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Or Why Depressions Happen During Times of Changes in The Mechanisms Used to Transfer Wealth

Distribution not creation of wealth makes the greatest economic impact. No matter how much you grow the wealth of a nation unless it is distributed widely it does not make the economy stronger. If wealth grows only in the hands of a few wealthy families the economy is stagnant. It is only when economic growth is widely distributed through work and investment that new wealth makes its greatest impact on a society.

Or How the Politics of Governors Will Destroy Republican Chances in 2010

“We don't want no new filthy stinking taxes sullying our pristine reputations?” “We are so absolute about maintaining the smallest level of taxation on the wealthy in the world that we have lost all political sense?” Or maybe just, “We think most of you are just as mean spirited as we are and that benefits us politically, too bad if you're broke.”

Or How You Can Spin Out While Trying to Turn the Corner

Lying, without qualms about any repercussions, is a real art form today. Of course we call it spin but my mother and her whole generation were not so easy to fool. They knew a lie when they heard one. They heard, “Prosperity is just around the corner,” from Herbert Hoover, the George W Bush of their time. Now, according to some Nouveau Right economists, Hoover was a sadly misunderstood genius.

Or How the Right Have Finally Found Their Principles

Peel back the layers of the onion and when you get to the heart of Republican Principles, a word and phrase we have heard ad nauseum, they are soft and squishy. While peeling an onion that had sat in the drawer too long that analogy attacked me and held me down until I agreed to put it on paper. Now that poor pathetic rotten onion is being blamed in my analogy; blamed for all of the hate and bitterness, calumny and meanness of spirit the voices of the right are heaping on the rest of us.

Or Does What Goes Down Always Go Up Again?

It is not only likely that when we make predictions we are wrong more often than we are right, it is probable. I like probability. Probability equations are fun. They tell you nothing much except what the laws of physics appear to be before you understand quantum theory. Quantum physics tells us that we make our own future. That’s right, you heard it here, we make our own future.