Rants and Essays
Denver: Yesterday We Marched. November We Vote.
Yesterday was a perfect day for a march. It was an amazing event. Friday night, at least two local news stations reported that there would be a march, and they estimated that there would be around 2000-5000 participants. As it turned out, there were between 150,000...
I Feel Like Don Quixote
So I’ve gone and done it. I have filed to run for office. Specifically, I am running for Colorado State Senate in District 30. District 30 includes Highlands Ranch, Parker and Roxborough. While it may not be the reddest district in the country, or perhaps even in the...
What is The Republican Party? Part 1: The Kochs
Fred Koch was born in 1900 in Quanah Texas. His parents were Dutch immigrants. After attending Rice University and MIT and graduating with a degree in Chemical Engineering Practice, he started working for Texas Company, and then became chief engineer with Medway Oil...
If This Be Civil Disobedience … Make The Most Of It.
The concern that Robert Mueller will be fired is growing, and with that is a commitment by thousands to hit the streets. (If you agree with the protest and want to join in, be sure to check out this link ). Even if he doesn't get fired, we might want to protest the...
The Law of Diminishing Returns – or Why Tax Cuts for Wealthy Corporations Won’t Create Jobs
It seems to me that even the economists, who should have been all over this, have missed the boat about tax cuts for the wealthy and for wealthy corporations will not create more jobs. They have also missed why tax increases on the wealthy will not cost jobs. It is...
The Negative Multiplier Effect and the New Tax Bill: Tanking the Economy
I have read a lot of articles about how the new tax bill will impact people in this country and our economy. But I have read none that include the multiplier effect. That is probably the scariest aspect of the new tax bill and we had better understand it. I ran the...
Start Believing the Truth About Hillary Clinton, Not the GOP’s Lies
Editor's note: This post was written the week of the 2016 Democratic National Convention but was never published. The 2016 election cycle has been one of the most vicious and frightening in my lifetime. We’re on the precipice of the possibility of real change in this...
There Was Only One David
This is my next installation in my economic series about the coming Corporate Feudalism and how we avoid it. I was raised in a Christian family, more specifically, a Methodist family. (I'm Catholic now, but was Methodist then.) In our church, while the adults...
Mr. Kasich, THIS is What the Dems Stand For
John Kasich was on Meet the Press on August 27 when he said, “The problem with the Democrats––I can’t figure out what they’re for. I mean, they have a golden opportunity, right, to be able to come in and win elections, but they can’t figure out anything other than the...
The Economies of the Thirteen Colonies, or Why Founders Twisted God to Line Their Purses
A tad over six months ago, I was writing a series about economics and labor. In my last installment, here, I said I would talk about the Union movement in the US. But before I can do that, I realized that I have to talk about what the US looked like economically...