tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234638383123311700.post4955916055902307151..comments2023-10-31T11:27:58.514-05:00Comments on THE SATURDAY AFTERNOON POST: WE ARE FAR TOO TOP-HEAVY!Jack Jodellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02165430903903838990noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234638383123311700.post-73926686046725481182015-11-29T05:23:35.656-06:002015-11-29T05:23:35.656-06:00The general public's level of ignorance and st...The general public's level of ignorance and stupidity on these matters is appalling. You do the country a great service by educating them on the facts.Tim Fleminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09725008638928981678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234638383123311700.post-67391385323718358442014-12-31T10:08:01.846-06:002014-12-31T10:08:01.846-06:00An instructive post. People to really know who the...An instructive post. People to really know who they want to reach and why or else, they'll have no way to know what they're trying to achieve. People need to hear this and have it drilled in their brains..<br />Thanks for sharing this great article.<br />check <a rel="nofollow">canada tax consultant</a> for tax and business solutionBuunyhttp://sredrefunds.com/the-sred-program/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234638383123311700.post-14822292431227697462011-04-02T09:40:29.373-05:002011-04-02T09:40:29.373-05:00Actually, corporate corruption makes Government in...Actually, corporate corruption makes Government in eras like Eisenhower's look downright efficient and pristine in comparison. Corporations are no longer driven by the urge to produce a better service, or product-they are driven by pure greed, which is a direct result of all the breaks both Rushpubliscums and Dumbocrats have been all to anxious to hand them. There has to be a check on greed, or what we see now always happens.<br /><br />I say that a CEO not consumed with grabbing every dime he or she can get their hands on will be MORE concerned with putting out a quality product or service, since his or her pay will be just one concern among many, rather than THE concern. The system of allowing Corporate Boards to be staffed by intertwined members of different companies must also be addressed, since a Board member of Company "A" knows that the CEO of "A" will be voting on HIS package over at Company "B", where "A"'s CEO is a Board member.Jolly Rogerhttp://reconstitution.us/rcnewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234638383123311700.post-16805980360682561432011-03-22T22:27:06.934-05:002011-03-22T22:27:06.934-05:00Last Friday Google took down my blog without notic...Last Friday Google took down my blog without notice. <br /><br />Talk about a Kafkaesque experience. No warning, no explanation, no accusation even. I guess a lot of blogger world goes down because of misidentification as spammers. They also have a very Kafkaesque system of hoops and loops to jump through for a review. <br /><br />I get a sick sense of foreshadowing from this that all politically incorrect blogs and information sources may meet the same fate when net neutrality is lost and corporatist government clamps down.<br /><br />I'll take my davedubya.com elsewhere; Wordpress looks pretty good in comparison. I'm glad I saved all my posts and links.Dave Dubyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234638383123311700.post-37180407802765021982011-03-21T10:10:09.735-05:002011-03-21T10:10:09.735-05:00Great to see a whole lot more people becoming awar...Great to see a whole lot more people becoming aware of this!<br /><br />Its not a question of being Jealous of the wealthy - if they earned it, good for them. However, as money gushes up, the entire consumer base is weakened. Eventually, no workers have money to buy anything but maybe food and shelter. Economy collapses.<br /><br />I am promoting "Ethical Capitalism can Save U.S." as a solution. Based on Henry Ford, "we believe in making twenty thousand men prosperous and contented rather than following the plan of making a few slave drivers in our enterprise multi-millionaires."Bobby Kearanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15959917060694822750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234638383123311700.post-64266486023113479092011-03-18T17:20:47.758-05:002011-03-18T17:20:47.758-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jack Jodellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465017098355576489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234638383123311700.post-1380860784649049772011-03-18T09:17:21.062-05:002011-03-18T09:17:21.062-05:00S.W.,
Thank you for that excellent recommendation....S.W.,<br />Thank you for that excellent recommendation. I WILL follow up on it and even do a future post based on it! After the shenanigans the GOP has pulled for the past 30 years, they should never again be able to capture Congress OR the White House!Jack Jodellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02165430903903838990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234638383123311700.post-59069683946987072182011-03-18T02:38:37.020-05:002011-03-18T02:38:37.020-05:00Jack, I'll just hit the high spots.
This is ...Jack, I'll just hit the high spots. <br /><br />This is an excellent post. More background and incredible depth and detail are available in Kevin Phillips' book, Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich. <br /><br />I can't recommend Phillips' book highly enough. If we could get even half of U.S. voters to read it, I doubt we would have another Republican president or Congress for a generation or more.S.W. Andersonhttp://ohpblog.ohpinion.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234638383123311700.post-36604423644384689702011-03-17T21:53:44.774-05:002011-03-17T21:53:44.774-05:00Marc,
There is absolutely no forgiving right-wing ...Marc,<br />There is absolutely no forgiving right-wing ignorance. I would urge you to copy and paste this post, print it, and distribute it to every one of those unbelieving morons. <br /><br />Conservatives in the time of Columbus argued that the world was flat and that Isabella and Ferdinand were wrong to fund his voyage. Where would this world be today if THEY had been so cocksure and ignorant as their conservative advisors were?<br /><br />Rush Limbaugh and Fox "News" are doing a grave injustice to this country. They are paranoid voices of the past and present trying to prevent the inevitable future. And those who follow them are wholly unoriginal, mindless sheep! It is high time they WAKE UP to the fact that our taxes are FAR BELOW that of the rest of the world and that our rich aren't overtaxed at all, but are rather stealing from us to feather their own nest!Jack Jodellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02165430903903838990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234638383123311700.post-62700727872723743692011-03-17T20:41:42.338-05:002011-03-17T20:41:42.338-05:00Hi Jack, great and informative piece.
