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SEEING THE FOREST
If the minimum wages had kept pace with the gains in the economy it would be $24 or so per hour now, which is around $96K per year for a couple. What this means is that if labor’s share of the economy had stayed the same the minimum lifestyle equivalent would be what a $96Klifestyle today is.
ABOUT SEEING THE FOREST Note - every time you come back there is a different picture in the masthead. Seeing the Forest's first post was on July 16, 2002. Seeing the Forest was a credentialed weblog attending the 2004 and 2008 Democratic National Conventions (didn't want to go to the 2012 or 2016; 2020 on TV was more INNOCENCE | SEEING THE FOREST The Innocence Project and the A.C.L.U. have pushed for additional DNA testing at previous times, including the eve of Mr. Lee’s execution. The request was denied. A federal judge rejected Mr. Lee’s request for a stay of the execution, saying that he had “simply delayed too long,” according to a complaint filed by Ms. Young. MARCH | 2021 | SEEING THE FOREST The #FightFor15 Minimum Wage WAS The Compromise. #FightFor24! Posted on March 2, 2021 by Dave Johnson. The minimum wage should be $24 if it had kept up with the gains in the economy. Instead all those gains went to a top few. CEPR: This is What Minimum Wage Would Be If It Kept Pace with Productivity. IS BIDEN ANOTHER CARTER? The Carter admin was a short interim between bad and much worse, and enabled the much worse to get into power. I am fearing Biden is failing to see the urgency of the moment, thereby enabling the very worst. Previously I was surprised and enthusiastic about how the Biden admin started out. Big pr TRUMP | SEEING THE FOREST Trump is now exonerated for every crime or future crime and will be beyond reach. The right-wing drumbeat to leave Trump alone will now become merciless. Dems will now be cast as sore-losers who engaged in a plot to to smear a good, Godley man and his family for politicalgain.
YOU’RE DEAD
You’re down, you’re down, you’re down. Youre down and outta this world. Don’t ever talk with your eyes. Be sure that you compromise. You’re dead, you’re dead, you’re dead. You’re dead and outta this world. Hear the unloved weeping like rain. Guard your sleep from the sound of their pain. MAKE THESE DONUTS WITH EXTRA GREASE. THIS BATCH IS FOR THE Does anyone remember a tune from the early 80's that was a lot of guitars strumming a monotonous tonal thing for a long time, and then, just once, lyrics, shouted, "Make these donuts with extra grease. This batch is for the chief of police!" and then guitars again for a longtime?
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SCOTT RITTER? In January 2003 there was a leak of a story about a 2001 misdemeanor arrest for attempting (via the internet) to meet a minor for sexual purposes. The legal case was dropped and the records sealed — but this was enough to permanently discredit Ritter in the eyes of the media. Since then he’s been almost invisible: Ritter wasdisappeared.
DID PAUL GALANTI SELL HIS MEDALS? This piece originally appeared on The Patriot Project. Paul Galanti has earned the nation’s respect. He graduated the U.S. Naval Academy in 1962 and entered Naval flight training, where he became an instructor. In 1965 he was assigned to the USS Hancock, a carrier off Vietnam, and flew 97 combat missions before being shot down on June17, 1966.
SEEING THE FOREST
If the minimum wages had kept pace with the gains in the economy it would be $24 or so per hour now, which is around $96K per year for a couple. What this means is that if labor’s share of the economy had stayed the same the minimum lifestyle equivalent would be what a $96Klifestyle today is.
ABOUT SEEING THE FOREST Note - every time you come back there is a different picture in the masthead. Seeing the Forest's first post was on July 16, 2002. Seeing the Forest was a credentialed weblog attending the 2004 and 2008 Democratic National Conventions (didn't want to go to the 2012 or 2016; 2020 on TV was more INNOCENCE | SEEING THE FOREST The Innocence Project and the A.C.L.U. have pushed for additional DNA testing at previous times, including the eve of Mr. Lee’s execution. The request was denied. A federal judge rejected Mr. Lee’s request for a stay of the execution, saying that he had “simply delayed too long,” according to a complaint filed by Ms. Young. MARCH | 2021 | SEEING THE FOREST The #FightFor15 Minimum Wage WAS The Compromise. #FightFor24! Posted on March 2, 2021 by Dave Johnson. The minimum wage should be $24 if it had kept up with the gains in the economy. Instead all those gains went to a top few. CEPR: This is What Minimum Wage Would Be If It Kept Pace with Productivity. IS BIDEN ANOTHER CARTER? The Carter admin was a short interim between bad and much worse, and enabled the much worse to get into power. I am fearing Biden is failing to see the urgency of the moment, thereby enabling the very worst. Previously I was surprised and enthusiastic about how the Biden admin started out. Big pr TRUMP | SEEING THE FOREST Trump is now exonerated for every crime or future crime and will be beyond reach. The right-wing drumbeat to leave Trump alone will now become merciless. Dems will now be cast as sore-losers who engaged in a plot to to smear a good, Godley man and his family for politicalgain.
