 2010
The best take on yesterday’s election that I’ve found thus far came from the folks at Think Progress. Here’s what they had to say: Riding a wave of discontent, Republicans overtook the House of Representatives by great numbers, but foundered in the U.S. Senate, where the media spotlight on Tea Party candidates like Sharron Angle […]
Posted in Environment, Politics | Also tagged angry Republicans and their ideas, Bush, Bush tax cuts, Carly Fiorina, Center for American Progress, Christine O'Donnell, deregulation, election results, Eric Cantor, FreedomWorks, fucking Democrats, global climate change, inept Democrats, Jeb Bush, John Boehner, John Podesta, Ken Buck, mandates, Matt Kibbe, Meg Whitman, Michael Steele, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, recession, Republican platform, Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, tax the rich, tea party, the hijacking of the Republican party, the plight of the overtaxed rich, Tom Donohue, Wall Street |
By Mark | October 17, 2010
One of my biggest regrets, at least politically speaking, is that I invested as much as I did in the John Edwards campaign. It sounds incredibly naive in retrospect, I know, but I really believed that he was sincerely running because he wanted to stand up for regular Americans, and bring morality and integrity back […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Politics | Also tagged Center on Poverty Work and Opportunity, Eric Lagergren, John Edwards, let down by my leaders, pictures of men trying to get laid, political endorsements, politicians caught on tape, poverty, Presidential politics, regrets, RFK, Rielle Hunter, Robert Kennedy, UNC, University of North Carolina |
