For years, “proponents of privatization have advanced the argument … that business will always perform a given task better than government, whether it’s running buses or schools, supplying healthcare or housing. The public sector is sclerotic, wasteful and undisciplined by the profit motive. The private sector is dynamic, innovative and, above all, efficient. A profit-driven […]
Are you ready to consider that capitalism is the problem?
In February, college sophomore Trevor Hill stood up during a televised town hall meeting in New York and posed a simple question to Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives. He cited a study by Harvard University showing that 51% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 no longer support […]
Efforts to save money by Dow Chemical and Shell led to poison in drinking water, lawsuits allege
For decades, Shell and Dow hid a highly potent cancer-causing chemical in two widely used pesticides, contaminating drinking water for millions of people in California and beyond, according to lawsuits detailed in a new report from Environmental Working Group. The chemical 1,2,3-trichloropropane, or TCP, was formerly an unwanted and ineffective byproduct in Dow’s Telone and […]
Quit the NRA
If you are a member of the National Rifle Association, have you seen this ad? <PLAY> Are you still a member? Why? There is no gray area on this: If you remain a member of the NRA after viewing this ad, you are supporting a call to violence by conservative white Americans against all other […]
How companies pay Amazon to kill them
It has become a truism that software is eating the world. Perhaps that now extends to Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods. This purchase is surely funded in part by the astronomical growth of Amazon Web Services, which is estimated to have made $14 billion in revenue last year — just slightly more than the purchase […]
Our outrage is merely amusing
In Hollywood thrillers, there is a turning point when the beleaguered hero stops being a victim, goes on offense and takes it to the attackers with a series of surprise moves they didn’t expect. In America, the People aren’t there yet. We’re still being being outraged by the attacks from the far-right wing that controls […]
How state lotteries charge the poor to reduce taxes for the rich
This floored me: Americans in the 43 states where lotteries are legal spent $70 billion on lotto games in 2014. Seventy billion? I thought. No, that’s impossible. That’s more than $230 for every man, woman, and child in those states—or $300 for each adult. But it’s true: According to the North American Association of State […]
A modest proposal: Healthcare opt-out
In 2015, total spending on healthcare in the United States was $3.2 trillion – $9,990 per person – representing $1 out of every $6 that anybody spent on anything. The federal government coughed up 29 percent of that amount, $2,897 per person, according to the federal government website Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. When guns-n-Bibles […]
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