YOU’RE DEAD
You’re down, you’re down, you’re down. Youre down and outta this world. Don’t ever talk with your eyes. Be sure that you compromise. You’re dead, you’re dead, you’re dead. You’re dead and outta this world. Hear the unloved weeping like rain. Guard your sleep from the sound of their pain. MAKE THESE DONUTS WITH EXTRA GREASE. THIS BATCH IS FOR THE Does anyone remember a tune from the early 80's that was a lot of guitars strumming a monotonous tonal thing for a long time, and then, just once, lyrics, shouted, "Make these donuts with extra grease. This batch is for the chief of police!" and then guitars again for a longtime?
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SCOTT RITTER? In January 2003 there was a leak of a story about a 2001 misdemeanor arrest for attempting (via the internet) to meet a minor for sexual purposes. The legal case was dropped and the records sealed — but this was enough to permanently discredit Ritter in the eyes of the media. Since then he’s been almost invisible: Ritter wasdisappeared.
DID PAUL GALANTI SELL HIS MEDALS? This piece originally appeared on The Patriot Project. Paul Galanti has earned the nation’s respect. He graduated the U.S. Naval Academy in 1962 and entered Naval flight training, where he became an instructor. In 1965 he was assigned to the USS Hancock, a carrier off Vietnam, and flew 97 combat missions before being shot down on June17, 1966.
DECEMBER | 2020 | SEEING THE FOREST In today’s news, Biden promises not to use the power he has to make people’s lives better, and boost the economy. “it’s arguable that the president may have the executive power to forgive up to $50,000 in student debt,” Biden said. “Well, I think that’s pretty questionable. MARCH | 2021 | SEEING THE FOREST The #FightFor15 Minimum Wage WAS The Compromise. #FightFor24! Posted on March 2, 2021 by Dave Johnson. The minimum wage should be $24 if it had kept up with the gains in the economy. Instead all those gains went to a top few. CEPR: This is What Minimum Wage Would Be If It Kept Pace with Productivity.RIGHT-WING TAKEOVER
The right-wing drumbeat to leave Trump alone will now become merciless. Dems will now be cast as sore-losers who engaged in a plot to to smear a good, Godley man and his family for political gain. Anyone questioning Trump’s divine right to rule will be marginalized, ostracized, called you name it. DECEMBER | 2006 | SEEING THE FOREST Posted on December 31, 2006 by Dave Johnson. From In Hussein’s Last Minutes, Jeers and a Cry for Calm, Hussein said, “Ya Allah,” preparing himself for the platform he stood on to open up. Suddenly, witnesses recalled, the room erupted in Shiite religious chants as the Shiite Muslims in the audience seized the moment they had long sought. SEPTEMBER | 2002 | SEEING THE FOREST Bush, Water and Fish. Posted on September 28, 2002 by Dave Johnson. Counterspin Central writes about Bush and the Klamath River water controversy. “It pitted a small klatch of farmers against, supposedly, “government regulators.”. I was working in Portland, FEBRUARY | 2010 | SEEING THE FOREST Dems Adjourn Senate, Letting Unemployment Expire. Posted on February 27, 2010 by Dave Johnson. Senate adjourns without extending unemployment, COBRA benefits, This is horrifying. 1.2 million people are about to lose their unemployment benefits because of Senate rules. People who lose their unemployment benefits are not going to think“oh
JANUARY | 2008 | SEEING THE FOREST This post originally appeared at Speak Out California. Whatever happened to the concept of “the public interest?” What about “the common good?” In 1961 John F. Kennedy said in his inaugural speech, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”This statement inspired an entire generation to dedicate themselves to public service or other pursuits JANUARY | 2004 | SEEING THE FOREST Posted on January 30, 2004 by John Emerson. Despite my lifelong interest in slimy creatures, I don’t normally do Ann Coulter. However, a line I saw in Diana Moon’s fisking of Coulter caught my eye. Coulter writes: “”Kerry’s life experience consists of living off other men’s money by marrying their wives anddaughters”.
