Tag: Austerity Cuts a Huge Mistake

For my Republican Friends: Thomas Jefferson on Religion and Conscience – and John Kasich

Perhaps you’ll join me in my current mood for considering a revealing quote from Thomas Jefferson on the topic of religion which Republican politicians seem to compulsively use for burnishing their political status among Evangelicals and other Americans of a religious persuasion (conservative or liberal) who may be tempted to vote in November 2016 for intolerant, austerity-promoting,

Austerity Spread Sheets Flawed (Colbert video)

Stephen Colbert interviews graduate student Thomas Herndon who discovered in writing a paper for his professor that the spreed sheets used to justify the benefits of austerity measures contain faulty numbers, plus, the much-cited Growth in a Time of Debt by Rogoff and Reinhart completely leaves out the improved economies of Australia and others in order to further support their faulty conclusions

Horoscope: Sequester July 27, 2011

Can ‘Sequester’ Have a Natal Horoscope?

by Jude Cowell

Here is a natal horoscope I propose for the ‘Sequester’ based on Bob Woodward’s assertion that Jack Lew, now sworn in as Treasury Secretary, and the White House’s Ron Nabors presented the ‘sequester’ idea to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on July 27, 2011 at 2:30 pm edt, allegedly as a way to make sure GOP and Democratic legislators

Horoscope: Feb 25, 2013 Virgo Full Moon w Austerity notes

Feb 25, 2013’s Full Moon Spotlights ‘Austerity v Growth’ Solutions

by Jude Cowell

On his blog at The Nation, John Nichols writes how Sequestration Sacrifices Jobs to Save Billionaire Tax Breaks as radicals work to impose austerity against the American people in order to redistribute wealth toward the top as their basic priority.

And I believe the Full Moon in Virgo (sign of Jobs and Work)

Robert Reich (Sun in Cancer) on McCaskill-Corker Spending Caps (video)

Here’s a brief video message from a top US economist whom normal people can listen to without barfing up their dinners, Professor Robert Reich (UC Berkeley.) The message concerns the McCaskill-Corker ‘spending caps’ proposal which is a dressed up effort to fund more war over the needs of the American people while decimating our nation’s social contract between the generations and thus collapsing

"Austerity is here!" Alex Jones video; US transits of austerity

Video: Alex Jones on Austerity in America.Well, if someone wanted my top picks of astrological factors that describe our nation’s current atmosphere of ‘austerity cuts’ I would have to cite four:1. the background influence of America’s Secondary Progressed Full Moon of December 24, 2008 when we reached our limits of expansion (4Vir10/Pis) during the throes of Financial Collapse 2008;2. the