Mammon category archive
Responsible Fiscals 0
A quote from Sam:
Stupid or evil? I’m not convinced it’s mutually exclusive.
Decoding de Code 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Veronika Tait argues that “endorsing the ‘poor but happy’ trope excuses inequality.” A nugget (emphasis added):
Yet research shows that those from low-income households are less happy on average than those from higher-income households.
The Business of America Is Giving America the Business 0
My local rag comments on what happens when you run the government like a business.
The Crypto Con 0
Some of the shills have settled with the SEC.
The Privatization Scam 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini conjugates the con.
The Mythbuster and the Fee Hand of the Market 0
Robert Reich exposes the three myths that the ultra-wealthy use to justify their bazillions. The myths he lists are
- The first is trickle-down economics.
- The second myth is the “free market.”
- The third myth is that they’re superior human beings — rugged individuals who “did it on their own” and therefore deserve their billions.
His detailed debunking of the bunk awaits you at the link.
This New Gilded Age, Little Timmy Gets a Job Dept. 0
Mike and Farron point out that Little Timmy gets to go back to the assembly line, thanks to today’s Republican Party.
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing.
Sugar Bombs 0
Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss cereal offenders.
I remember when I was a young ‘un, back in the olden days, when Coco Puffs first came on the market, my brother and I talked my mother into buying a box.
We found them–er–less than desirable.
This New Gilded Age 0
Focusing on a proposed law in Iowa, labor leader Tom Conway warns of the consequences of the return of child labor. Here’s a bit (emphasis added):
In some cases, it even would permit young teens to work mining and construction jobs and let them use power-driven meat slicers and food choppers.
Just three years ago, a 16-year-old in Tennessee fell 11 stories to his death while working construction on a hotel roof. Another 16-year-old lost an arm that same year while cleaning a meat grinder at a Tennessee supermarket,
But these preventable tragedies mean nothing to Iowa legislators bent on helping greedy employers pad their bottom lines at kids’ expense.
We are a society in regression.
The New Gilded Age 0
Michael in Norfolk argues that today’s Republican Party is quite happy to see the return of–nay, to usher in–the New Gilded Age. Here’s a bit from his post (emphasis added):
I cannot find a way with which to take issue with his remarks, he said convolutedly.
