Category Archives: Corporate Intrusion

Is corporate power being protected to avoid criminal prosecution? Are political campaign funds coming mostly from large corporations and very rich benefactors? Is the government awarding contracts to those corporations that helped during the campaign without using normal government contracting guidelines? Are most of the lobbyists at the seat of the government funded by the corporations and rich benefactors? Are the ears of government leaders going to the highest bidder? When will the Cabinet be expanded to include the Department of Business? Will the requirements for the Cabinet be expanded to include a masters in Business Administration? How far is too far?

Corporate intrusion is the erosion of representative governance through the massive funding from the ONE% (Citizens United) to elect their preferred representatives, vast numbers of corporate lobbyists to deliver daily corporate demands to their representatives, and predatory privatization of, among other public resources, our public education system.

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.

 

Republican Senators – Shameless, Spineless, or Without Conscience?

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Andy Hailey

RE: Most Republican Senators voted yesterday to pass the Paul Ryan Budget Plan for the wealthy. Tonight, I sent the following note to Texas Senator Cornyn, who voted for the plan: Transferring more wealth to the top 2 percent by … Continue reading →

  • Related WAWG Article: <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=5126" target="_blank" title="There are two parts to the Ryan budget plan:">Congressman Ryan’s Wealth Transfer (Budget) Plan</a>
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Congressman Ryan’s Wealth Transfer (Budget) Plan

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Andy Hailey

There are two parts to the Ryan budget plan: 1.) eliminate the costs of our safety net for those citizens not like Ryan and his fellow conservatives without conscience (CWC) and then 2.) take those savings in spending and transfer … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3452" target="_blank" title="Taken together, its proposals would produce the largest redistribution of income from the bottom to the top in modern U.S. history">Statement of Robert Greenstein, President, on Chairman Ryan’s Budget Plan</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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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 Koch Brothers, enabled by Citizens United, Want to Buy Our Government – Will You Vote to Stop This?

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Andy Hailey

As written about earlier, 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. This point is made … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.pbs.org/fmc/book.htm" target="_blank" title="Social change in the United States during the twentieth century">THE FIRST MEASURED CENTURY: An Illustrated Guide to Trends in America, 1900–2000</a>, <a href="http://www.rationalrevolution.net/articles/recession_cause.htm" target="_blank" title="A basic understanding for what caused The Great Recession.">How Reagan Sowed the Seeds of America's Demise</a>, <a href="http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/" target="_blank" title="The most comprehensive independent analysis of the U.S. labor market">The State of Working America 2008/2009</a>, <a href="http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html" target="_blank" title="Wealth is equally divergent between the bottom 99 and the top 1 percent">Wealth, Income, and Power</a>
  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3309&emailView=1" target="_blank" title="Top 1 percent held a larger share of income in 2007 than at any time since 1928">Recent Gains of Bottom 90 Percent Wiped Out</a>, <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer" target="_blank" title="The Kochs are longtime libertarians who believe in drastically lower personal and corporate taxes, minimal social services for the needy, and much less oversight of industry." >COVERT OPERATIONS</a>
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Bad Deeds for 9-16-2010

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Jim Vogas

  Republicans Have Been Lying About the Deficit – The Treasury says that the deficit for August of this year is 13% lower than that of the August of last year, and 8% lower than the first 11 months of … Continue reading →

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Tax Breaks For The Mega and Ultra Rich – Stopping Their Takeover of Our Democracy

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Andy Hailey

An article about Congress deciding its next pay raise, had this to say about the richest 235 of them: Senators had a median reportable net worth of $1.79 million in 2008, the last year such data were available, down from … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 9-13-2010

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Jim Vogas

  Republican House Leader is Big Tobacco’s and Wall Street’s Best Friend – House Democrats were preparing late last year for the first floor vote on the financial regulatory overhaul when Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio and other Republican … Continue reading →

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Choices – Pick one: Jobs or Deaths

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Andy Hailey

There’s a commercial where citizens are complaining about taxes on energy and how that will “kill jobs.” That may be true or just rhetoric. But if these taxes cause the long term reduction in pollution of our air, land and … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 8-23-2010

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Jim Vogas

  Tax Cuts for the Super Rich – Republicans and conservative Democrats have rejected every suggestion that we do more to avoid deep cuts in public services and help the ailing economy, but are eager to cut checks averaging $3 … Continue reading →

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