Here’s progressive broadcaster Thom Hartmann explaining how a Democratic and a Republican president–Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower–handled US debt during their terms…they paid it down and grew the US economy simultaneously.Nowadays you’d think such a practical feat involves rocket science, wouldn’t you?My favorite part is Harry Truman in 1948 calling out the Republican Party as the
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US Default 1979 Venus hit by July 2011 Uranus
After last evening’s address by President Obama on the debt ceiling/default tussle of ideologies and Speaker John Boehner’s reply–Mr. Boehner seems to think he’s our ‘shadow president’–I’ve taken a second look at the first time America defaulted temporarily–April 26, 1979. Since a New Moon 5Tau43 occurred at 8:14:42 am est Capitol Building, I’m using the New Moon to time the chart. The degree
President’s Weekly Address July 16, 2011 (video)
President Obama has one of his weekly ‘bully pulpit’ messages for us which spotlights US economic issues and the theatrical Default Stand-Off with his usual well-crafted, seemingly direct approach. Yes, yes, of course I agree that "we’re all in this together." It’s just that a select few are a lot more in than together with the rest of us.Such as the frisky elitist movers’n’shakers now frolicking
Horoscope: Eric Cantor w July 2011 Debt Talks planets
Swords v Torches! Debt Talks & Walk-Outs Continue at the White Houseby Jude CowellAccording to his Wikipedia bio page, Eric Ivan Cantor was born on June 6, 1963 in Richmond, Virginia. Mr. Cantor has inhabited the role of House Majority Leader since January 3, 2011, and is of a Republican persuasion. His father, a real estate firm owner, acted as state treasurer for the 1980 presidential campaign
Horoscope: Uranus Square Pluto on Aug 8, 2011
Image: August 8, 2011 8:13 am edt White House, Washington DC; click chart to enlarge:In case you wish a view, here’s a horoscope of the closest orb I’m finding between disruptive rebel Uranus 4Ari14 Rx 8th house, and powerful, subversive Pluto 5Cap15 Rx in 4th house with the chart set for the White House, and Moon 11Sag53 conjoining the Great Conjunction of Pluto and Chiron (Pluto/Chiron =
US Default? America’s Jupiter Makes the News!
A Sabian Symbol Makes the News: US Jupiter @ 6 Cancer: 7.10.11by Jude CowellWith the August 2, 2011 default deadline looming large, this morning’s Meet The Press featured Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner laying out the argument once again–for Republicans, it is said. No doubt there’s hope that Tea Partisans might listen in from behind the ideological door.One long-range sort of theory that’s
Dear Obama, Keep SS Off the Table: Sanders and Whitehouse
Considering the Social Security Loathing of the GOPby Jude CowellWell, the Rs get to finally Starve the Beast! But we the American people are self-destructive numbskulls if we allow the corporate elite’s handmaidens in Washington DC to steal from Social Security to pay what is really credit card debt run up under three Republican presidents: Reagan, Bush, and W-Bush, as Thom Hartmann points out
Moon-Saturn meeting Washington DC July 7, 2011
On June 10th I wrote a brief description of what I see as prime astro-factors occurring on August 2, 2011, the debt ceiling deadline when all feathers hit the financial fan if America’s credit line isn’t raised and our nation defaults. The signature of Jupiter-Neptune is upon it thus indicating that the pair’s ‘speculation-inflation-grand-schemes’ flavor is in the brew.Then on July 21, 2011,
Paul Krugman: the ‘Corporate Cash Con’ (Pluto/Chiron)
Economist Paul Krugman’s July 3, 2011 NYT op ed on the Corporate Cash Con being perpetrated by the global Pluto/Chiron criminal banking syndicate lays out clearly the power elite’s scheme now throttling America’s neck with Reagan’s old ‘trickle down’ economics scam.And Thom Hartmann renounced on his broadcast today (Tuesday July 5, 2011) the ‘trickle down’ theory of economics which didn’t work
Jon Stewart on the US Debt Ceiling Crisis (video)
The Daily Show – Broke Bank MountingGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on FacebookWednesday June 29, 2011: Thank goodness! Someone without an election campaign to finance, The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, deals with the tiresomely political stalemate and one-upsmanship between Ds and Rs concerning the US economy and the August 2nd debt ceiling