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.

 

The Arab Spring and America’s Winter – Where the Authoritarians Are Taking Us, If We Let Them

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Andy Hailey

In several Arab countries, citizens have been demonstrating and demanding their authoritarian governments be replaced with a democratic form of government. In America, citizens have ceded control of their democracy to a hateful minority of right-wing authoritarians. As democracy is … Continue reading →

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Where are the Authoritarians Taking America – Same Place as Texas, SC, WI?

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Andy Hailey

Will the country default by not raising the debt limit? The consensus, which is growing but does not include the political ‘adolescents’ in the Tea Party, is no, we won’t. It’s too dangerous. The real question is why are we … Continue reading →

  • Related WAWG Article: <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=4846" target="_blank" title="We survived the larger deficits of WWII just fine.">Fear Mongering Over Debt and Deficits – It’s Happened Before, Why Then, Why Now?</a>
  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.gao.gov/products/AIMD-96-130" title="Analysis of Actions During the 1995-1996 Crisis" target="_blank">1995-1996 Debt Crisis</a>, <a href="http://texaslsg.org/texasonthebrink/?page_id=55" target="_blank" title="A report from the Texas Legislative Study Group On the State of Our State">Texas On the Brink</a>
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Authoritarian Plan to End American Democracy – The Powell Memo

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Andy Hailey

While reading Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism by Henry Giroux, I learned about another element of America’s growing authoritarianism – The Powell Memo, by Lewis F. Powell on August 23, 1971. Mr. Giroux makes the … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://law.wlu.edu/deptimages/Powell%20Archives/PowellSCSFChamberofCommerce.pdf" target="_blank" title="the success of the Powell Memorandum today">Corporate Response to Powell Memo</a>, <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/news-and-blogs/campaign-blog/the-lewis-powell-memo-corporate-blueprint-to-/blog/36466/" target="_blank" title="Greenpeace has the full text of the Lewis Powell Memo and analyses of impacts">The Lewis Powell Memo - Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy</a>
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Authoritarians – The Hyper Dead, Still Alive as Avatars of Death and Cruelty?

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Andy Hailey

Listed below is a portion of the introduction for Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism by Dr. Henry A. Giroux. This book is a good update for the authoritarianism which John Dean discussed in Conservatives Without … Continue reading →

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Senator and Congressman Paul Favor Corporate Freedom of Choice Over Citizen Freedom of Choice

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Andy Hailey

Sometimes, when either Libertarian Ron or Rand Paul are questioned on particular situations that driven by their general politics beliefs, they contradict themselves. In response to questions by Chris Mathews concerning the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Ron Paul responded, … Continue reading →

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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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