Author Archives: Andy Shanks

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.

 

My Greatest Fear

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Andy Shanks

Al Qaeda: noun, from Arabic, translation: The Base. Al Qaeda is not a single organization but rather a network of militant groups with similar interests. Osama bin Laden, using what he learned from the CIA, founded The Base to organize, … Continue reading →

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A Health Care Two Parter …

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Andy Shanks

Part I: Why do they fear a public insurance plan? We keep hearing that a pubic option will be far too expensive, can’t possibly work because it’s run by the Government and that it will kill the private sector health … Continue reading →

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A Refutation of Reagan’s Supply Side Economics – What Trickle Down?

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Andy Shanks

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. From William Butler Yeats’, The Second Coming   Besides not wanting to completely … Continue reading →

  • Related WAWG Article: <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1963" target="_blank" title="I suggest we raise the 33 percent tax rate to 35, let the 35 return to 39.6 percent, and add several more brackets for those making more than $500,000">Freedom Isn’t Free – What Are We Willing to Pay For It?</a>, <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1317" target="_blank" title="First, it was easy credit cards, then zero interest car loans, and finally easy unrealistic home loans to satisfy investor greed">The “Twin Peaks” of Consumer Debt</a>
  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Great-Tax-Con-Job-by-Thom-Hartmann-090721-79.html" target="_blank" title="A very small niche of America's uber-wealthy have pulled off what may well be the biggest con job in the history of our republic">The Great Tax Con Job</a>
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CWCs Are Not About Healthcare – Their About Profit and Defeating President Obama

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Andy Shanks

Senator Jim DeMint, R SC, succinctly laid out what is important to the Republican Party on a conference call to fellow conservatives[ without conscience (CWCs)]. He said, “If we’re able to stop Obama on this (health care) it will be … Continue reading →

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Who Controls and Lies About Media Control?

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Andy Shanks

It’s on TV, it must be true . . . Ronald Reagan demolished the Fairness doctrine in 1983.  For those who don’t remember, the Fairness Doctrine was a program enforced by the FCC that ensured discussion of national policy matters … Continue reading →

  • Related WAWG Article: <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?tag=noble-lie" target="_blank" title="The Ultimate Neocon Noble Lie - The Left is The Far Right">Neocons and their Noble Lies</a>
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Just call me Comrade . . .

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Andy Shanks

IF you define socialism as any form of taking tax money from people to provide services and infrastructure, YOU really don’t understand what Socialism actually is. You are dependent on society and society takes care of many of your needs without you even thinking about it. Continue reading →

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Stop Trickling on My Boots and Telling Me It’s Raining

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Andy Shanks

“There’s class warfare, all right but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning,” Warren Buffet, CEO Berkshire Hathaway and third richest man in the United States.    In 2006 Mr. Buffet compiled a spreadsheet on … Continue reading →

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Tax cuts? We don’t need no tax cuts. We don’t have to show you no stinkin’ tax cuts.

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Andy Shanks

To the tune of Paul Simon’s One Trick Pony with sincerest apologies to Paul Simon. They’re a tax cut party Tax cuts are all that they can do They do tax cuts only Its the principal source of their revenue … Continue reading →

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I feel just like Alan Greenspan . . .

Posted on December 15, 2008 by Andy Shanks

“Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity, myself included, are in a state of shocked disbelief,” Alan Greenspan testimony to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the wake … Continue reading →

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Retraction

Posted on August 21, 2008 by Andy Shanks

I’ve said that there isn’t anything we can do to bring gasoline prices down in the near future.  I was wrong.   According to the Washington Post a few oil traders controlled 81% of the oil futures market driving prices … Continue reading →

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