NOVEMBER | 2007 | SEEING THE FOREST Posted on November 28, 2007 by Dave Johnson. Existing-home sales fall 1.2% to 4.97 million pace in Oct – MarketWatch, Sales of existing homes fell further in October even as more homes came on the market, driving the supply of homes to the highest level in 22 years, the National Association of Realtors reported Wednesday. Sales dropped1.2%
AUGUST | 2008 | SEEING THE FOREST Here is a slideshow of my photos from the 2008 Democratic Convention. I will organize and post videos as soon as I can. The button in thelower right of
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“A song by Anne Feeney dedicated to all activists who have been arrested while they were fighting for justice, and especially to: the Haymarket Martyrs, Dr. King, George Carlin, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Carlos from Genoa, all who have been arrested in the Battle of Seattle, Cindy Sheehan, the Belgrade 6, all who have been arrested in the Greek riotsand many others.”
ABOUT SEEING THE FOREST Note - every time you come back there is a different picture in the masthead. Seeing the Forest's first post was on July 16, 2002. Seeing the Forest was a credentialed weblog attending the 2004 and 2008 Democratic National Conventions (didn't want to go to the 2012 or 2016; 2020 on TV was more INNOCENCE | SEEING THE FOREST Arkansas really wanted someone dead, their supply of death drugs was running out. I was hiking in Muir Woods this week, ran into a guy with an Innocence Project t-shirt. They do great, important work. Send them money here. Then today I read a story about Ledell Lee and how theInnocence Projec
TRUMP | SEEING THE FOREST The “lockdown” that started in March was intended to “flatten the curve” so hospitals didn’t get overwhelmed. This would “buy time” for the federal government to get containment measures in place – testing, tracing and isolation – so we could reopen theeconomy.
MARCH | 2021 | SEEING THE FOREST The minimum wage should be $24 if it had kept up with the gains in the economy. Instead all those gains went to a top few. CEPR: This is What Minimum Wage Would Be If It Kept Pace with Productivity While the national minimum wage did rise roughly in step with productivity growth from its inception in 1938 until 1968, in the more than five decades since then, it has not even kept pace with MAKE THESE DONUTS WITH EXTRA GREASE. THIS BATCH IS FOR THE Does anyone remember a tune from the early 80's that was a lot of guitars strumming a monotonous tonal thing for a long time, and then, just once, lyrics, shouted, "Make these donuts with extra grease. This batch is for the chief of police!" and then guitars again for a longtime?
DID PAUL GALANTI SELL HIS MEDALS? This piece originally appeared on The Patriot Project. Paul Galanti has earned the nation’s respect. He graduated the U.S. Naval Academy in 1962 and entered Naval flight training, where he became an instructor. In 1965 he was assigned to the USS Hancock, a carrier off Vietnam, and flew 97 combat missions before being shot down on June 17, 1966. He was captured and kept as a POW for WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SCOTT RITTER? Right now one of the big Rove Administration talking points is that "Everyone thought Saddam had WMD's, not just Bush". This nicely supplements the main point dutifully being trotted around: "This was an intelligence failure, and Bush is going to get to the bottom of it". However, before the war thYOU’RE DEAD
Don’t sing if you want to live long They have no use for your song You’re dead, you’re dead, you’re dead You’re dead and outtathis world
TODAY’S HOUSING BUBBLE COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BUBBLE POST In the years leading up to the 2008 crash I was posting a series called "Today's Housing Bubble Post." (Scroll down, it starts in March, 2005.) Quick summary: Wall Street was bundling mortgages into "bonds" with a good interest rate. The money was made on selling these bonds, called CollateralizeSEEING THE FOREST
“A song by Anne Feeney dedicated to all activists who have been arrested while they were fighting for justice, and especially to: the Haymarket Martyrs, Dr. King, George Carlin, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Carlos from Genoa, all who have been arrested in the Battle of Seattle, Cindy Sheehan, the Belgrade 6, all who have been arrested in the Greek riotsand many others.”
