BANKS DO "GOD'S WORK"

So says the chief executive of Goldman Sachs. Remember that the next time you get dinged $39 for that overdraft on your checking account.

REPUBLICIANS & THE FAR RIGHT

Paul Krugman's piece in the November 9, 2009 New York Times - very interesting read about the far right, paranoia politics and the Republician party. Some interesting observations -
- the far right leadership isn't interested in governing;
- the far right that used to be manipulated by the Republician party to help it get elected then abandoned so the party could serve the moneyed elites now effectively runs the party.
Most surprisingly - Richard Hofstadter in 1964 in an essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" foresaw much of the far right crisis currently under way.

CONSERVATIVE HYPOCRISY IS THE ONLY

PRINCIPLE OF THE REPUBLICIANS & THE RIGHT.

REPUBLIAN ADVSIOR FACES HEALTH CARE'S COSTLY BITE

THE STORY ABOUT DOUG HOLTZ-EAKIN AND HIS HEALTH CARE INSURANCE PROBLEM IS SYMPTOMATIC OF THE PROBLEMS FACING MOST AMERICANS. YET DURING THE CAMPAIGN HE PROPOSED A SOLUTION THAT IS EXACTLY THE ONE HE NOW FACES - NO INSURANCE COMPANY WANTS HIM. WELCOME TO THE WORLD MOST AMERICANS FACE. MORE IN THE WASHINGTON POST STORY. DID KARMA RUN OVER HIS DOGMA?

Republician Health Care Plan

It seems the Republician Health Care plan outlined on their web-site (there is still no actual plan) has nothing for seniors. Despite all their protests throughtout the summer concerning the need to protect seniors from the evil Democrats, seniors are left out. Maybe that's how the Republicians pplan to pay for their plan.

CORPORATISM

Both Political Parties seem to owe allegiance to the Corporation. But the Republicans - the leading Republicans have tricked many people into fearing government when it's really corporations and corporatism who rule government. Who are the corporate government rulers - LOBBYISTS. Republican values entail CORPORATE WELFARE, CORPORATE SOCIALISM, CORPORATE FASCISM.

YOU CAN'T GOVERN FROM THE CENTER