Displaying 31 To 60 Of 68 Comments The State of Education in America oh…engineers are highly trained but certainly not over educated! » Posted By phread On February 9, 2011 @ 4:46 pm Doing Business – The Right Way Bravo, well done Sir. I look forward to more informative articles. » Posted By phread On February 9, 2011 @ 4:41 pm proper regulation, which is desperately needed now… » Posted By phread On February 9, 2011 @ 4:31 pm American Exceptionalism, American Nightmare Very good posting…perhaps if we start by looking at our fascist economic system, onto which has been grafted the right wing ideology called neoliberalism, we may begin to understand what is happening in America Inc as well as else where in the world. The nazi’s scapegoated for political and economic reasons just like the RW does here in America Inc. Sheldon Wolin has written on the corporate control of our government, calling it inverted totalitarianism… In order to control a population in a so-called free or open society, the propaganda must be relentless… Now freedom and liberty means consumerism. The democratic party abandoned the working people soon after reagan destroyed the unions. This is where neoliberalism enters the picture;all of our presidents have been neoliberals-reagan, bush 1, clinton, bush 2 and obama. This is what people mean when they say that there is no difference between obama and bush, the same failed right wing ideology has been the driving force for over 30 years. Obama is following the same economic agenda started by reagan… » Posted By phread On February 8, 2011 @ 3:29 pm u found them… » Posted By phread On February 8, 2011 @ 6:39 pm Very funny…alimony… » Posted By phread On February 8, 2011 @ 3:08 pm awesome…there needs to be a left/progressive narrative to combat the right wing propaganda industry otherwise the left will not prevail… » Posted By phread On February 8, 2011 @ 4:07 pm ROTFLMAO…meatball sandwich with a couple of Oxycontin for dessert. » Posted By phread On February 8, 2011 @ 4:03 pm LOL… F & F » Posted By phread On February 8, 2011 @ 3:58 pm hey there…i’ve seen u at the other place… » Posted By phread On February 8, 2011 @ 2:59 am For sure…if I figured it out I’m sure many others were way ahead of me! » Posted By phread On February 7, 2011 @ 3:13 pm I have been away too long…the ability to post without using the upside down and backwards stuff is refreshing…reagan was a fascist!!!!! Had to get that out of my system…there is something wrong w/a so-called lib site-Huffpoop-where the right wing goons rule the roost. » Posted By phread On February 7, 2011 @ 3:13 pm LOL…when pigs fly…hp is a right wing cess pool » Posted By phread On February 7, 2011 @ 3:08 pm the reason for the heavy censorship of the past few weeks at HP has been revealed…i had a feeling something was up… » Posted By phread On February 7, 2011 @ 2:45 pm The Uncloak the Kochs Rally – Words, Images and Video of Democracy in Action caption for the big koch “didn’t Napoleon say that religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich?”…”lets hope so Davy” » Posted By phread On February 7, 2011 @ 3:33 pm the corporate leaders of ig farben who planned ww2, did not like scrutiny either… » Posted By phread On February 7, 2011 @ 3:26 pm This might be what it was like when the leading capitalist in germany decided to “hire” hitler.. » Posted By phread On February 7, 2011 @ 3:23 pm brilliant! » Posted By phread On March 1, 2011 @ 12:11 pm perhaps this will be of interest to you… FACTS AND FASCISM by George Seldes, assisted by Helen Seldes, © 1943 by In Fact, Inc. http://www.naderlibrary.com/seldes.factsfascismtoc.htm#table6 » Posted By phread On February 24, 2011 @ 8:36 pm that is not true…The federal funds budget does not include revenues or expenditures for trust funds. Social Security and Medicare trust fund revenues come from separate, dedicated payroll taxes… the Social Security trust fund invests any receipts not needed to pay benefits in Treasury securities, this surplus reduces the amount the Treasury must borrow from the public. » Posted By phread On February 9, 2011 @ 3:04 am The propaganda is designed to turn people off…the real reason for going after SS: “Privatization of Social Security helps the financial sector by shifting billions from Treasury securities into the stock market. The F.I.C.A. payroll tax would create the largest torrent of funds into the market in history…¬” http://michael-hudson.com/2002/11/privatizing-social-security-to-inflate-stock-market-prices/ » Posted By phread On February 9, 2011 @ 3:02 am I think perhaps that coulter is brain dead… » Posted By phread On February 9, 2011 @ 2:57 am Mr. Johnson posted it on HP and the tr0lls are on it like stupid on a Tbagger… » Posted By phread On October 24, 2010 @ 1:17 pm Beware of Greeks Blogging Gifts No I have not seen Orwell Rolls in his Grave…hhhmmmm perhaps I’ll have find it… » Posted By phread On October 30, 2010 @ 7:23 am Points well made, WTS, if I might be allowed the use of shorthand…my original point is that Sweden was out of the GP first, in 1934, and by the few accounts I have been able to