I’m not sure we need all the detail here. Every developed country other than the United States has single payer healthcare, simply because it’s the way civilized people get along with one another. Americans have no problem with its citizens, …
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Rush Limbaugh and Other People with Loathsome Careers
I think frequently how happy I am that neither of my kids pursued careers that represent net damage to humankind. Obviously, being in the hate business, as Rush Limbaugh was, is near the top of the list, just below the …
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Elon Musk: Wow!
It’s amazing how Elon Musk’s antics have become an obsession, and how he’s made such a complete ass out of himself on the world stage. The author of the meme here states what a great number of us are thinking.
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Profiles in American Stupidity
One of the most salient features of American life today is our relentless outreach to find new levels of stupid. Marjorie Taylor Greene says that if she had been in charge of the January 6th insurrection, “we would have won.” …
This from Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich
My response: These are two different assertions. Of course workers have the right to strike, just as corporations have a right to squeeze their employees. This push-and-pull is intrinsic to a capitalist, free market, economy.
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Trickle-Down Economics
All true. Yet we have neither the interest nor the capacity to turn this around. Progressives would like to see a tax schedule that looks like what we had between the end of World War II and Reagan’s inauguration, but …
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Why the U.S. Donates Money to Foreign Countries
It’s not a matter of “guts” or “nerve.” It’s a matter of understanding the justification of foreign aid. This comes from a reader who doesn’t seem to get that the United States derives a great amount of benefit from foreign …
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Understanding Americans’ Financial Distress
Maybe you’re wondering why “no one wants to work anymore,” or how it’s possible that 60% of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck. I hope this helps.
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Demise of the Middle Class
I was chatting with an old friend yesterday, a retired internal medicine physician, who brought up the subject of the extremely large and ever-growing gulf between rich and poor, how it’s ruining American society. As we see at left, this …
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Let the Market Call the Shots Wherever Possible
Perhaps environmentalists are cheering over the news presented here. But why use the power of government to accomplish something that the market itself would have implemented? Are there people in France whose TGV trains run at 220 mph who want …
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