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>>...Hi Jack, great and informative piece.<br /><br />re:<br />>>>Americans are clueless about<br />>>>how the country's wealth is<br />>>>distributed or is as<br />>>>concentrated as it now is<br /><br />This is one of the biggest problems I have in debating right-wingers.<br /><br />Many of them insist that the rich are unfairly penalized and forced to pay too much in taxes. None of them grasp that America was a vastly more egalitarian society from the 1940s to the 1970s. <br /><br />Indeed, thanks to the likes of Rush, many wingnuts are convinced that today's America has the narrowest gap between rich and poor that it ever has had, thanks to Obama's "socialist" parties.<br /><br />When I tell them Obama is no progressive and is instead a bland corporate-friendly moderate, they always give me a blank stare.<br /><br />Great societies aren't defined by the number of super-wealthy people, but rather by how prosperous the middle class is.<br />In the U.S. these days, the middle class is pretty much extinct.<br /><br />Talk to any marketer and they'll tell you that 40 years ago, they focused their efforts on targeting the middle class. By contrast, today, marketers have what they call a "two-tiered" approach: either targeting the rich or the working class. There isn't much of an in-between any more.Marc McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17105754072842852126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234638383123311700.post-63297690417062828782011-03-17T15:30:49.279-05:002011-03-17T15:30:49.279-05:00S.W.,
Could be. Just email me at jackjod@q.com, an...S.W.,<br />Could be. Just email me at jackjod@q.com, and type CAPITAL LETTERS in the subject heading. Sorry for the hassle.Jack Jodellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02165430903903838990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234638383123311700.post-50784678167345596322011-03-17T14:59:33.189-05:002011-03-17T14:59:33.189-05:00Jack, could my comment have gone to a spam trap? T...Jack, could my comment have gone to a spam trap? There was a link to a book at Amazon in it, and depending on your settings, that might cause it to be sidelined as possible spam.S.W. Andersonhttp://ohpblog.ohpinion.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234638383123311700.post-74776615629971027352011-03-17T08:48:21.138-05:002011-03-17T08:48:21.138-05:00S.W.,
I don't know what could have happened to...S.W.,<br />I don't know what could have happened to it! Please comment again.<br />---------------<br />Dave,<br />I hear ya, brother!<br />---------------<br />That's why we have to attack them with a broad People's Party front!Jack Jodellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02165430903903838990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234638383123311700.post-63027157066701935032011-03-17T00:13:11.675-05:002011-03-17T00:13:11.675-05:00The simple fact of the matter is, a topheavy socie...The simple fact of the matter is, a topheavy society is a sh*t society. The economy doesn't work for anyone except those at the top. We passed the 13th and 14th Amendments to get rid of this kind of a structure, and the Constipatives have been trying to put it back ever since.Jolly Rogerhttp://reconstitution.us/rcnewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234638383123311700.post-88943460756991933182011-03-16T23:25:38.644-05:002011-03-16T23:25:38.644-05:00We are living in such sick and twisted times that ...We are living in such sick and twisted times that democracy is now the radical solution.Dave Dubyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234638383123311700.post-45322705327976094762011-03-16T23:23:00.746-05:002011-03-16T23:23:00.746-05:00Uh, I left a comment on this post earlier today.Uh, I left a comment on this post earlier today.S.W. Andersonhttp://ohpblog.ohpinion.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234638383123311700.post-6079957243021932362011-03-16T19:04:57.865-05:002011-03-16T19:04:57.865-05:00Tom,
That is why the next two election cycles (at ...Tom,<br />That is why the next two election cycles (at least) are so very crucial. After years of ceding ground and getting smothered by these self-centered bastards, the time has now come for the 98% who have been getting screwed to rise up, take an activist stance, and turn the tables on them before it's too late. We MUST win the White House again next year and we MUST win Congress back, too, with greatly expanded majorities! That is why it is so important for each of us to become one of the People's Party faction, ATTEND YOUR LOCAL DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS NEXT YEAR, and, in general, take an activist approach and throw these Republicans and corporate-stooge teabaggers OUT for good! Our country will be a LOT better off with a progressive agenda being practiced, much like it had in the 1960s through most of the 1970s. At the very least, the middle class will be strengthened with a resurgance in the voice of labor.Jack Jodellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02165430903903838990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234638383123311700.post-36268708111503461052011-03-16T16:07:20.400-05:002011-03-16T16:07:20.400-05:00This whole "rich getting richer" syndrom...This whole "rich getting richer" syndrome is one of those self-reinforcing vicious cycles, like a snowball rolling downhill.<br /><br />The wealthier the richest 1% gets, the more money they have for bribing the government. The larger their bribes, the more rewards they get in the form of lower taxes for millionaires, fewer regulations, etc.<br /><br />And the lower their taxes and regulations, the more money they can spend on bribing the government for even better tax breaks. And the beat goes on...Tom Harperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05610417770240609022noreply@blogger.com