ABOUT SEEING THE FOREST Note - every time you come back there is a different picture in the masthead. Seeing the Forest's first post was on July 16, 2002. Seeing the Forest was a credentialed weblog attending the 2004 and 2008 Democratic National Conventions (didn't want to go to the 2012 or 2016; 2020 on TV was more INNOCENCE | SEEING THE FOREST Arkansas really wanted someone dead, their supply of death drugs was running out. I was hiking in Muir Woods this week, ran into a guy with an Innocence Project t-shirt. They do great, important work. Send them money here. Then today I read a story about Ledell Lee and how theInnocence Projec
TRUMP | SEEING THE FOREST The “lockdown” that started in March was intended to “flatten the curve” so hospitals didn’t get overwhelmed. This would “buy time” for the federal government to get containment measures in place – testing, tracing and isolation – so we could reopen theeconomy.
MARCH | 2021 | SEEING THE FOREST The minimum wage should be $24 if it had kept up with the gains in the economy. Instead all those gains went to a top few. CEPR: This is What Minimum Wage Would Be If It Kept Pace with Productivity While the national minimum wage did rise roughly in step with productivity growth from its inception in 1938 until 1968, in the more than five decades since then, it has not even kept pace with MAKE THESE DONUTS WITH EXTRA GREASE. THIS BATCH IS FOR THE Does anyone remember a tune from the early 80's that was a lot of guitars strumming a monotonous tonal thing for a long time, and then, just once, lyrics, shouted, "Make these donuts with extra grease. This batch is for the chief of police!" and then guitars again for a longtime?
DID PAUL GALANTI SELL HIS MEDALS? This piece originally appeared on The Patriot Project. Paul Galanti has earned the nation’s respect. He graduated the U.S. Naval Academy in 1962 and entered Naval flight training, where he became an instructor. In 1965 he was assigned to the USS Hancock, a carrier off Vietnam, and flew 97 combat missions before being shot down on June 17, 1966. He was captured and kept as a POW for WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SCOTT RITTER? Right now one of the big Rove Administration talking points is that "Everyone thought Saddam had WMD's, not just Bush". This nicely supplements the main point dutifully being trotted around: "This was an intelligence failure, and Bush is going to get to the bottom of it". However, before the war thYOU’RE DEAD
Don’t sing if you want to live long They have no use for your song You’re dead, you’re dead, you’re dead You’re dead and outtathis world
TODAY’S HOUSING BUBBLE COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BUBBLE POST In the years leading up to the 2008 crash I was posting a series called "Today's Housing Bubble Post." (Scroll down, it starts in March, 2005.) Quick summary: Wall Street was bundling mortgages into "bonds" with a good interest rate. The money was made on selling these bonds, called Collateralize TRUMP | SEEING THE FOREST The “lockdown” that started in March was intended to “flatten the curve” so hospitals didn’t get overwhelmed. This would “buy time” for the federal government to get containment measures in place – testing, tracing and isolation – so we could reopen theeconomy.
ELECTIONS | SEEING THE FOREST The “lockdown” that started in March was intended to “flatten the curve” so hospitals didn’t get overwhelmed. This would “buy time” for the federal government to get containment measures in place – testing, tracing and isolation – so we could reopen theeconomy.
FEBRUARY | 2021 | SEEING THE FOREST Impeachment Day 1. This has been a painful day for me. First of all, watching that video and reliving Jan 6 was hard. It was bad enough that day watching from here; I can only imagine how it must feel tohave been there.
