The influence of money creates our economic problems

By Jim Hoover If you think that our most influential institutions have not been compromised by the power elite’s money, you only need to look at the Standard and Poor (S&P) credit-rating agency that just downgraded the US’s credit rating from AAA to AA+. You would have to be…

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Default Avoided, Guns Kept!

By Jim Hoover OK, we probably won’t default. Is it time for rejoicing? Not so much. We supposedly are close to a debt ceiling/budget-cut agreement. Republicans cocked the default gun and held it to Obama’s head. He blinked… again. Don’t worry. The agreement assures that he will blink again….and…

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Fat, Dumb and Happy! Has Much changed since this was written?

by Jim Hoover Conservative America would like to keep the bulk of Americans fat, dumb and happy. That is the outgrowth of the conservative building of a proto-fascist country, dominated by large corporations. Activity in Republican-controlled states and the House of Representatives, show the ideas of right-wing corporations like…

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Ignorance and the Debt Ceiling

by Jim Hoover The ignorance of too many radical Republicans in the at-one-time esteemed House of Representatives is positively staggering. A growing number of Republicans believe that defaulting on our debt is no big deal. Plausible explanations for this folly include the deliberate polarization of the electorate, the run-amuck…

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Republicans: Burn Baby, Burn!

http://www.examiner.com/this-day-history-in-national/cuyahoga-river-on-fire By Jim Hoover As if the Republicans haven’t done enough already to trash the American people, indeed our country, considering attacks on women and Planned Parenthood, attacks on regulating Wall Street, cuts to spending for the vulnerable, voting to end Medicare, starving education, trying to kill voting in…

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Prepare for Global Depression?

By Jim Hoover Most Americans are totally unaware that 60 Republican members of the House of Representatives control our economic destiny, our livelihood, perhaps for years to come, after August 2nd, 2011. In essence, the Tea Party Caucus seems to control whether our country defaults on its debt or…

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