Category Archives: Income Inequality

The Black Hole Theory of the Minimum Wage

Posted on Saturday, May 18, 2013 by Guest Contributor

Physicists theorize that inside a black hole the laws of physics breakdown. When the minimum wage falls far enough below what the market would bear the laws of supply and demand breakdown. Doubling today’s federal minimum wage should lead to … Continue reading →

Posted in Income Inequality | Tagged demand, minimum wage, supply

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Headlines from “The Party of Stupid”

Posted on Wednesday, March 6, 2013 by Cindy Rose

Dear Republicans, This is what your elected officials are spending their time on: Not Understanding the Constitution… Again Just a little over a week after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit shot down Florida’s mandatory welfare drug … Continue reading →

Posted in Congress, Education, Government, Gun Control, Income Inequality, NRA, Politics, Republicans, Social Programs, State Legislation, Tea Party, The Constitution, The Poor | Tagged congress, divorce, education, gop, gun control, republicans, school vouchers, Stephen Fincher, tea party, Tedd Gassman, the poor, welfare drug testing

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Mr. Obama, Tear Down the Private Profit Prisons

Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2013 by Marc Belisle

“…men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a master, and show themselves proud and servile at the same time.” –Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America In 2007, a teenager in a depressed county of Northeastern Pennsylvania, recently bereft of … Continue reading →

Posted in ALECexposed, Arizona Shenanigans, Banks and Finance, Barack Obama, Border Security, Campaign Finance Laws, Campaigns, Capitalism, Congress, Corporate donors, Corporate Greed, Corporations, Crime & Punishment, Deregulation, Economic Justice, Economic Policy, Education, Employment, Ethics, Financial Collapse, Government, Gun Control, Human Rights, Immigration, Incarceration, Income Inequality, Justice, Labor Unions, Liberals, NRA, Politics, Poverty, Progressives, Racial Issues, September 11, State Legislation, Students, superPACs, Taxes, The Economy, The Middle-Class, The Poor, The Wealthy, Wall Street, Wisconsin Recall | Tagged barack obama, campaign finance, campaigns, CCA, citizens united, corporate greed, corrections, crime and punishment, Democrats, detention, drug policy, drugs, economics, GEO Group, healthcare, immigrants, immigration, jail, justice, law and order, laws, minorities, policy, prison, prisoner abuse, private prison industry, republicans, state legislation, students, wall street, war on drugs

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Gerrymandering, Jury-Rigging and Judicial Rewriting Are the Wave of the Future, Conservative Soldiers!

Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2013 by Marc Belisle

Greetings and salutations, fellow captains of industry and our Republican lapdogs! I’m wiring you this electronic mail-o-gram from the deck of my mega-yacht Duchess’ Bounty. What wizardry is this, you may ask, that such a feat is possible from the … Continue reading →

Posted in ALECexposed, Banks and Finance, Barack Obama, Campaign Finance Laws, Campaigns, Capitalism, Congress, Debt and Budget, Deregulation, Economic Justice, Economic Policy, Education, Election, Election Fraud, Employment, Ethics, Financial Bailouts, Financial Collapse, Government, Healthcare, Incarceration, Income Inequality, Justice, Koch Brothers, Politics, Primaries, Privatization, Racial Issues, Republican Campaign Donors, Republican Leaders, Satire, State Legislation, Stimulus, superPACs, Supreme Court, Tax Cuts, Taxes, Tea Party, The Constitution, The Economy, The Middle-Class, The Poor, The Wealthy, Wall Street | Tagged ALEC, Charles and David Koch, constitutional, Electoral College, gerrymandering, judicial challenge, satire, vote rigging, voting rights, wall street

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Obama’s Got a Brand New Bag

Posted on Monday, January 21, 2013 by Marc Belisle

“I’ve got such a bully pulpit.” –Teddy Roosevelt Inaugural addresses usually seek to inspire, rally the country together, commit us to our ideals and lay out a vision for the future. Obama’s speech today did all that, but it also … Continue reading →

Posted in Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, Income Inequality, Medicaid, Medicare, Politics, Tea Party, The Constitution, The Economy, The Media, Women, Women in Politics, Women's Rights | Tagged Affordable Care Act, barack obama, democratic party, gay rights, Hillary Clinton, immigration reform, inauguration, issues, medicaid, medicare, Obamacare, rhetoric, second inaugural address, Women's Rights