HOW DO YOU ARGUE WITH THIS? I mean it as a question. How do you argue with this? From a trumper I know: Your friends seem to have all of this “information” at their fingertips, don't they. So what! What is that information but leftist tropes designed to influence the masses and to gain power. They seizethe territory
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Don’t sing if you want to live long They have no use for your song You’re dead, you’re dead, you’re dead You’re dead and outtathis world
SEPTEMBER | 2002 | SEEING THE FOREST The corporate pension problem that I’ve been writing about is starting to reach the mainstream press. Today’s San Jose Mercury News has a story about the problem.. What’s going on is that companies are underfunding their pension plans, and as FEBRUARY | 2003 | SEEING THE FOREST Bush’s M.O. is to promise the public what polls show the public wants, and then go ahead with whatever his agenda is, usually the opposite of what Bush promised.It is a pattern of “say one thing and do another”, using the words to cover up the actions. JANUARY | 2004 | SEEING THE FOREST The Teenager just linked to a NYT piece by David Brooks explaining that voters are silly to vote on the basis of “electability”, because if they all do that, then voter A will vote for a candidate because he thinks that the candidate is electable, thus making the candidate look stronger and causing voter B to vote for him for the same reason, and so on — with positive feedback loops FEBRUARY | 2010 | SEEING THE FOREST This post originally appeared at Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture.I am a Fellow with CAF. A month ago while covering the arrest of James O’Keefe after his attempt to tamper with the phones at Senator Mary Landrieu’s office the New York Times repeated conservative misinformation that smeared ACORN, and is now refusing to retract their “reporting.” SEPTEMBER | 2003 | SEEING THE FOREST So it’s going to be another cover-up. White House Rejects Independent Counsel for Leak: “The White House on Monday rejected Democratic demands that an independent counsel be appointed to find out who leaked secret information apparently aimed at discrediting a vocal critic of prewar intelligence on Iraq.”SEEING THE FOREST
If the minimum wages had kept pace with the gains in the economy it would be $24 or so per hour now, which is around $96K per year for a couple. What this means is that if labor’s share of the economy had stayed the same the minimum lifestyle equivalent would be what a $96Klifestyle today is.
ABOUT SEEING THE FOREST Note - every time you come back there is a different picture in the masthead. Seeing the Forest's first post was on July 16, 2002. Seeing the Forest was a credentialed weblog attending the 2004 and 2008 Democratic National Conventions (didn't want to go to the 2012 or 2016; 2020 on TV was more INNOCENCE | SEEING THE FOREST The Innocence Project and the A.C.L.U. have pushed for additional DNA testing at previous times, including the eve of Mr. Lee’s execution. The request was denied. A federal judge rejected Mr. Lee’s request for a stay of the execution, saying that he had “simply delayed too long,” according to a complaint filed by Ms. Young.RIGHT-WING TAKEOVER
The right-wing drumbeat to leave Trump alone will now become merciless. Dems will now be cast as sore-losers who engaged in a plot to to smear a good, Godley man and his family for political gain. Anyone questioning Trump’s divine right to rule will be marginalized, ostracized, called you name it. MAKE THESE DONUTS WITH EXTRA GREASE. THIS BATCH IS FOR THE Make these donuts with extra grease. This batch is for the chief of police. Posted on October 6, 2003 by Dave Johnson. Does anyone remember a tune from the early 80’s that was a lot of guitars strumming a monotonous tonal thing for a long time, and then, just once, lyrics, shouted, “Make these donuts with extra grease. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SCOTT RITTER? In January 2003 there was a leak of a story about a 2001 misdemeanor arrest for attempting (via the internet) to meet a minor for sexual purposes. The legal case was dropped and the records sealed — but this was enough to permanently discredit Ritter in the eyes of the media. Since then he’s been almost invisible: Ritter wasdisappeared.
DID PAUL GALANTI SELL HIS MEDALS? This piece originally appeared on The Patriot Project. Paul Galanti has earned the nation’s respect. He graduated the U.S. Naval Academy in 1962 and entered Naval flight training, where he became an instructor. In 1965 he was assigned to the USS Hancock, a carrier off Vietnam, and flew 97 combat missions before being shot down on June17, 1966.
ENRON TAPES
For the past three months, I've been working more or less full time as a research assistant for an expert witness contracted by Snohomish County P.U.D. No. 1 to testify on their behalf before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in a dispute between them and Enron. The details of the case are av JULY | 2002 | SEEING THE FOREST Posted on July 30, 2002 by Dave Johnson. Well Worth Reading. Dick Cheney’s Brilliant Career – From the Toronto Star. “There was nothing illegal about the decision by Cheney and four other Halliburton insiders to dump their shares in the company in August, 2000, about two months before Halliburton stunned investors with newsthat its
SEPTEMBER | 2003 | SEEING THE FOREST Party Over Country. Posted on September 28, 2003 by Dave Johnson. There have been some who doubted that the Bush administration operates to benefit The Party rather than the country. The latest news in the scandal over the “outing” of a covert CIA agent will show them they have been wrong about that. This story, Bush Administration IsFocus
SEEING THE FOREST
If the minimum wages had kept pace with the gains in the economy it would be $24 or so per hour now, which is around $96K per year for a couple. What this means is that if labor’s share of the economy had stayed the same the minimum lifestyle equivalent would be what a $96Klifestyle today is.
