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I could be Bernie Sanders older brother by similarity. I was born in Manhattan, 1940, he, about a year later, in Brooklyn. I too am a white male American. A retired college professor of philosophy. We both were born of Jewish parents. I was in Harlem CORE, He in Chicago CORE. We both went to the University of Chicago; me 58 - 62, he 60 - 64 (I think.) And yet, I don't recall meeting him! U. of Chicago had plenty of progressive activists despite being a bastion of Milton Friedman. He went into politics in Vermont in '68 (?) and I settled that year into a college professorship in northwestern Pennsylvania.
I've been a long-time minor activist in the civil rights, anti-war, pro feminism movements and taught critical thinking and social philosophy. I've been a unionist, on the Board of Directors of a food co-op, an ACLU chapter president, a CASA, and an elected Green Party Borough Councilman in my small hometown. I'm happily married, for over 50 years, to a woman significantly responsible for my modest success in life. We have two great kids and one grandchild, for whom we hope there is a decent future! Recently I've been pushing Modern Monetary Theory.
Politically in 60 years I've been everything from a Libertarian in extreme youth, through socialist but now at last I just call myself a Utilitarian and Pragmatist. It avoids useless rhetorical arguments.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 18, 2013 Peterson, et. al.: Pay Up or Shut Up!
The debt fixers have had the chance for 51 years to pay down any share of the debt directly to the Treasury. In all 51 years only $85 million has been contributed. Where are the big contributions by billionaires and millionaires who benefited from infrastructure and protection in wealth-making from all these expenditures?
SHARE Saturday, February 2, 2013 Dear Charitable Billionaires:
An Open Letter to Charitable Billionaires: Educate our Politicians and Media about creating Greenbacks (government money created without debt)and using them for stimulus.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 29, 2012 Uncle Sam and Brer Rufus
A way to attack the conservative's argument that the size of the National Debt should require austerity cuts in Social Security, etc.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, September 3, 2012 USA, Inc.? Voter, Forbid!
A polite argument is made to conservative voters, to compare the goals and plans of Romney and Ryan to the First Principles of our country as constituted (expressed in the Preamble to the Constitution.) R & R's goals may be OK for a private profit making business, but don't comport with the goals of a national government "for the People." Also that they expose all non rich people to vastly greater risk over a long lifetime.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, May 11, 2012 Unite for Transitional Goals: Conservative Progressivism
It is proposed that activists of left and right "extremes" can and should work together more on educating voters on just two, limited, transitional goals rather than on Presidential campaign.
SHARE Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Will Bigotry Sabotage Republicans in the Election of 2012?
The election of 2012 will be the most religion imbued one in recent history. The nature of religion is defined and some history of sectarian conflict is brought to bear to consider whether sectarianism is likely to harm Republican election efforts.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 24, 2012 The Biggest Outrage: Bank "Persons" Preferred Over American Citizens
From Unequal Protection to Scandalously Preferential Treatment. Biggest behind - the -scenes rescue of "too big to fail" banks, rescued by Federal Reserve with $16.1 TRILLION in low interest loans.
(9 comments) SHARE Friday, February 17, 2012 Shared Economic Theology Causes Stagnation, Suffering
Federal Reserve gave vastly greater aid to corporate "persons" than losses to human persons. ($16 trillion vs. less than $1 trillion.)Both parties share an economic dogma that leaves government and business stalemated over who should provide the jobs. Vast new government job-creating stimulus needed. See "19 Million Jobs for U.S. workers" online.
SHARE Monday, March 7, 2011 Beck's BS Book "Broke"
Beck's BS Book "Broke," A Partisan Polemical Refudiatin' Review
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 24, 2011 Questioning Fiscal Conservatives Talking Points -I
Letter-to-Editor brief (250 word) replies to fiscal conservative (fiscons) economic propaganda talking points. Available for readers to use in replying to fiscons over - simplifications and Big Lie Exaggerations in local newspapers.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, April 12, 2010 American Ideals and Full Employment
This is a hopefully useful "deduction," from ideals in our Declaration and Constitution, of the need for shared work programs as a principal basis of a guaranteed annual security income.
SHARE Sunday, January 3, 2010 Doggerel Chants for a New Decade
Some chants for demonstrations and hopefully just a little fun reading. Also a book recommendation.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, March 23, 2009 Stimulate Without Debt, Bankrupt the Banksters!
How to stimulate the economy without encumbering taxpayer debt. Bank credit creation, monetizing the national debt, "credit," money, greenbacks, inflation, over productivity, capacity utilzation, unemployment, redistribution, 40/30 plan, ecological economics, sustainable living wages.
SHARE Thursday, December 11, 2008 Mobilizing on Bailouts,and Stamocap
An article characterizing bailouts in terms of class war, state monopoly capitalism and suggesting a mobilization target for progressives at this time.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 1, 2008 Untying the Gordian Knot
How One part of the Financial Tangle Might be Untied