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PART III: The Costs of Creative Destruction: Wendell Berry vs. Gene Sperlin

PART III: The Search for Community in the 1930’s. more »

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Freedom Road: A view on socialism

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Does anyone know what socialism is? Does anyone know what capitalism is? Well as far as I can see it means what it means to the people telling you what it means :-) Into the mix comes this web site - the Freedom Road Socialist Organisation - and this quotation which made me smile and then think.

"Today the rich and powerful, the tiny handful who squat atop our social pyramid like huge jeweled toads, try to claim the banner of freedom for themselves. They use this mighty word to sell everything from convertibles to panty liners. And when they do, they reveal what they think freedom means. For them, the rulers, freedom means the freedom to structure everything in society to serve their own interests. Meanwhile, for the great working class majority, the freedom preached by the rich means only the freedom to choose between a rock and a hard place, between selling our labor to them to enrich them further and starving to death."

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Tax Cuts Are Theft

Conservatives like to say that taxes are theft. In fact it is tax cuts that are theft because they break a long-standing contract.

The American Social Contract: We, the People built our democracy and the empowerment and protections it bestows. We built the infrastructure, schools and all of the public structures, laws, courts, monetary system, etc. that enable enterprise to prosper.

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Greece-ing The Skids Against Public Pensions

Say what you will about leaders in the American Right, you have to admire their focus. They sit around with loaded shotguns waiting for a target of opportunity to appear. And, unlike Dick Cheney, they rarely miss.

The latest clay pigeon to cross their field of vision is the financial crisis in Greece. The target, however, is not Greece but public sector pensions in the U.S. 

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Social Security Matters: Say No to The Fast-Track Commission

This video by OWL: The Voice of Midlife and Older Women raises the alarm about the creation of a fast-track commission that would allow the White House and Congress to cut Social Security and other benefits without going through the normal democratic process of debate and compromise. more »