disaster capitalism economics Uncategorized US economy
November 7, 2008

The High Cost of Defense

This article shows the return to a warrior economy. During the Clinton years, the US government was almost able to pay off its bills because this administration had reduced defense spending.  Not a lot, but enough. At the dawn of the Bush age, we saw an iunprecedented increase in ‘defense’ spending that has nearly bankrupt the US economy. With any luck, Obama will curb the […]

Politics the future
November 6, 2008

Government 2.0

Welcome to Gov 2.0. Barack Obama has released his site, change.gov . I was a little overwhelmed late Tuesday night when things were finalized, but I’m really touched now that Obama has really gone overboard with making the web a central place to discuss American … everything. I am impressed.  Scratch everything I said about change being just pennies for Main Street. For Canada:  read […]

corruption Politics
November 6, 2008

A Chilling Reminder about Electronic Voting

We all had some pretty nasty fears heading into the election thinking things like:  "Would the GOP be stupid enough to rig it despite Obama’s massive lead?" or "would it just be the ‘swing states’ where problems would arise?" Thankfully, none of that bullshit happened (again).  If it did, I’m sure the million or so in Chicago would have fanned out across the States and […]