Category Archives: poor

Enough Is Enough

May 8, 2012 – 1:11 pm

After a series of election Leftist parties of France, Greece, and Italy have swept austerity junkies from office. Pro-growth promises trumped hardline economics threatening the German government’s demands for budget cuts in order to repay bank loans from before the crisis. PM Merkel has called a continuation of cost-cutting, while the newly elected leader of [...]

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Us Versus Them

May 1, 2012 – 8:23 am

From Democracy or Plutocracy? A Chart Friday 28 January 2011 by: Dave Johnson | Campaign for America’s Future | Op-Ed DEMOCRACY versus PLUTOCRACY We, the People / Wealthy Few One Person One Vote / One Dollar One Vote Government / Limited Government Majority / Supermajority Information / Propaganda Taxes on the Wealthy / Tax Cuts [...]

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Delta Business Elite

March 26, 2012 – 5:12 pm

‘All the news that’s fit to print’ tops the headlines of the New York Times. This respected newspaper is considered a bastion of liberal thought by the left, right, and center of the upper-classes, for the cost of $2.50 puts the broadsheet out of the range of most Americans and a glance at the ads [...]

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Billion Euro House

March 26, 2012 – 12:47 pm

In fall of 1997 I rented a converted schoolhouse in Ballyconeelly from Lord Guinness of the Guinness Beer fortune. The monthly rent for the autumn was 600 Irish pounds or almost $1000. I was splitting the cost with my friend Ty Spaulding, but upon arriving at the desolate dwelling in the coastal bogs I discovered [...]

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Wage Slavery for the Movies

March 26, 2012 – 11:01 am

Two weeks ago a casting director asked if I wanted to work a long day as an extra. “It’s $8 an hour.” She sounded apologetic, since the last three gigs had been at AFTRA rates. “Put me down. I”m not doing anything.” Nimmt geld or take money was one of the first rules of my [...]

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