locate, it was NOT because of deficit spending for war…Germany was the second nation out of the GD, because of deficit spending for war. We, in the USA, have a decision to make, continue with supply side deficit spending that is destroying our economy by creating an inefficient market system through oligopoly, and protracted war. Or do we spend to rectify the demand deficiency we currently have. The reason I find the Swedish experience interesting is it shows that deficit spending for war was not the only way to recover from the GD; this may present other options if there was an actual dialogue in the USA rather than corporate propaganda defending the failed status quo… I do thank you WTS for making me think some more about this. » Posted By phread On October 30, 2010 @ 6:44 am I have seen the Corporation and wish more people would see it. I sound like a broken record, but we have fascism in America…not like the Nazi’s, or Italian fascists and not like the Spanish falange. Gee Wiz, Germany, Italy and Spain are different nations with different cultures, each had its own version of fascism. Italy and Spain catholic, Germany mostly protestant; antisemitism was not a key driver in all fascist regimes. In 2010, we know to follow the money. Fascists were anti-labor and anti-liberal amongst a host of other anti-isms. Why would fascists be anti-labor? Germany’s economy was a shambles after WWI, how was Hitler able to deficit spend on war preparation? Eisenhower’s farewell speech says it all for me. The military Industrial Complex…but in America we have multiple corporate complexes from numerous sectors of the economy vying for that risk free tax payer money. I really believe the left must unite against this corporate control of America. This goal must be the number one priority eclipsing all other concerns. Cut off the head and the monster will die. The strength of the right is a fragmented left…this is the lesson of the Spanish Civil War. Its also nice to spell fascist without using @! » Posted By phread On October 29, 2010 @ 4:42 pm I agree…your points 5 & 6, economists call it demand deficiency, just like the GP…the corporate manipulation of markets- by trusts or monopolies/oligopolies call it what will- creates market inefficiencies. We need a regulated economy in order to have a real free market. quote boy strikes again: » Posted By phread On October 29, 2010 @ 9:23 am Sweden’s armament started in 1936 after Sweden had gotten out of the depression in 1934… “In 1936, the Swedish government started to heighten its military preparedness as the international situation worsened. Military spending in Sweden went from US$37 million in 1936, to $50 million in 1937, to $58.6 million in 1938, and then increased over fivefold to $322.3 million in 1939. During World War II itself, military spending peaked at $527.6 million in 1942.” » Posted By phread On October 29, 2010 @ 7:21 am We do indeed disagree…the facts do not support you…Sweden was neutral in WW2 Sweden’s spending was on butter not guns…again fact. » Posted By phread On October 29, 2010 @ 7:13 am yeah he did…you’d think he was talking about fox noise… » Posted By phread On October 29, 2010 @ 6:19 amComments Posted By phread
“It would be most bullish of all for the nation’s money managers. At a relatively low 2 percent commission it would yield management fees in the billions. Crowing that “It could be the biggest bonanza in the history of the mutual-fun¬d industry,” the Wall Street Journal explained that the lure for investors was “a pot of money worth trillions of dollars. The target: Social Security. The goal: to revise the program so individual workers could shunt the payroll taxes they pay into IRA-like savings accounts that would allow lump-sum withdrawal¬s at retirement¬.”
“Stephen Timbers, CEO of Kemper Financial Services, explained to the reporter that the major industry lobby for the plan was the Investment Company Institute, which formed a tax force of money managers to popularize the proposals. Edith Fierst, a member of the 1996 Clinton Administration advisory panel on privatizing Social Security said that “‘The investment industry and mutual-fun¬d lobby are thrilled with this.’ If privatization occurred, ‘they could sell to virtually every employed person in America, who would be compelled to give up some of their Social Security and put the money into a personal savings account.’”
What Sweden did after that may have been due to the threat of invasion and occupation by Germany, but with retro logic one can not make binding assertions.
I am not as angry as I had been at the success of right wing propaganda. Now I’m actually frightened. The same economic polices that put us here are still prescribed as the treatment, because there is more money to be had!
In my readings about fascism historians remark about the difficulty of defining fascism. IMHO, historians will never have a “unified theory of fascism”. Given the first tenet of fascism cited by historians is nationalism this virtually precludes a single simple definition of fascism.IMHO
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