ABOUT SEEING THE FOREST Note - every time you come back there is a different picture in the masthead. Seeing the Forest's first post was on July 16, 2002. Seeing the Forest was a credentialed weblog attending the 2004 and 2008 Democratic National Conventions (didn't want to go to the 2012 or 2016; 2020 on TV was more INNOCENCE | SEEING THE FOREST The Innocence Project and the A.C.L.U. have pushed for additional DNA testing at previous times, including the eve of Mr. Lee’s execution. The request was denied. A federal judge rejected Mr. Lee’s request for a stay of the execution, saying that he had “simply delayed too long,” according to a complaint filed by Ms. Young.RIGHT-WING TAKEOVER
The right-wing drumbeat to leave Trump alone will now become merciless. Dems will now be cast as sore-losers who engaged in a plot to to smear a good, Godley man and his family for political gain. Anyone questioning Trump’s divine right to rule will be marginalized, ostracized, called you name it. MAKE THESE DONUTS WITH EXTRA GREASE. THIS BATCH IS FOR THE Make these donuts with extra grease. This batch is for the chief of police. Posted on October 6, 2003 by Dave Johnson. Does anyone remember a tune from the early 80’s that was a lot of guitars strumming a monotonous tonal thing for a long time, and then, just once, lyrics, shouted, “Make these donuts with extra grease. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SCOTT RITTER? In January 2003 there was a leak of a story about a 2001 misdemeanor arrest for attempting (via the internet) to meet a minor for sexual purposes. The legal case was dropped and the records sealed — but this was enough to permanently discredit Ritter in the eyes of the media. Since then he’s been almost invisible: Ritter wasdisappeared.
DID PAUL GALANTI SELL HIS MEDALS? This piece originally appeared on The Patriot Project. Paul Galanti has earned the nation’s respect. He graduated the U.S. Naval Academy in 1962 and entered Naval flight training, where he became an instructor. In 1965 he was assigned to the USS Hancock, a carrier off Vietnam, and flew 97 combat missions before being shot down on June17, 1966.
ENRON TAPES
For the past three months, I've been working more or less full time as a research assistant for an expert witness contracted by Snohomish County P.U.D. No. 1 to testify on their behalf before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in a dispute between them and Enron. The details of the case are av JULY | 2002 | SEEING THE FOREST Posted on July 30, 2002 by Dave Johnson. Well Worth Reading. Dick Cheney’s Brilliant Career – From the Toronto Star. “There was nothing illegal about the decision by Cheney and four other Halliburton insiders to dump their shares in the company in August, 2000, about two months before Halliburton stunned investors with newsthat its
SEPTEMBER | 2003 | SEEING THE FOREST Party Over Country. Posted on September 28, 2003 by Dave Johnson. There have been some who doubted that the Bush administration operates to benefit The Party rather than the country. The latest news in the scandal over the “outing” of a covert CIA agent will show them they have been wrong about that. This story, Bush Administration IsFocus
ABOUT SEEING THE FOREST Note - every time you come back there is a different picture in the masthead. Seeing the Forest's first post was on July 16, 2002. Seeing the Forest was a credentialed weblog attending the 2004 and 2008 Democratic National Conventions (didn't want to go to the 2012 or 2016; 2020 on TV was more THE RIGHT | SEEING THE FOREST The right-wing drumbeat to leave Trump alone will now become merciless. Dems will now be cast as sore-losers who engaged in a plot to to smear a good, Godley man and his family for political gain. Anyone questioning Trump’s divine right to rule will be marginalized, ostracized, called you name it. APRIL | 2020 | SEEING THE FOREST A plastic flag, with gum on the back fell out on the floor. Well, I picked it up and I ran outside, slapped it on my window shield. And if I could see old Betsy Ross I’d tell her how good I feel. But your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore. They’re already overcrowded from your dirty little war.THE CARBON CLOCK
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TAKE WHAT HAPPENED VERY, VERY SERIOUSLY Posted on November 25, 2020by Dave Johnson
_This post originally appeared at Imagine Democracy._
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People don’t want to say that Republicans attempted a “coup” but they certainly attempted to overturn the clear results of a democratic election. They tried to end our democracy, right in front of our eyes.
