Victory Begins With Surrender
At the end of every war, before there can be lasting peace and real progress, there must come surrender. Arguably, genocide is another way to end a war, but this is arguable because true genocide is...
View ArticleTo Those Who Oppose Impeachment: Why?
This is a question that's never been adequately answered to my satisfaction by those who oppose impeachment. You all often claim that impeachment will be a distraction, and that if we pursue it, it...
View ArticleProgressive Economic Stabilization: Guaranteed Minimum Income
The prevailing economic policy philosophy of the past 20 years has been one which focuses nearly exclusively on supply-side stimulus and deregulation in order to manage the economy for maximal social...
View ArticleProgressive Economic Stabilization: Guaranteed Minimum Income
The prevailing economic policy philosophy of the past 20 years has been one which focuses nearly exclusively on supply-side stimulus and deregulation in order to manage the economy for maximal social...
View ArticleThank you, Hillary
Seriously, thank you for the tremendous service you, your campaign and most especially your supporters are doing for the Democratic Party and our Presidential nominee, Barack H. Obama.
View ArticleA Small Change That Could Do a Lot of Good
This is not a candidate diary. This is about a fairly old idea that, at various times in the history of our country, has been supported by both Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals....
View ArticleThe absolute necessity of a BIG
If you've checked my diary history, you'll know that lately, I've been on a kick trying to talk to people about a very important idea. This time, instead of trying to sell you all on its benefits and...
View ArticleThe insustainability of free exchange
I know, in my last diary, I promised to post the results of some experiments on a guaranteed minimum income. But in the meantime, I've had an idea occur to me on an abstraction of the structure of...
View Article"Complicity" is the stupidest argument I've ever heard
It never fails. Whenever an impeachment diary get more than a handful of comments, foremost among the reasons offered is the notion that it won't happen because, somehow, Democratic Congressmembers...
View ArticleEconomic policy
With the failure of Republican economic ideology writ large across the headlines of our newspapers and the stock market, a vacuum of economic policy theory seems to be emerging. This failed ideology...
View ArticleRight to work?
We can thank the Puritans and Protestants. Today, one of the biggest bugaboos that plagues any rational discussion of domestic tax, welfare and economic reform policy comes from the attitudes toward...
View ArticleEnough Supply Side Bull$H!T
This stuff is starting to piss me off. Consumer debt and the Federal deficit are at all time highs. The savings rate is negative, and businesses are shedding jobs like a cat sheds hair because people...
View ArticleToward a democratic economy
Recent events have begun to reveal certain problems with the structure of our economy, problems that many of us have been aware of for some time, but many have been struggling to clearly articulate....
View ArticleQuestion for Lawyers and Others regarding Corporate Speech
Many of us are concerned about the recent Supreme Court ruling that removes the restriction on corporate funded political speech during campaigns. We believe that a lack of restrictions on the ability...
View ArticlePrinciples of Demand-side Economics
Supply-side ideology is deeply entrenched in the political common wisdom of how to deal with the economy. It's so deeply entrenched that many policies, even Democratic ones, no longer recognize their...
View ArticleWhy do Governments need to tax?
Your government has things it has to do. It's supposed to put cops on the street to make people safe, fill potholes in roads, ensure the pensions of the elderly, organize the education of the People's...
View ArticleStraight Razor Shaving: Saving Money, Reducing Waste
I'm a progressive sort of guy. I like technology, especially when it makes my life more enjoyable and makes a difficult chore easier. But sometimes, very rarely, the oldest ways of doing a thing are...
View ArticleComparing the Federal Government's budget to a Household
It's a prevalent idea, that the federal budget can be easily compared to a family or business budget. The idea is simple: if a household or business spends more than it makes, it has to take on...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal
If the title's not enough of a clue for you, then let me be explicit in saying that what follows is presented mostly tongue-in-cheek.This proposal was spurred by an off-hand comment I read on an...
View ArticleDemocrats: Be Wary of a Trump Independent Run!
There's a lot of fun to be had right now, watching Trump leading the Republican field, and the Republican establishment's consternation as a result. And while his current candidacy is a huge boon for...
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