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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.

 

How Wealthy are the Forbes 400 – Let’s Try Some “Arithmetic” …

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Andy Hailey

Robert Reich made the following statement last June, ” … the richest 400 Americans {own} as much as the bottom 150 million put together.” Let me try to put this in perspective with a little “arithmetic.” Imagine 400 small towns … Continue reading →

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2012 Election – Are We Going to Return to a National Legalized Gozzle-up Ponzi Scheme?

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Andy Hailey

(The following is a reposting of an entry from August of 2010 with minor updates.) This posting was inspired by an article at Rational Revolution. It takes another look at the disproportionate shift in income to the mega and ultra … Continue reading →

  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/09/17/856711/ten-inequality-charts-occupy/" title="Romney, Ryan and the Devil's Budget: Will America Keep Its Soul?" target="_blank">Occupy Wall Street One Year Later: Ten Key Charts About Inequality</a>, <a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11872-henry-a-giroux-why-dont-americans-care-about-democracy-at-home" title="The richest 400 Americans owning as much as the bottom 150 million put together" target="_blank">Why Don't Americans Care About Democracy at Home?</a>
  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.offthechartsblog.org/understanding-the-federal-tax-debate/" title="A compilation of key CBPP analyses, blog posts, and graphics that provide context for the debate around federal taxes" target="_blank">Understanding the Federal Tax Debate</a>
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Authoritarian Plan for a Koch Brothers’ America – Update to The Powell Plan

Posted on August 11, 2012 by Andy Hailey

Just over a year ago, I wrote a post about The Powell Memo. This memo has been referred to by others like Henry Giroux and Richard Wolff. This memo, by Lewis F. Powell and dated August 23, 1971, was a … Continue reading →

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The Four Fundamentalisms of America’s Authoritarian State – Threats to Our Democracy

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Andy Hailey

The excerpts below are from a recent article by Henry Giroux, author of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, who discusses the major fundamentalisms of our growing authoritarian state. But first, my two cents: There is … Continue reading →

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We Need More Citizenship Dues, a Reversal of Citizens United, and Democracy in the Workplace

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Andy Hailey

Real wage growth, related to worker productivity gains, have been diverted to corporations, their boards of directors, and the rest of the ONE%, via stock dividends, for over three decades. Just look at what happened:         Not … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnRWTzvHlzk&feature=related" target="_blank" title="This is a must-see lecture about the realities of socio-economics as pertains to the American dynamic.">Capitalism Hits the Fan</a>
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Occupy America – We’re Not Taking It Anymore!

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Andy Hailey

The top ONE% have had their way for three decades. They created the Great Recession and still got richer. They’ve received excessive tax breaks for 30 years and thus have not been repaying what they have taken from the rest … Continue reading →

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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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Hundreds of Millions of Consumers Create Jobs – Not Millions in Tax Breaks for the Mega and Ultra Rich

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Andy Hailey

Conservatives without conscience (CWC) are imagining that the mega and ultra rich will create jobs if they are certain they can keep their excessive tax breaks. The only thing certain about job creation is – it’s not happening. First of … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.cbpp.org/files/2-28-09tax.pdf" target="_blank" title="Restoring the top two tax rates as proposed would affect fewer than 1.9 percent offilers with any small-business income in 2009">VERY FEW SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS WOULD FACE TAX INCREASES UNDER PRESIDENT’S BUDGET</a>, <a href="http://www.epi.org/economic_snapshots/entry/webfeatures_snapshots_20081022/" target="_blank" title="Not only are many of these stimulus options more effective, but they also have the added benefit of assisting those hardest hit by the downturn">Stimulating the economy - Maximum economic bang for the buck</a>
  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/22-statistics-that-prove-the-middle-class-is-being-systematically-wiped-out-of-existence-in-america-2010-7" target="_blank" title="United States had the largest and most prosperous middle class in the history of the world, but now that is changing at a blinding pace.">22 Statistics That Prove The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out</a>, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/facts-about-inequality-in-america-2011-11?slop=1#slideshow-starthttp://www.businessinsider.com/facts-about-inequality-in-america-2011-11?slop=1#slideshow-start" target="_blank" title="our average wages are still falling behind inflation, and social mobility is at an all-time low"> 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America</a>
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