The election was almost “close enough to overturn.” The Democrat received (the counting is not finished) over 6 million more votes but it was “close.” This is because our 18th-century electoral college system, designed to keep the “slave states” happy, does not belong in the 21st century. If Republicans had blocked a few more people who couldn’t get birth certificates, etc. from voting… If Republicans had been able to close a few more polling places… If they had taken away a few more ballot drop-boxes… If Republican had scared just a few more people… If Republicans had told just a few more lies… If the USPS had delayed a few more ballots… If just a bit fewer Democrats had voted… …THEY VERY WELL MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT. Take what happened very, very seriously. Because they _tried_. Right in front of our eyes.
And if we don’t take steps to do something about this, next time they will do … just that bit more.SHARE THIS:
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RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES Posted on July 21, 2020by Dave Johnson
Storm troopers in the cities? A Trumpian takeover of democracy? The question isn’t if this is what the Trumpers are doing, it’swill they succeed.
A lot of people are in the “it can’t happen here” camp on this. But it is happening, we’re watching it. Trump says he issending these –
what should we call them – to all the “Democrat” cities. Calling them Little Green Men is good, because that is the model he is following. Trump is following the Putin 21st-century stealth takeover model.
Will Trump also follow the Putin election model? The one where Putin always wins “elections” even when he is unpopular?Trump said this
, and
it is worth remembering that he did: > “You know, the left plays a tougher game, it’s very funny. I > actually think that the people on the right are tougher, but they > don’t play it tougher. Okay? I can tell you I have the support of > the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers > for Trump — I have the tough people, but they don’t play it > tough — until they go to a certain point, and then it would be > very bad, very bad. But the left plays it cuter and tougher.” (“Bikers for Trump”? So maybe call these forces invading our cities “Night Wolves?)
There really is no question this is what he is doing. He told us, and we are seeing it happening. (Do we take him seriously or literally?)
The question is, will it work? It seems clownish, he is clearly not all there. The Trumper crowd are so incompetent that it is hard to take them seriously. But make no mistake it IS happening right before our eyes. He says it out loud, and then he does it, and then people ask if it is happening? But don’t worry the Democrats are not happy and might do something.
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TRADE AND JOBS AND A BETTER LIFE Posted on July 16, 2020by
Dave Johnson
Breitbart used some of my stuff about trade in 2016, quoting it out of context, and got it wrong. Trumpers think that China and other trade partners “outnegotiated” the US. But they didn’t. The trade deals were exactly what the corporate-controlled US negotiatorswanted.
But it wasn’t the bad trade deals themselves that hurt us so much as the way they were used by American businesses to hurt us. Here is what I mean. “Trade” is when places that can grow bananas exchange them for things that come from places that can grow corn, etc. But we call it “trade” when we close a factory here and open it in China, making the same things to sell in the same stores, because they get paid less there. The thing is, _that can be a good thing_ for all of us _IF_ it is done in a way that benefits all of us. And it can be. If you take the resulting gains (the difference between what people here were paid vs what they’re paid there) and use those gains to give everyone here better jobs or a better life, then we all benefit. If you invest that money in better infrastructure here, a more efficient economy, etc, then we are all climbing a ladder. And also the Chinese (or other trade partners) benefit from getting the jobs. Then over time they can do the same thing to climb the same ladder. That’s a win-win. But instead of doing it that way, what happened was a few already-wealthy people just pocketed those gains instead of sharing them by. They didn’t invest in better jobs, or in better infrastructure or education, etc. They just pocketed it. Even worse, they used the lower-paid jobs there as leverage to force people here to accept lower wage jobs, “or else your job goes, too.” They intentionally created unemployment. Unions were busted. How did this happen? You’d think in a democracy the government would work to ensure that We the People would benefit from deals our government made. Our government should have made sure the trade deals were used to help us. But it did the opposite. This happened because our government was “captured.” Instead of doing things for all of us the government started only doing things that benefited the financial types _at the expense of the rest of us_. This problem was always around. But the real change happened starting in the 1970s, and the effect hit us in the 1980 election. “Free trade” and “tax cuts for the rich” and “cutting government” (which means cutting spending on infrastructure and education etc, as well as cutting the regulatory protections that kept big business from controlling everything) and the rest happened, and we are reaping the whirlwind since. Trade can be used for good or bad. It isn’t “trade” that’s theproblem.
