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We also need to roll back the Nixonian war on education, after 45 years of which we have become a nation of morons.
Roland
It's really quite amazing to listen to the desperation in the voices of the mainstream media - if you have the stomach to watch that media at all. Bernie certainly has lit a fire under their pots. Personally, I hope the attacks continue. Finally, some quality free publicity. Oh, how the tactics of the wicked against the just tend to backfire right before their very eyes. Indeed, money cannot buy everything... Such as, the truth!
Let there be attacks on Bernie!! The more, the better. It means he's building momentum. You don't hear anyone ask. Who's Trump? And, if this keeps up, no one will be asking. Who's Bernie? They are building name recognition. I think that increased reporting on him, both good and bad, will move him forward.
This has been my opnion of Chris Matthews for years. He irritates me and I do not like tha manner in which he first asks a question and then keeps interrupting and using up the time alloted to his guests so they cannot give a decent answer without his input.
When I hear about the line-up shake-up onMSNBC I was hoping that Chris was one of them who would be going but, alas, not true.
Hey, when polling reflects two optimal responses please provide check boxes instead of radio buttions. :-)
Publicly financed campaigns---yes and add make election day a national holiday, manditory participation, and a circumscribed campaign period.
As bad as the advertising environment is, it is built on a foundation of cards; over half the commercials are for out-right fraud. They must be profitable by finding a few suckers & really taking them to the cleaners, because their promises are laughable. It used to be media wouldn't tarnish themselves by running rubbish like they do now. Bribing Congress, CEO's paid with options, stealing pensions etc. None of this should be legal; it's just building an unsustainable bubble. Perhaps they're creating a crash to swoop in & buy everything for pennies on the dollar. (Think Citibank stock for $1 4/2009) In any case, the legality has to change first.
The phrase is "bald-faced lie". Not "bold". Other than that, points for using hyphens right.
Chuckles, You make up too much stuff. You have lost most of your credibility. You need to cite sources. If you are expressing your opinion, say it's your opinion and don't try to pass it as fact. I will say you don't engage in name calling, bulling and some of the tactics others on this site use. Cite your sources so we all will have the benefit of what you have found. This is my opinion. Good Luck
The economy in the past forty years has been going in the wrong direction with competing special interests. It's now become the war of all against all. It's not sustainable. We don't need "stuff" and technological miracles, we need a happy life, with food, medical care, education, housing, a simple but decent standard of living, with good human relationships. The current economy is trying to dupe us into craving things that make our lives less happy and less secure. When corporations first came into existence, they could LOSE THEIR CHARTER if what they were doing was not deemed to be in the public interest. We not only need to get rid of Citizens United, we need to yank corporate charters of companies that hire outside our country and pollute our land.
terryj730, I have no problem with government trying to coordinate education with employment. That's exactly what I would do if I were the secretary of education. I've talked about it before. It would help people get better jobs, find what they want to do for a living sooner, and let businesses do their jobs better.
At least The Hunger Games and the similar Japanese movie shows the dystopia of pitting 24 teens against each other in a fight to the death, with a veneer of glamour for sponsors mentioned but unseen in the first movie.
I wonder why no one ever responds to my comments about empirical data.
Drive the debt to zero and destroy the economy; just ask Andrew Jackson.
Make the deficit small and wound the economy; just look at the Dow after Bill drove the deficit to zero. Also, you could ask Ravi Batra for more actual examples.
Also, the debt is not $18 trillion. It is around 100%'
Japan debt has been running around 100% for a long time. Economists use Japan as a example of how a 100% debt hurts the economy. It is hard to find an economist talking about Japan becoming the wealthiest nation in the world in 2008. Sounds like the optimal economy to me.
if only every person that sees "Hunger Games" or watches "American Idol" could read this edition of Thom's blog, then the world would be good.
Another option: Yes, and I had a good breakfast.
Sometimes these polls are too silly.
Roland
It’s too bad that lotsa folks can’t make the jump toward savvying the Bernie-ism that “DEMOCRATIC Socialism” is a GRAND way to fit into America’s better values. … I spent many decades frustrated in efforts to teach Middle-America college studes about this distinction from “Communism”.
Many Republicans are such economic amateurs that they don't even comprehend it all. All they know are the tag lines and bumper sticker quotes that they remember from the Reagan era.
Right, Willie. Bill Clinton rode on the same Republican band wagon and said nothing. But I remember those like Ross Parrot, who were saying exactly what needed to be said but were ignored by much of the Democratic party.
It's what psychopaths do. And is this business model not psychopathic by design?
It bears repeating....study after study shows that after $75,000 per year, people's day to day happiness no longer improves. So let's see, if McGuire only really needs $75,000 per year out of his 1.7 billion in stock options..... he should donate the remainder to the families who lost loved ones because his company was allowed to discrimininate against people with preexisting conditions, and then he needs to beg for their forgiveness.
Both are right answers here,yes elections should be publicly funded, and Kudos to bernie fo rtrying to introduce a bill to do it,of course the republicans will try to kill it I am sure, they want to keep the money coming from the people who bought them.
Never mind, gotta research that further..
Tom makes a great point.
Rather than ranting against each ugly corporate behavior, which are mostly legal, aim at changing the rules under which they operate.
However, the struggle may take decades as corporate wealth will actively fight every proposed change.
In the meantime suggest looking into the [worker run] business model.
Professor Wolf, a well respected economist, makes a strong case for them and points out their real world successes.
ct
Just a few years ago, right-wing pundits were getting away with the WHOPPING BIG BOLD-FACED LIE that "governments don't create jobs." My rebuttal to that argument was that President Reagan used deficit spending to "balloon our military industrial complex" which created A LOT of jobs (and got us out of President Carter's recession). But, not surprisingly, Presdeint Reagan doubled our so-called "naitonal debt" in the process. The fact that right-wing pundits are still portraying Reagan as a "small government hero" is another example of a right-wing WHOPPING BIG BOLD-FACE LIE!
"So while Reagan and W were exploding our debt, there wasn't a peep from the right or in the media." The left had to see what was going on. How come no peeps from them? They are as much to blame for saying nothing.
Imagine a world where you had to be an active employee of 40hts a week to legally hold stock.