Daily Music SelectionWritten by Carl Gibson for Reader Support News If an immortal billionaire sociopath took an interest in politics, what sort of candidates or policies would they support? If there was such a person, their bottomless funds would draw the interest of mainstream national candidates, very likely to the detriment of the rest of us. If the immortal sociopath could donate vastly more money to his candidate’s election than the other 99% of us, candidates would logically advocate for policies similar to what the big donor wanted, even if that meant repealing child labor laws, banking regulations, allowing big banks to take more American homes, destroying the environment, or raising taxes on the 99% to cut taxes for the 1%. Sadly, this has already happened. Thanks to the SCOTUS’ Citizens United vs. FEC ruling, multinational corporations can contribute unlimited funds to their candidate of choice. The 2010 decision essentially stated that corporations are people and money is speech, so a corporation donating unlimited funds to a campaign is, according to the John Roberts Supreme Court, a person exercising their right to free speech, despite that “person” lacking internal organs or a pulse. Today’s Republican candidates for president have made no…
“Let’s all sing…” As sung by the ReThug crooner himself… Herman Cain is the name and my pizza was bad, topped or and plain Den the Kochs decided to fund my campaign but I might go back to pizza again Louisville 1990s national Restaurant Association kept my family alive Together me n Ginger into bed fell It’s a time I remember, oh so well (Oh all) the nights Ginger I did pound! Wid text messages a ringin Yeah, dem nights Ginger and I got down! But now dem b*&^hes are singin! They’re goin, “Na, na, na, nanana, na, na, na na… nanananana…”
It’s seems that the United States Postal Service is looking for Ken in his home town. It seems that a package that he has been waiting for has arrived and his ‘critter’ is getting lonely without him. Don’t worry, it won’t suffocate, but it may tend to get agitated if left alone too long.
Written by Mark Ames Another Monday, another “deficit crisis” panic. If you haven’t got the feeling yet that you’re being played like a sucker over this alleged “deficit crisis,” then let me help you cross that cognitive bridge to dissonance. It comes in the figure of the recently-deceased William Niskanen, the embodiment of how Reaganomics and the Koch brothers’ libertarian movement were joined at the hip. Niskanen was an advisor to Ronald Reagan throughout the 1970s; a board director for the Koch-founded Reason Foundation; a member and chairman of Reagan’s Council on Economic Advisers from 1981-85; and he moved directly from Reagan’s side back to the Koch brothers’ side, as chairman of the libertarian Cato Institute from 1985 until 2008. This is a brief story about how the 1% transformed this country into a failing oligarchy, and their useful tools, starting with A-list libertarian economist William Niskanen, Chicago School disciple of Milton Friedman, advocate of the rancid “public choice theory.” First, let’s go back to December, 1981, and news is leaking out that Reagan’s supply-side tax cuts for the rich, combined with huge increases in defense spending, caused an explosion in the deficit to unimaginable levels, from Carter’s projected deficit…
