We have to offer an alternative vision,” says Romney upon winning New Hampshire and that alternative is a path to a place “where we are lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.” In case anyone is forgetting, this election is about the economy, and Mitt’s proving that people want someone who they trust on the economy. [cont…]
In (plenty of) time for Christmas, go get an Occupy t-shirt.
November 22, 2011 by
Just in time for Black Friday, Despair, Inc brings you the perfect t-shirt for the Occupier on your Christmas list.: Go get it from Despair,Inc.
The Conservatives’ Challenge on Economic Inequality
November 18, 2011 by
[This is the first in a set of pieces by Benjamin Lusty, lawyer and an occasional contributor to Publius Online, on the topic of economic inequality] ______________________________________________________________ Americans tend not to wage class war. The rugged individual within us celebrates economic success. True, we loathe profit by malfeasance, but we do not begrudge those who prosper […]
An interesting thing happened on the way to Occupy Wall Street…
October 18, 2011 by
An interesting thing happened on the way to the Occupy Wall Street protest… The wealthy got involved. Since sometime last week, a new meme has circled the internet. “We are the 1%,” it says, and it shows independently wealthy twenty and thirty hoisting cardboards and papers with short manifestos written in Sharpie. It almost always […]
Occupy Wall Street v. Steve Jobs
October 7, 2011 by
Every time one of those Occupy Wall Street (and their lesser known cousins, like Occupy Salt Lake) tweet their status on their iPhone, I am struck by the irony. Steve Jobs was a capitalist, and were it not for Wall Street, there might not have been a Steve Jobs or that iPhone. It was the access […]
The Obama Presidency, By the Numbers
October 4, 2011 by
Because sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words… [VIA]
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