Archive for the ‘The People's Business’ Category
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The U.S. Economy: The Real Issue – Global Finance and Global “free-trade”
Despite huge efforts and spending by government, we still have a “jobless recovery”. Before more money is printed and deficits further increased, we need to realize where the jobs have gone.
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What Do They Want? Why is the Electorate So Unhappy?
The American public is in a state of incipient revolt against its own leadership. This opposition will keep growing until the leaders recognize the problems the nation faces, and admit that these can only be solved with the full support and participation of the citizenry.
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The Coming Congressional Gridlock
The Congress emerging from the November election will be sharply divided and marked by a diversity of constituent mandates. Under those conditions only “one-liner bills” will be feasible – simple, clear and sharply focused measures capable of effectively dealing with increasingly critical issues.
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Is Globalization a Mistake?
The global recession could be simply a major cyclical downturn, but there are indications it is more: a structural breakdown, brought about by the globalization of finance and industry. If this is so, globalization could be the biggest economic blunder in history.
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Spilled Oil Policy
While the oil spill in the Gulf is a major accident and requires both compensation and review of drilling regulations, the adversarial tone of the administration towards BP and the oil industry is ill-considered, as is the drilling moratorium. America needs oil, and reducing supply is a bad policy at this time.
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America’s Shrinking Independence: Globalism – Reducing America’s Freedom To Act
Americans have always taken national independence for granted, and history has been kind to them in that regard. Now both independence and national sovereignty are being eroded by globalization, which replaces them with global co-dependency. This puts before us a choice which we must face.
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The Lessons of 1854, and How They Apply Today
The foundation in 1854 of the Republican Party as a citizens’ initiative shows that a gridlocked political system can be regenerated. The qualities and imagination that served so well at that time can be called on today to resolve our own difficulties.
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Politics and Ideology: Why America Had No Guillotine
Politics can be driven by pragmatism or by ideology. The first leads to compromise and agreement, the second to radicalization. The U.S. is currently faced with a choice: return to its pragmatic tradition or embrace the ideological war between Right and Left.
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Complexes Can Be Dangerous, But Also Mortal
President Eisenhower warned us about the Military-Industrial complex. Though we never really developed one, the Soviets did, and it did them in. Instead we grew our own Financial-Political complex and now it is doing us in.
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The Economy on the Edge
The state of the economy will determine the outcome of the November election. And the state of the economy will depend on whether the financial bailout was primarily for the benefit of the banks, with the overall economy at best a secondary consideration.
