Now, let us take this analogy one step further. The poker tournament is the economy, and the players contribute to it simply by playing, regardless of whether they win or lose. The people playing with real cash are business owners and the like, but ordinary workers don’t have that sort of money, so in order […]
What is wrong with capitalism? The short answer is nothing, or at most, very little. Virtually all the problems laid at the door of capitalism are actually due to finance. These problems include debt, depressions, and something called unemployment. To help you understand the nature of these problems and their solution, here is a perfect […]
On Thursday night, a Zoom meeting was held by Catholic Voices, which was set up in the UK in 2010; it is a registered charity. It came about after the Pope endorsed the concept of Universal Basic Income; also known by its initials UBI, as simply basic income, and, for Major Douglas fans, as Social […]
There Are Solutions is my favorite political slogan, and in this year of crisis 2020 there are many solutions in the air. One of my favorite political quotes is by Thoreau, “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations […]
In July, the Stop The War Coalition held a Zoom meeting in which its invited speakers blamed war on “Imperialism”. Topically but not surprisingly the British role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade had more than a little to do with it, and listeners were treated to a clown from the African Diaspora explaining how if it hadn’t been for the slave trade, Africa would be leading the world in technology, art, and everything else.
From the Manhattan Institute…
What do young progressives believe? In the popular vernacular, they are described as “liberals” or “leftists,” but these familiar labels obscure what is novel about the ideology many young activists are trying to advance in our universities, cultural institutions, media outlets, and even corporations. On issues of race, diversity, gender, and sexual expression these activists have made a clean break with their liberal forebearers.
Caught with their proverbial pants down? The blustery conversations tied to corona virus, lockdown, Trump LLC, Pelosi and Comp., and the failed state that is the USA are to be expected.
It is a country of nanosecond attention spans.
A country with amnesia in vitro.
A country that has sacrificed future and future-future generations for the all mighty dollar.
Dog-eat-dog?
Survival of the fittest (or in the reverse Darwinism, survival of the least fit, the least smart, the least humane, the least human).
As the COVID-death toll surged past 100,000 this Memorial Day, Marianne Williamson recorded a new video in the home where's she's sheltering, a video based on the hashtag she's been promulgating for months. Just before recording, she told me that "Anyone with a heart can see that $2,000 a month direct cash relief is necessary in order for tens of millions of people to make it through this crisis. Instead, our government is actually cutting back on its commitments to help our citizens cope with a calamitous economic crisis.
Job-creation is and always has been a massive priority of governments worldwide. In 2012, the World Bank claimed 600 million new jobs needed to be created over the next fifteen years. In this connection, here is a classic quote from 1933: “A war would be a great idea…Another war would give our three million unemployed ample employment.”
