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GOP PLANS TO GUT SOCIAL SECURITY

by Dale Coberly GOP PLANS TO GUT SOCIAL SECURITY The  Republicans have opened a new assault on Social Security.  At present all I know about it is what I read  in a Talking Points Memo by Tierney Sneed   Key House GOPer Introduces Bill With Major Cuts To Social Security . The trouble with Sneed’s article […]

Paolo Gentiloni

Foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni has been asked to attempt to form a government. He is a rather bland establishment figure who has two interesting histories. First, back in the day, Italy (then a monarchy) didn’t get along with the pope (they fought a war with a famous battle at the pious gate (no ti sto […]

Comic Book Hayek:The Planners Promise Utopia

In his neo-Confederate “Mein Kampf,” Whither Solid South, Charles Wallace Collins quoted a full paragraph from Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom regarding the emptying out of the meaning of words. My instinct would be not to condemn Hayek for the politics of those who quote him. Even the Devil quotes Shakespeare. But after taking another look at the Look magazine comic book edition […]

From Full Employment To “Inclusive Growth”

This is the third of three posts on full employment. The unifying thread is that “full employment” has always been a political and not an economic problem. The first two posts were The Electoral College, White Supremacy and Full Employment as “Reign of Terror” and Full Employment and the Myth of the General Strike. Employing Sorel’s distinction […]