Friday, April 12, 2013

What causes rising inequality?

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Rising Inequality: Transitory or Permanent? "... For male labor earnings, we find that the entire increase in the cross-sectional inequa...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

The time has come to stop subsidizing casinos and start collecting revenue.

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The Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party is going to be raising taxes left and right to raise money to finance a gaggle of boon-doggles i...
Saturday, April 6, 2013

A snow-job.

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I just got back from the Annual Meeting of the Roseau Electric Co-operative up here in northern Minnesota. What a fiasco. Nothing but a sno...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Alan Maki, Warroad, Minn. letters: U.S. needs a Full Employment Act

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http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/259722/ Published in the Grand Forks Herald. Published March 25, 2013, 05:15 AM ...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Marx’s Revenge: How Class Struggle Is Shaping the World

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"...With the global economy in a protracted crisis, and workers around the world burdened by joblessness, debt and stagnant incomes, ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Forest Lake, Minnesota charging parents $2,500.00 a year to send children to Kindergarten.

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Obama is talking about a pre-school program while parents in Forest Lake, Minnesota are forced to pay $2,500.00 a year to send their ...

Cyprus election results.

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Parties Votes % +/– Seats +/– Democratic Rally ( Conservative-Christian) 138,682 34.28% +3.76% 20 +2 Progressive Party of Working People ...
Monday, March 25, 2013

The reactionary nature of Keynesian economics.

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I had a lengthy discussion with a very liberal Minnesota State Senator this morning about my stating that there is nothing progressive ab...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

The Sequester Hits the Reservation by cutting funding to the already severely underfunded Indian Health Service

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Always money for wars; but, never enough money for people... While the New York Times blames the Republicans for the austerity driven se...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Repeal "At-will hiring; At-will firing."

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I hope this article gets a lot of attention and creates a lot of discussion with the intent to build a real grassroots and rank-and-file mov...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Two parties, Democrats and Republicans; same racist agenda.

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Notice: This is not a Republican initiated piece of legislation; this comes from the Minnesota Democrats with a super majority. Anyone not...
Monday, March 18, 2013

Democratic super majorities taking a stand; Where?

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My response to another article in In These Times suggesting Democratic super majorities are the way forward: Link: http://inthesetimes.c...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

I walked out the door to take Fred for our morning walk and looked back over my shoulder...

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

The "housing question" and "unemployment" continue to dog the capitalist economy over one-hundred and fifty years after Karl Marx said capitalists couldn't solve these basic and fundamental problems.

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Something to think about: A new study has revealed that a minimum waged worker would have to work 89 hours a week when only a few oth...