Testing One Two Three???

Welcome Aboard, She (4.00 / 1)

I like the way you think.

I'm kind of like you in looking for an alternative to the "conventional wisdom" in this state, which is so pervasive and turns out to be so consistently wrong.

You're right, Elizabeth Warren is a blessing in the Senate. We will need her in the fight with Third Way Dems whose compromising ways may include a deal to privatize Social Security and Medicare.

Again, welcome!

 

 

"This is not a Republican or a Democratic issue. This is about the whole system being against us." - an Occupy protester at Obama's Des Moines office.

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by: Dardango @ Mon Nov 12, 2012 at 06:36:05 AM UTC

Save the Safety Net (4.00 / 1)

We need to fight against ANY reduction in Social Security and Medicare.  Privitization is the Holy Grail of Wall Street for the billions of fees they would be able to extract from the private retirement accounts, but slashing the safety net at all would just increase the suffering of the poor and elderly.  

The other parts of the "Grand Bargain" (i.e., Great Betrayal), cutting Federal spending and/or raising taxes, would be devastating to our economy and would throw us back into a recession or even a depression.

For those of you with an interest in economics:

GDP equals Private Spending plus Net Government Spending plus Net Exports. 

Therefore, if we reduce government spending we will reduce public sector demand and if we increase taxes we will reduce private sector demand.  Since our most basic economic problem right now is a lack of sufficient aggregate demand to employ everyone who wants a job, reducing either public or private sector demand is just going to make things worse.

It is my sincere belief that everyone needs to understand the way our fiat monetary system actually works.  Most mainstream economists do not.  They are still stuck thinking as though we are still on the gold standard which was abandoned in 1933/1971.

I will be glad to expand on this and answer any questions others may have.

And...many thanks to those of you who started and run this blog.  I just found it recently and I am pleased to see such a forum for progressives in Alabama.

 

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by: zman-mobile @ Mon Nov 12, 2012 at 12:55:37 PM UTC

Welcome zman-mobile (0.00 / 0)

I'm so glad you found this blog.  We need more people who can help decipher economist-speak and help the rest of us understand what's really going on.

IMO, all this austerity crap -- which is failing big time in Europe -- is incredibly dangerous to what is left of the American middle class.

Work harder and work smarter!

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by: mooncat @ Mon Nov 19, 2012 at 14:11:09 PM UTC

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Trail of Tears? Do I Deport Myself? (4.00 / 1)

I read SaintSatinStain's remark about the days of the McGovern run for the Presidency.

Back then, my daddy, who was a life long Democrat, could not bring himself to vote for McGovern. Too liberal, too much socialistic perhaps, so after much thought, he voted for Nixon. I'll tell you, when the Watergate debacle hit the news, Daddy was heart broken. He felt morally responsible for what happened to the country and the tainted Presidency. He swore he'd never vote again for a Republican.

I'm trying to figure out this website and how I am supposed to make a new entry without hitching it to my first ONE TWO THREE? Something I'm not getting? Do I create a BLOG somewhere? I follow the links to sites re Politics In Alabama, which is most interesting to me.

BTW, I received one of those FWD thingies about Nagasaki VS Detroit. Lots of pictures showing the devastated city after the bomb fell. Question asked was what about the lifetime of radiation there and yet it was rebuilt. Shwed pictures of the city today, vibrant and very prosperous. Then it showed the state of Detroit with the vacant buildings every bit as bad as a war zone album. Then the punch line.....all this was after the government programs doled out money to folks who refused to work or take responsibility for themselves.Japan has no Social Security it says. No government programs to help non performers.....  How do you fight something like this? It makes it difficult to carry on a civilized conversation with neighbors or friends, or even family. Things are repeated so often it smacks of brainwashing, and folks don't even question the logic. When this kind of hatred brews long enough, like Louisiana dark roast coffee after 24 hours, it can end up corroding the pot. 

I am getting too old to endure many more election periods like this one. I was filled with apprehension and stress ruled my life for this entire year. And the fight isn't over even now. Will it become a second Reconstruction? That time in Alabama, after the War Between The States (proper name for the war according to my grandma), the churches were split, the young people chose spouses from only a few families who were "politically correct." My family ended up with a lot of "double first cousins" if you know what that means. My grandma grew up during Reconstruction. When I asked her about the same family names showing up on Union and Confederate rosters, she told me, "Let the dead rest in peace."  

Well, Lefties, give me a clue if I am clueless so I can write to communicate, not talk to myself. Thanks, and goodnight.

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by: She @ Mon Nov 19, 2012 at 03:05:20 AM UTC

I remember the Nixon-McGovern choice (0.00 / 0)

And, while he never said, I've always wondered if my Daddy may have voted for Nixon in '72 -- even though he was a lifelong Democrat.  But maybe not ... he didn't like Nixon one bit as I recall from the discussions in 1968.  But it's a democracy, and we get what we get and have to live with it.

How to make a new entry, start a new thread, or whatever you want to call it:  This is easy once you know the trick.  Look in the upper right corner of the page under MENU.  There should be a "New Diary" link up there right below "She's page".  Just click on that and start your new entry.  I hope you'll do it soon because I really like where you're coming from. 

The misinformation on the right is monumental and can't be called anything less than propaganda.  Did you hear last week that Roger Ailes of Fox said "We don't -- I know no one believes it -- we have no agenda."  The fact that he wasn't struck down on the spot for telling such a whopper calls the whole concept of god into question.

Work harder and work smarter!

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by: mooncat @ Mon Nov 19, 2012 at 14:08:29 PM UTC

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Yep, come (0.00 / 0)

come and correct us, school usl, and yea, yes learn from us when we're not ignorance influence, but humane, rational, and moral.

Qui bibit, dormit; qui dormit, non peccat; qui non peccat, sanctus est; ergo qui bibit sanctus est.

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by: SaintSatinStain @ Sun Nov 25, 2012 at 01:55:56 AM UTC