Privateering

Replacing representive government with expensive irresponsible corporate governance.

American Socialism – Equally Empowering and Protecting All US Citizens

(A cycle of building, destroying, and now renewing/expanding) Even before FDR's socially responsible New Deal and laws passed since, corporations…

5 years ago

Privatizing Publicly Funded Resources Abuses Citizens – It Puts Profit Before People

Putting profit before people has led to decades of poisoning our air, our water and our soil. Some of this…

6 years ago

Why Privatize Social Security? More Wealth Transfer for the 1%

Right-wing authoritarian Republican politicians, like Paul Ryan, believe that the individual is solely responsible for their success or failure. Their…

7 years ago

Excessive Corporate Intrusion Is a Major Factor in Maximizing Inequality

When FDR and LBJ passed laws which maximized equality by providing protections such as Social Security, the right to unionize,…

10 years ago

Right-wing Authoritarian Neoliberal Ideology Has Prevented Universal Health Care for Americans

Economic neoliberalism, or free market fundamentalism, has been at work for decades in America transferring more and more wealth from…

10 years ago

Maximizing Profit Morfs The Fourth Estate Into Stooge for Hire.

For some time, I have been promoting the use of profit-free media for news. There is a long list of…

10 years ago

Corporate Governance Will Transfer More Wealth If Social Security Is Privatized

(This blog posting comes from portions of Who Stole the American Dream by Hedrick Smith.) The history of the transition…

11 years ago

Corporate Governance Erodes Democracy As Education is Privatized

Corporate governance destroys democracy by replacing accountability to citizens with accountability to a few major stockholders and boards of directors…

11 years ago

The Price of Our Freedoms – Our Children’s Lives?, Our Representative Government?

Based on the recent writings of Professor George Lakoff and the Newtown statements from our President, I posted the following…

11 years ago

Disaster Relief Is Immoral and Requires Privatization – Who Believes This and Why?

Here is a portion of the transcript from the June 13, 2011, Republican presidential primary debate where Romney is asked…

12 years ago

Destroying America’s Soul – The Devil’s Budget

In his latest article, George Lakoff discusses how The Devils Budget proposed by the opponents to President Obama will eventually…

12 years ago

Redistribution of America’s Income – More for The Mega Rich or the Common Wealth?

In summary, America's common wealth has been hit by a triple whammy: tax cuts for the rich far larger that…

14 years ago

The Destruction of American Democracy – “Privateering” Is Hard at Work

Privateering is destroying America's democracy by eliminating our governments moral mission to protect and empower all of its citizens. Privateering…

15 years ago