By Mark | August 14, 2014
According to The Hill, the fall 2014 edition of the academic journal Perspectives on Politics will contain definitive evidence that, statistically speaking, you and I, as average Americans, have “virtually no impact whatsoever on the making of national policy in our country.” Here, with more on the findings of Princeton University’s Martin Gilens and Northwestern […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged American aristocracy, Benjamin Page, Charles Koch, income inequality, Koch brothers, Martin Gilens, Martin Luther King, MLK, oligarchy, Perspectives on Politics, Plutocracy, political science, wealth inequality |
By Mark | September 23, 2013
For those of you without access to public television, Bill Moyers celebrated the fifth anniversary of “the fiscal meltdown that almost tanked the world economy” a few days ago by speaking with my hero, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich about wealth inequality in the United States, and his soon-to-be-released documentary film Inequality for All. […]
Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 99%, An Inconvenient Truth, banking, Bill Moyers, deregulation, Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Eisenhower, get the money out of Washington, Glass-Steagall Act, income inequ, Inequality for All, lobbying, money in politics, Occupy Wall Street, Robert Reich, shared prosperity, the threat of Socialism, Wall Street deregulation, wealth inequality |
I’m sure that most of you have seen it already, as it’s been all over the web today, but, just in case you haven’t, I’d highly recommend that you take a few minutes and watch this short animated video on the subject of wealth disparity in America. I suspect that our readers on the far […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Economics | Also tagged American aristocracy, class warfare, Detroit, Emergency Manager, frogs, Harlem Shake, income inequality, memes, Mitt Romney, Rick Snyder, wealth inequality |
By Mark | February 17, 2010
When I sat down here tonight, in my tattered blogging leotard, my intention was to write something on the apparent effectiveness of Obama’s stimulus spending, and the possibility that his recently proposed budget would “shift $112 billion away from the nation’s top earners in 2012.” But, while trying to find a way to connect those […]
