Category Archives: economy

One Of Millions

August 16, 2012 – 11:13 am

The protracted economic depression plaguing the world has led Hallmark to introduce a line of greeting cards at offering condolences to the jobless. America’s unemployment level is stagnant at 8.2%. Neither of my nephew could find a job this summer and I’m faced with the same fate this month as I return to the States […]

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Socialism Not Allowed In The USA

July 3, 2012 – 10:40 pm
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Abject Poverty

June 25, 2012 – 3:46 am

The Industrial revolution bestowed great wealth on capitalists in the United Kingdom, but the accumulation of wealth resulted in up to one third of the British labor force living in abject poverty. Enfranchised voters reacted to this gulf between rich and poor by voting in large numbers for the Labor Party in 1906 and the […]

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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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Burn Credit Card Burn

May 2, 2012 – 12:01 pm

Yesterday I watched the Occupy Wall Street protests online. The police herded the thousands of demonstrators from square to street to sidewalk until the manifestation was broken down into smaller manageable groups, but I was waiting for a spokesperson to articulate the general message of OWS. There has been none. In the 60s we protest […]

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