Author Archives: Andy Hailey

About Andy Hailey

Vietnam Vet, UT El Paso Grad, Retired Aerospace Engineer, former union rep, 60's Republican now progressive, web admin, blogger.

Tracking the Growth of American Authoritarianism

“Can There Really Be Fascist People In A Democracy?”
Libertarians are stealthily taking over America.
Since the 1971 Powell Memo, America has moved closer and closer to Fascism.

 

Imagine – Republicans Force a ‘Strike’ and Take The Entire Federal Government With Them?

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Andy Hailey

It appears to me, that even though the conservatives without conscience (CWCs) cannot support unions, especially public ones, they do support taking union type action – acting in unison as a group, like voting to strike. One difference between Congressional … Continue reading →

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Federal Income Taxes – Is Tax Foundation Impartial?

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Andy Hailey

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, “CBO data for 2007 (the most recent year available) suggest that 80 percent of U.S. households pay federal tax at a lower rate than the Tax Foundation’s estimated “average” federal tax … Continue reading →

  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.offthechartsblog.org/top-ten-tax-charts/" target="_blank" title="provide a big-picture look at the U.S. tax system">Top Ten Tax Charts</a>
  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3946" title="Figures May Mislead Policymakers, Journalists, and the Public" target="_blank">Tax Foundation Figures Do Not Represent Typical Households’ Tax Burdens</a>, <a href="http://www.offthechartsblog.org/tax-foundation-gets-it-backwards-eitc-boosts-employment-and-work-effort/" title="EITC Boosts Employment and Work Effort" target="_blank">Tax Foundation Gets It Backwards:</a>
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Wealth Transfer – America’s Growing Plutocracy

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Andy Hailey

While reading through a 1967 college text on Today’s ISMs by William Ebenstein, I came across this statement on wealth distribution in America as of 1953: … the top 3 per cent [sic] owned 33 per cent [sic] of all … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/" target="_blank" title="The last chapter focuses on the potential for serious challenges to class and corporate dominance.">Who Rules America</a>
  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.offthechartsblog.org/top-ten-tax-charts/" target="_blank" title="provide a big-picture look at the U.S. tax system">Top Ten Tax Charts</a>
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Fear Mongering Over Debt and Deficits – It’s Happened Before, Why Then, Why Now?

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Andy Hailey

Why are we, as a nation, no longer expressing concern about the employment deficit? Because the media and the politicians are all fear mongering about deficit spending, the national debt, and terminating state employees and/or their benefits to fix their … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-republican-strategy_b_825206.html"they hope to deflect attention from the increasing share of total income and wealth going to the richest 1 percent while the jobs and wages of everyone else languises>The Republican Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/20/AR2011022002480.html" target="_blank" title="Washington is acting as if the only real problem the United States confronts is the budget deficit">The Tea Party is winning</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakoff/what-conservatives-really_b_825504.html" target="_blank" title="Conservatives believe in individual responsibility alone, not social responsibility.">What Conservatives Really Want</a>, <a href="http://www.nationofchange.org/deficit-crisis-mongers-go-deep-end-1353168534" title="The real bottom line is whether the country will allow the deficit hawks to scare us into a deal that we would never make under normal circumstances. " target="_blank">The Deficit Crisis Mongers Go Off the Deep End</a>
  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.nationofchange.org/saving-planet-or-fixing-debt-1352562807" title="Imagine Japan attacked at Pearl Harbor in December of 1941 and our political leaders responded by debating the best way to deal with the deficits projected for 1960." target="_blank">Saving the Planet or Fixing the Debt</a>, <a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12728-embrace-the-fiscal-cliff" title="... latest disinformation put out by people who agree with Grover Norquist that the real goal of politics should always and everywhere be to reduce taxes and shrink the size of government" target="_blank">Embrace the Fiscal Cliff</a>
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Social Dominance Authoritarians – Rule By Fearful Fantasies

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Andy Hailey

In 2006, John Dean wrote this about neoconservatives in his book Conservatives Without Conscience: Neoconservatives are a relatively small group of social dominance authoritarians, with significant, if not disproportionate, influence. Dean also stated that, “Neoconservatism first surfaced in the public … Continue reading →

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Violence Against Americans by Americans – Individual Action Is Only Part of the Story

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Andy Hailey

Individual actions result from the influences of many factors. This is referred to as “systemic causation.” Some factors are genetic but many are external: parents, spouses, siblings, other relatives, friends, scout leaders, religious leaders, teachers, bosses, books, movies, radio, TV, … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com/2011/01/09/learn-how-propaganda-works-the-giffords-shooting/" target="_blank" title="Pay attention to the narratives as they unfold and consider the significance of the agendas they support">Learn How Propaganda Works: The Giffords Shooting</a>, <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/politics/blog/professor-receives-death-threats-after-glenn-beck-targets-her/" target="_blank" title="“Somebody tell Frances I have 5000 roundas ready">Professor Receives Death Threats After Glenn Beck Targets Her</a>
  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turner_Diaries" target="_blank" title=" Depicts a violent revolution in the United States which leads to the overthrow of the United States federal government and to a the extermination of all Jews and non-whites.">Timothy McVeigh referenced The Turner Diaries as a source for his planning of his 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.</a>
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Progressive Facts Are Lost on CWCs, But Biconceptuals Can Understand

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Andy Hailey

Communicating a progressive worldview requires telling a story and countering the “Nobel Lies,” or beliefs, from the CWCs (conservatives without conscience) with facts. For progressives to win back the “biconceptuals,” who are typically referred to as “independents” and recently supported … Continue reading →

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The Hypothetical Left/Center/Right Scale – Has The Republican Party Become Extremist?

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Andy Hailey

In E. J. Dionne’s Where the ‘No Labels’ movement falls short, he states: The truth is that the American right is much farther from anything that can fairly be described as “the center” than is the left. [This is actually … Continue reading →

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Let The Mega and Ultra Rich Have Their Gift of Greed – They Have a New Way to Create Jobs

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Andy Hailey

Let the mega and ultra rich take their capital-gains-based, inherited-without-struggle wealth and create high-paying jobs. Here’s how. Thanks to the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the mega and ultra rich now have a new untapped investment vehicle – the government. … Continue reading →

  • Related WAWG Article: <a href="http://wp.me/pegMB-179" target="_blank" title="There is an immense divergence in income growth for most of us, the bottom 90 percent, and the income growth of the mega, top 1 percent, and ultra, top 0.1 percent, rich">The Koch Brothers, enabled by Citizens United, Want to Buy Our Government – Will You Vote to Stop This?</a>
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The Lipstick Applied by the White House is not Making this Pig Pretty

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Andy Hailey

The following are my two rants sent to the White House on their tax break stimulus package. To Anyone who cares: I’ve watched the White Board video to explain the infamous tax break agreement and I’m not convinced. Something about … Continue reading →

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