economic sabotage

The Goal of the Neo-Liberal Consensus Is to Manage the Decline

"578,000 live homeless on any given night" (click to enlarge; source)by Gaius PubliusIf you think of the country as in decline, as most people do, and you think the cause is the predatory behavior of the big-money elites, as most people do, then you must know you have only two choices — acceptance and resistance.Why do neo-liberal Democrats, like the Clinton campaign, not wa

America's Ruling Elites Are Screwing The Rest Of Us Out Of Selfishness And Greed

"We can't have a prosperous economy," explains former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich in the video above, "without a large and growing middle class." Over the weekend, his column dealt with the Republican Party's systematic sabotage of the economy. They're opposing policies that grow and sustain the middle class and they're pushing an agenda that pushes more ordinary working families into economic distress and poverty. Reich focuses on the GOP's obstruction of every attempt to improve the jobs situation.