No one likes talking about the corruption in OUR system, yet it is present and it is a festering problem that threatens the social fabric we all depend on. “Elections boil down to conflicts within the business community.” ( T. Ferguson) When you add together the Reagan deregulations, the
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Views from the Beltline: The U.S. jerks capitalism’s leash
The United States is the world’s leading free market nation and it has always seemed to me that they take its basic principles very seriously. While greatly encouraging capitalism, they have understood that it isn’t the free market. Indeed, the two can be incompatible. Capitalism by its very nature ultimately
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Joe Biden—a Teddy or an FDR?
Many progressives are hoping for great things from Joe Biden. The United States faces huge problems aside from the pandemic and its economic fallout. There is an opportunity here for a bold and progressive president to make his mark and do great good. This brings an inevitable comparison to the
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Come on Baby, Do the Locomotion
Capable of doing zero-to-sixty in less than ten seconds, the Flannigan Repto-Buggy was a big seller right after President Rutherford B. Hayes started building the Great Chicken Highway. Thousands of tender birds were released on the roads every day, giving … Continue reading →
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