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A Response to The One Percent

Posted on November 1, 2025 by greg

According to a Congressional Budget Office report, you need at least $787,712 in income per year to make the top 1%, but this varies by where you live. As of 2023, the top 1% of American households owned 30.0% of … Continue reading →

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Consequences of the Tea Party and the Search for Truth

Posted on October 1, 2025 by greg

Big Oil and Big Tobacco partnered with the Koch brothers to take over the GOP. Charles and David Koch were key figures, using their wealth to fund anti-regulation thinktanks and organizations like Americans for Prosperity to promote the Tea Party’s … Continue reading →

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Response to the Failure of Trickle-Down Economics

Posted on June 1, 2025 by greg

Critics argue that tax cuts for the wealthy may not be reinvested in ways that benefit the broader economy, and may instead be used for other purposes. Continue reading →

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To Create Positive Change That Lasts: Reduce Alienation.

Posted on September 1, 2023 by greg

The seventeenth century was one of the most turbulent periods in English history, socially, culturally, and for the monarchy. Traditions and norms were turned upside down as the pendulum swung back and forth between periods of war and peace, austerity … Continue reading →

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A Response to the Oppression of Top-Down Systems

Posted on July 1, 2022 by greg

The Roman Empire came into contact with cultures and religious beliefs of major cultures, and was happy to assimilate any deities they encountered. Rome passed from a Republic to Imperial System when Julius Caesar declared himself Emperor. The Senate disapproved, … Continue reading →

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How Empowerment Can Drive Real Change

Posted on November 1, 2021 by greg

Empowerment has been defined as an intentional ongoing process centered in the local community, involving mutual respect, critical reflection, caring, and group participation, through which people lacking an equal share of valued resources gain greater access to and control over … Continue reading →

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We Must Reign in the Plutocracy to Close the Gap

Posted on August 20, 2020 by greg

The job of the politician in a plutocracy is always to find the line that provides the lowest level of pay, security, housing, consumer protection, health care and political access for society so that the economic elite can extract and … Continue reading →

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Emotions Impact Decisions on How to Make a Better World

Posted on July 10, 2019 by greg

Trickle-down economics has never worked and is still not. Many American workers are angry the only thing that has trickled down are wage-cuts, upside-down mortgages, underemployment, personal bankruptcies and disappearing pensions. The 2016 election the Republican Party cloaked the neoliberal … Continue reading →

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Recession Hurts While Austerity Kills Dreams and People

Posted on February 20, 2019 by greg

Since 2008 trickle-down economics has been kept alive by the austerity delusion – combined inordinate fear with buoyant optimism – of the rich, the bankers, the mainstream economists and the media rather than reality. It has been a decade since … Continue reading →

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Today’s Metanarrative Hides an Assault on Truth and Reality

Posted on February 10, 2019 by greg

More than 30 years ago, academics started to discredit “truth” as one of the ‘grand narratives,’ or a metanarrative which clever people could no longer bring themselves to believe in. Instead of “the truth”, which was to be rejected as … Continue reading →

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