Liberals should stop praising the "free markets"
There is no term more commonly used in America than the free markets. If you watch television you will listen to pundits talk about how efficient they are. If you read a basic economics text book you...
View ArticleEnd: single district representation
In this country of ours, people of the two main parties compete for one seat in each district. What this means is that only the person with the most # of votes wins the seat. This in my opinion is...
View ArticlePut corporations to pay, instead of letting them steal our future
There has been a debate in the United States of America about our corporate tax code and how it is too high for corporations, that it causes them to shift jobs overseas and close down plants in our...
View ArticleGive Rod Blagojavich a chance of a fair trial
Why is it that we have forgotten in this country that people are innocent until proven guilty? Why is it that allegations without proof are enough to throw people out of office? Why is it that the...
View ArticleStem cell researchers ready for Obama to end ban, even when GOP trying to...
This diary is a mix of a personal experience with actual news articles from the United States about the exitement that is being generated from ending the federal ban on stem cell research.There is...
View ArticleBarack Obama: another interventionist in foreign policy
You can say all the good things about what Barack Obama has done since he became president. Many will say he is about to end the War in Iraq, that he opposed, which I applaud, his end of torture and...
View ArticleThis is how real compromise and bipartisanship looks like
Republicans are pressuring Barack Obama into compromising in the stimulus package bill by putting in it more tax breaks for businesses, and less government spending. That is just plain nonesense, it...
View ArticleRepublicans hate America.
For all of those who say we need to reach to republicans, we need to ask for their feedback, we need to listen to them, we need to appease them with more tax cuts that just arent stimulative, that just...
View ArticleTax cuts = more savings= longer recession; gov spending=more consumption=...
If the last 8 years of the Bush presidency are of any indication, tax cuts not only are not only wasteful spending, with estimates that its total cost on our economy was 2 trillion dollars, which I...
View ArticleLiberals should stop bashing Keynesian Economics and the stimulus package
If there is one thing the debate in Congress right now over the stimulus package should teach us is that Keynesian economics is not only the best economic theory, but the best solution to get out of a...
View ArticleStimulus package agreement reached (updated- with Fox News reaction)
Just now on TV, Harry Read is giving a press conference.Senator Reid praised the republicans who are supporting this compromise. They are praising bipartisanship.All the republican moderates are...
View ArticleThe victory of Chavez, the 21st century socialism wins again
Today is a good day for the new version of socialism, the 21th century socialism who is already the ideology if Bolivia and Ecuador, two countries where the abandoned poor, the workers who earned...
View ArticleBarack Obama: Broke campaign promise on Iraq
The first reason I supported President Barack Obama, in 2006 was because of his opposition to the war of Iraq before it began. He was clear about his opposition to the war not only because it...
View ArticleThe 2nd amendment is whats wrong with America
In our Constitution, there are many great things, many good things and some archaic and horrible things. Nonetheless, there is nothing more worse and or archaic as the 2nd amendment of our...
View ArticleBarack Obama is another politician in the bed of Wall Street.
After a well contested election campaign, in which now President Barack Obama defeated Senator McCain by millions of votes, we are seeing who the real Barack Obama is with respect to the policies for...
View ArticleBarack Obama: Wall Street first.
Today Barack Obama became a Bush republican with respect to Wall Street. He did what no one would have expected and took a plan straight from the Bush and Paulson fiasco and amplified it even more. He...
View ArticlePresident Obama should focus on domestic issues. International institutions...
I write this diary for one simple reason: I respect the rule of law, and expect those who violate laws to be punished. For that reason a part of me feels outraged, to the level that I have had...
View Article21st century socialism wins again ( President Correa of Ecuador re-elected.
Yesterday was an important day not only for the people of Ecuador, but most importanly for an ideology whose main goal is to give the people the direct control of their government by direct democratic...
View ArticleI do not stand with Dr. Dean and his sell out to the insurance companies
Throughout the last couple of weeks I have watched this community go from somewhat supporting a single payer system, in which the government will pay for the health care of all Americans with taxes,...
View Article10 steps used by republicans to destroy government: Puerto Rican case
For the people who do not know, in Puerto Rico, even though people vote for political parties who represent an ideological status for Puerto Rico, mainstream politicians there still consider themselves...
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