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MMT EXPLAINS WHAT GOVERNMENTS CAN DO. IT IS NOT A PROPOSAL. Posted on July 16, 2020by Dave Johnson
_This post originally appeared at We CAN Have Nice Things ._ At _Business Insider_, Jim Edwards and Theron Mohamed do a good job explaining MMT in, “MMT: Here’s a plain-English guide to ‘Modern Monetary Theory’ and why it’s interesting.”
They begin with these bullet points: > * MMT is a big departure from conventional economic theory. It > proposes governments that control their own currency can spend > freely, as they can always create more money to pay off debts in > their own currency. > * The theory suggests government spending can grow the economy to > its full capacity, enrich the private sector, eliminate > unemployment, and finance major programs such as universal > healthcare, free college tuition, and green energy. > * If the spending generates a government deficit, this isn’t a > problem either. The government’s deficit is by definition the > private sector’s surplus. > * Increased government spending will not generate inflation as > long as there is unused economic capacity or unemployed labour, MMT > proposes. It is only when an economy hits physical or natural > constraints on its productivity — such as full employment — that > inflation happens because that is when supply fails to meet demand, > jacking up prices. > * MMT proponents argue governments can control inflation by > spending less or withdrawing money from the economy through taxes. > * Needless to say, traditional economists have some issues with> all this.
Just ONE quibble with that, where they write, “It proposes governments that control their own currency can spend freely.” They should have written It EXPLAINS, not that it “proposes.” Bigdifference.
MMT EXPLAINS that governments that control their own currency can do alot of things.
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Posted on July 11, 2020by Dave Johnson
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Posted on July 11, 2020 byDave Johnson
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THE LOCKDOWN
Posted on July 2, 2020 byDave Johnson
The “lockdown” that started in March was intended to “flatten the curve” so hospitals didn’t get overwhelmed. This would “buy time” for the federal government to get containment measures in place – testing, tracing and isolation – so we could reopen the economy. The “stimulus” was to help businesses and people getthrough that time.
But the federal government didn’t get containment measures in place. The terrible history of what happened instead will be remembered. And now the virus is spreading out of control, the stimulus is running out and tens of thousands of us are dying. No one knows where this will go. It is just a horrifying situation. Elections have consequences.SHARE THIS:
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FLAG OF TREASON
Posted on June 1, 2020by Dave Johnson
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YOU’RE DEAD
Posted on May 5, 2020 byDave Johnson
_Hear the unloved weeping like rain Guard your sleep from the sound of their pain_ 1966, Norma Tanega – You’re Dead Don’t sing if you want to live long They have no use for your song You’re dead, you’re dead, you’re dead You’re dead and outta this world You’ll never get a second chance Plan all your moves in advance Stay dead, stay dead, stay dead Stay dead and outta this world Run fast don’t stand in the sun There’s too much work to be done You’re down, you’re down, you’re down Youre down and outta this world Don’t ever talk with your eyes Be sure that you compromise You’re dead, you’re dead, you’re dead You’re dead and outta this world Hear the unloved weeping like rain Guard your sleep from the sound of their pain Long gone, long gone, long gone Long gone and outta this…SHARE THIS:
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YOUR FLAG DECAL WON’T GET YOU INTO HEAVEN ANYMORE Posted on April 11, 2020by Dave Johnson
RIP John Prine
While digesting Reader’s Digest in the back of a dirty book store A plastic flag, with gum on the back fell out on the floor Well, I picked it up and I ran outside, slapped it on my window shield And if I could see old Betsy Ross I’d tell her how good I feel But your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore They’re already overcrowded from your dirty little war Now Jesus don’t like killin’, no matter what the reason’s for And your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore Well, I went to the bank this morning and the cashier he said to me “If you join the Christmas club we’ll give you ten of them flagsfor free”
Well, I didn’t mess around a bit, I took him up on what he said And I stuck them stickers all over my car and one on my wife’sforehead
But your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore They’re already overcrowded from your dirty little war Now Jesus don’t like killin’, no matter what the reason’s for And your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore Well, I got my window shield so filled with flags I couldn’t see So, I ran the car upside a curb and right into a tree By the time they got a doctor down I was already dead And I’ll never understand why the man standing in the pearly gatessaid
“But your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore We’re already overcrowded from your dirty little war” “Now Jesus don’t like killin’, no matter what the reason’s for And your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore”SHARE THIS:
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