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Thursday, May 18th, 2023For the first hundred years of American history, there was one cause of public debt: war. The United States of America started in debt, and it paid its bills. There wasn’t another spike in debt to Gross Domestic Product ratio until the American Civil War. At this point, you might ask what is the debt […]
Conservatism Is Expensive
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023Fox News just agreed to pay $787.5 million for lying about Dominion voting machines. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton offered to use $3.3 million of tax dollars to settle a whistleblower case. Donald Trump paid nearly $300,000 to cover up his extramarital affairs. It must be nice to have millions of dollars to pay for […]
Keep the Vultures off Social Security and Medicare
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023Maya Angelou said, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Liberals showed you who they are by creating and defending Social Security and Medicare. Conservatives showed you who they were by opposing and undermining Social Security and Medicare. In 1935 Franklin Delano Roosevelt championed Social Security during the Great Depression. […]
Roots Run Deep
Friday, January 6th, 2023In October of 1929 the New York Stock market crashed and took down the global economy. Conservative President Herbert Hoover chose to keep government help limited. For the next three years the economy remained in free fall. This horrible experience taught voters that something had to change. Millions of people realized that they had the […]
La même chose
Thursday, November 10th, 2022It is a truism that elections have consequences. No doubt this Tuesday election will also, but it will not change much. All across the country voters dug into familiar patterns rather than alter course. Nationally, President Joe Biden can lock in his legislative victories. Here to stay are the insulin price cap for seniors, lower […]
Life and Death in Texas
Wednesday, October 19th, 2022Texas Republicans want you to prepare for the next schools shooting. Greg Abbott is sending school children home with fingerprint and DNA kits. Abbott wants to make it easier for you to identify your child’s dead body. Republicans have controlled Texas Government for the past two decades. They have cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires. […]
Straw Man
Thursday, October 13th, 2022Boxers and soldiers often train fighting dummies. It is easy to understand why. Dummies don’t fight back. Eventually, however, a good fighters needs to train against another human as an opponent if they want to win a real fight. Debates work similarly with words. Some debaters only fight straw men; others, preferring a challenge, argue […]
Earth Race
Thursday, October 21st, 2021You don’t have to listen long to hear what workers are saying about their lives. Their hours are long. Their pay is stagnant. They want more time with their children. They live one healthcare emergency away from bankruptcy. Millionaires and billionaires, however, have never had it better. They have the lowest tax rate since the […]
Seeds of Sedition
Thursday, July 29th, 2021The January 6 attack on American Democracy grew from seeds planted 40 years earlier. In the 1980s conservative activists created incendiary rhetoric to attack our government. Since the New Deal, conservatives had lost to a wave of progressive legislation. The Federal Government improved the lives of seniors with Social Security and Medicare. It improved the […]
Promote the General Welfare
Thursday, July 22nd, 2021Taxes fund public services. A vote is our voice for funding these services. As a community, we decide on which services to fund or how they are funded. We benefit from these services either directly or indirectly. Direct benefits are pretty easy to understand. If you have a child in a school, then you and […]
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