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Freedom of Speech vs. Wall Street’s Interests

Posted on Saturday, January 5, 2013 by Marc Belisle

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” –Henry David Thoreau You know that civil rights are in dire straits when Rage Against the Machine starts to seem eerily prescient. … Continue reading →

Posted in Banks and Finance, Capitalism, Corporate Greed, Corporations, Crime & Punishment, Economic Justice, Economic Policy, Financial Bailouts, Government, Housing Crisis, Income Inequality, Occupy WallStreet, Police Brutality, Politics, Privatization, The Economy, The Middle-Class, The Poor, The Wealthy, Wall Street, Wars | Tagged citizens united, corruption, crackdown, DHS, documents, FBI, First Amendment, free speech, freedom of assembly, Freedom of Information Act, greed, occupy wall street, plutocracy, police, police brutality, wall street

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Boehner Weighs the Pros and Cons(ervatives): a Fiscal Cliffhanger

Posted on Sunday, December 30, 2012 by Marc Belisle

As Congressional Republicans trickle back into Washington after a nice, long, relaxing, luxurious holiday vacation, House Speaker John Boehner sits alone in his office, waiting to hold a strategy session on the looming fiscal cliff. Making a piggy bank gallop … Continue reading →

Posted in Barack Obama, Debt and Budget, Immigration, Income Inequality, Mitt Romney, Mother Jones, Paul Ryan, Politics, Primaries, The Constitution, The Middle-Class, The Poor, The Wealthy, Wall Street | Tagged barack obama, eric cantor, fiction, fiscal cliff, gerrymandering, Hastert Rule, house, Jan Brewer, john boehner, majority of the majority, michelle bachmann, Mitch McConnell, paul ryan, ronald reagan, satire, senate, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, tea party, Thomas Jefferson

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Atlas Whined

Posted on Sunday, December 9, 2012 by Marc Belisle

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, … Continue reading →

Posted in Activists, Affordable Care Act, AFL-CIO, Banks and Finance, Barack Obama, Campaign Finance Laws, Campaigns, Capitalism, Corporate Greed, Corporations, Crime & Punishment, Debt and Budget, Deregulation, Economic Justice, Economic Policy, Government, Income Inequality, Karl Rove, Labor Unions, Labor Unions, Liberals, Move Your Money, Occupy WallStreet, Politics, Poverty, The Middle-Class, The Poor, The Wealthy | Tagged boycott, class war, Denny's, Hostess, income inequality, John Metz, John Schnatter, Karl Rove, Papa John's, romney, Sheldon Adelson, Walmart

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It’s D-Day in the Class War

Posted on Sunday, December 2, 2012 by Marc Belisle

“We cannot negotiate with those who say, ‘What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.’” –John F. Kennedy On November 6th, 60 million Americans waited in line to yank the monkey wrench from Congress. We reappointed our Democratic general … Continue reading →

Posted in Auto Industry, Banks and Finance, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Campaign Finance Laws, Campaigns, Capitalism, Congress, Corporate donors, Corporate Greed, Corporations, Debt and Budget, Democratic Leaders, Deregulation, Economic Justice, Economic Policy, Employment, Financial Bailouts, Financial Collapse, George W Bush, Housing Crisis, Income Inequality, Justice, Labor Unions, Labor Unions, Lefty Sites, Liberals, Mitt Romney, Occupy WallStreet, Outsourcing, Politics, Poverty, Primaries, Republican Propaganda Machine, Republican Scandals, Ronald Reagan, superPACs, Supreme Court, TARP, Tax Cuts, Taxes, Tea Party, The Constitution, The Economy, The Middle-Class, The Poor, The Wealthy, U.S. Treasury, Wall Street | Tagged boycott, D Day, demand economics, economic justice, economy, Franklin Roosevelt, george w bush, Hayek, Hostess, income, income inequality, Keynes, labor, Obama, occupy wall street, romney, ronald reagan, scott walker, supply-side, tax cuts, taxes, The Fiscal Cliff, the fiscal cliffs of Normandy, trickle-down, union-busting, unions, voodoo economics, Walmart

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The GOP Needs to Move Further Right and Suppress the Vote Better: A Modest Proposal

Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2012 by Marc Belisle

It would appear that many of these “voters” gathered the wrong message from our pitch. As he poured my wine, Reginald observed that Romney, old boy, convinced the commoners he’d had such an illustrious career in the private sector that … Continue reading →