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Tag Archives: taxing the rich
Putting Boots (Birkenstocks) on the Ground: Part V
It’s all about people power. Not PACs and SuperPACS. Not big piles of money. Change still comes down to the choice each of us personally makes in the voting booth. Power resides in our aligning our individual choices, so that collectively — as in tens of millions of us united in an unstoppable juggernaut of people power — we get done what needs to get done. We must elect representatives who represent us. We will guarantee they will represent us by making candidates sign legally-binding contracts. Or we don’t vote for them. Continue reading
Posted in Deconstruction, Democracy, Political Analysis
Tagged candidate contracts, Citizens United, community, congress, constitution, GMO labeling, infrastructure, local politics, Medicare, military budget, minimum wage, oil industry subsidies, reducing the military, social security, taxing the rich
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Putting Boots (Birkenstocks) on the Ground: Part IV
People must unite at a local level, not under party banners, but as a voting bloc around issues that are important to them. Party labels — also very much the case with ideological labels — muddy the waters, get people unfocused on what’s truly consequential. ‘Democrat’, ‘Republican’, ‘liberal’, ‘conservative’, ‘libertarian’ — even more so with ‘socialist’, ‘Tea Party’, and ‘Green Party’ — have recently become so emotionally charged, clear thinking becomes difficult, constructive dialogue impossible. Continue reading
Posted in Deconstruction, Democracy, Political Analysis, Social Commentary, War and Peace
Tagged Bernie Sanders, Citizens United, community, congress, constitution, Donald Trump, GMO labeling, Hillary Clinton, local politics, Medicare, military budget, minimum wage, social security, taxing the rich
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What if you . . . ?
What if hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands of voters did the same as you and voted for someone they could trust, even though that person was not a Democrat or a Republican? Continue reading
We’ll just have to agree to agree.
Agree to disagree? I have a better idea! How about if we agree to agree? Go from there. Continue reading
Posted in Deconstruction, Democracy, Political Analysis, Social Commentary, War and Peace
Tagged Citizens United, GMO labeling, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Medicare, military budget, minimum wage, oil industry subsidies, Pakistan, Russia, social security, Syria, taxing the rich, Ukraine, world peace, Yemen
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Extreme? Radical? Or just realistic?
Is it extreme to expect honest representation? Is it radical to want a functioning democracy? Or is it just realistic to expect our system of government to work for all of us, not just the privileged and powerful? Continue reading
Posted in Corporatism, Political Analysis, Political Rant
Tagged campaign finance reform, Citizens United, congress, defense spending, elections, F-35, House of Representatives, hypocrisy, lobbyists, minimum wage, oil subsidies, Senate, social security, taxing the rich, Wall Street, Washington bubble
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Throw the bums out!
Either we rise up now in a bloodless coup at the polls or we rise up later in the streets. Revolution in the streets will not be bloodless and I suspect it won’t end well. It’s up to us to make the choice. Continue reading
Pledge: Oil Industry Subsidies
The voting public nationally has stated its position on oil industry subsidies loud and clear. It wants them done away with immediately! So let’s go after the turncoat toadies who have been voting their pocketbooks and have opposed ending this horrific and wasteful giveaway of our tax dollars to corporations that already are awash in profits. Continue reading
Posted in Political Analysis, Political Rant
Tagged bribery, campaign finance reform, candidate contracts, candidate pledges, coercion, congressman, conservatives, corporate welfare, democracy, Democrats, Grover Norquist, incumbents, independents, liberals, lobbyists, oil industry subsidies, political action, political puppets, progressives, representative government, Republicans, senators, social security, taxing the rich, war
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The October Surprise
They say timing is everything. It may not be everything but it certainly is critical. When is the best time to present the candidate pledges? When should this confrontation take place? I am recommending the first week of October, one month before the election. The October Surprise. Everybody loves surprises! Continue reading
Posted in Political Analysis, Political Rant
Tagged Afghanistan, bribery, campaign finance reform, candidate contracts, candidate pledges, coercion, congressman, conservatives, corporate welfare, democracy, Democrats, education, Grover Norquist, incumbents, independents, liberals, lobbyists, oil industry subsidies, political action, political puppets, progressives, representative government, Republicans, schools, senators, social security, taxing the rich, war
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How Pledges Can Work
How will candidate pledges for progressive positions on key issues be effective? How will this work? Intimidation! We will either make the toadying hypocrites sign the pledges out of fear that they will lose the election, or we will run them out of office by instigating voter outrage for voting against the laws the vast majority of Americans want. Continue reading
Posted in Political Analysis, Political Rant
Tagged Afghanistan, bribery, campaign finance reform, candidate contracts, candidate pledges, coercion, congressman, conservatives, corporate welfare, democracy, Democrats, education, Grover Norquist, incumbents, independents, liberals, lobbyists, oil industry subsidies, political action, political puppets, progressives, representative government, Republicans, schools, senators, social security, taxing the rich, war
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Warren Buffett or Jimmy Buffett?
The Warren Buffett Rule for reforming Congress is a nice idea. In fact, it’s a great idea! But it suffers from one fatal flaw. It would have to be passed by Congress. And as the record clearly shows, our current Congress will do nothing for everyday citizens. They are 100% loyal to, in fact owned by, the rich and powerful. Until we replace 95% of those currently in our legislative bodies, we can kiss good-bye any hope of getting anything done which will benefit the vast majority of us. We need to stop kidding ourselves and get to work: Regime change in Washington DC! Continue reading →