Here’s a story about Jigar Shah, long-term friend and colleague, and how he finds himself in a position within the U.S. Department of Energy to make loans totaling hundreds of billions of dollars to companies in cleantech. As the director …
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Paying Competitive Wages
What Kit is saying here is 100% correct. What is happening, of course, is these companies don’t pay their employees enough to be competitive, and are therefore perpetually understaffed.
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National Sales Tax
If further evidence were required that Republican lawmakers are hellbent on making the rich richer and the poor poorer, consider that the GOP is reintroducing the National Sales Tax. These means the abolition of all federal and state income taxes, …
Why the Poor Support Trump
It’s because most poor people were denied access to quality education, and, as a consequence, tend to be bamboozled by ruthless people. This produces the counter-intuitive fact that we should feel sorry for Trump supporters. How would you like to go through …
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It’s Simple Cruelty
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, …
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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