Tag Archives: Great Depression

A song about building the American Dream, railroads, towers, war, then being tossed aside to beg for change

Posted on January 3, 2012 by NMT

Most Americans know the lyrics of this depression-era song. Now they know what it was about. They used to tell me I was building a dream, and so I followed the mob, When there was earth to plow, or … Continue reading →

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Legal artistry

Posted on October 26, 2011 by NMT

(In response to questions received on another forum: “I’m curious as to why, exactly, you feel that you are entitled to stay in a public park at all?”, “What makes you feel that you are entitled to enjoy the ‘right’ … Continue reading →

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You get your weather forecast at the grocery store DUH!

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Brother Jonah

My Grandpa, 27 year veteran of the Army, was also a staunch Democrat mostly because of Roosevelt and his emergency actions to stop the Depression from destroying America. As bad as it was, it could have gone worse. I know … Continue reading →

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Capital = Job creation, as explained by CenturyLink formerly Qwest formerly SW Bell

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Brother Jonah

and somewhere in there a brief fantasy relationship with Yahoo as an internet service provider and a general screwing to the taxpayers of the City of Irving and Dallas county being thrown in… but I once more digress. CenturyLink “absorbed” … Continue reading →

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Stage Magick

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Steve Bass

For Bruce McCluggage Had some words with my friend Bruce yesterday–OK, lots of words. In fact, the Spirit moved me, so I was blasting words all over the place like that guy from the X Men, only with a … Continue reading →

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FOX broadcasting at it again, Gullible Travails and A Modest Proposal

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Brother Jonah

CW57, one of the local DumFox stations, aired an “infomercial” for a seminar, books and training videos on how to take advantage of the housing market crash, telling the Gullible that if they buy the properties ON CREDIT (even though … Continue reading →

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Our prejudice against tent-dwellers

Posted on February 20, 2010 by Eric Verlo

What do home-enabled Coloradans have against disadvantaged people forced to live in tents? The Great Depression saw migrant workers having to subsist under canvas, striking miners have been forced from their homes and into camps in Ludlow and before that … Continue reading →

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Deficit truths meet truth deficiency

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Brother Jonah

So, I heard different stories when I was a kid, then started to research them later, about what pulled America out of the Great Depression. One theory was that the “Alphabet Administration” With the REA, TVA, CCC, WPA etc pulled … Continue reading →

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Turning the economic corner to what?

Posted on August 1, 2009 by Tony Logan

The US media is now full of optimistic assurances to ‘We, The People’, that ‘the economy is turning the corner’ and all will be well once again as if that was ever all that much the case! Certainly it has … Continue reading →

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Ground Zero for The Empire’s Collapse- Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation?

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Tony Logan

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation or DTCC is possibly Ground Zero for the US Empire’s potential coming economic collapse, because it is the primary and dominant insuring company that guarantees pay outs for those who hold junk stocks, if … Continue reading →

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Apres nous, le Depression

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Eric Verlo

If it matters what to call this financial crisis, what is it? Is America in a recession? When does a deep recession approach a depression? When is an economic crash revealed to be a collapse? Before we can rename the … Continue reading →

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US government slide rule of accounting

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Tony Logan

The US government and its talking head corporate media clowns are real good at not ever admitting anything about anything. Smile, Smile, Smile! However, this is what the French press group Reuters has to say about the American economy and … Continue reading →

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Doomed to repeat internment camps

Posted on January 5, 2009 by Eric Verlo

Several miles north of Moab, Utah, on Highway 191, there’s an Historical Interest marker to commemorate the Civilian Conservation Corps work camp at Dalton Wells. According to the plaque on the site, Camp DG-32 was used for public works through … Continue reading →

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Colorization of the Grapes of Wrath

Posted on October 29, 2008 by Eric Verlo

I think it’s time to colorize The Grapes of Wrath. And I don’t mean the Turner Classics process exactly. It may help to dumb down the artistic contrast of the black & white for a contemporary audience palate of splashy … Continue reading →

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Stop the Senate of would-be thieves!

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Eric Verlo

Call your Band of Thieving Senators now to tell them you don’t want to give $700 Billion –more honestly likely to be $5 Trillion– to the robber bankers of Wall Street! Telephone Colorado Senators Ken Salazar at 202.224.5852 and Wayne … Continue reading →

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The Panic of 1873 and the panic today

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Tony Logan

Many are looking back at the 1930s to the Great Depression of that Era and comparing today’s capitalist downturn to that one, but others see little similarities between that Economic Crash of what appears to many as the mere distant … Continue reading →

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Seven hundred times N,OOO,OOO,OOO!

Posted on September 29, 2008 by Eric Verlo

Is the strategy to pay this ransom, then have the robbers intercepted as they make their escape? What other excuse will Democrats Pelosi and Reid offer for coming home with a bag full of 140,000,000,000 wooden nickels? That money’s gone … Continue reading →

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Hang the Wall Street Extortionists!

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Thomas Mc

Extortion is a crime. The only thing we should bring to Wall St. is a gallows. I rarely agree with Joel Stein, but I guess even a broken watch can be right twice a day. The bailout won’t fix anything, … Continue reading →

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Hand over the treasure, or we’ll burn the ship down! Arrrrrr!

Posted on September 24, 2008 by Thomas Mc

First Wall St. demanded a $1T bailout, so taxpayers relaxed a bit when Paulson said it was only $700B (!) Now it looks like they’re upping the extortion to $5T. Since less than 100 million Americans actually pay Federal Income … Continue reading →

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The Conservative Motto: Greed is Good, Greed is God!

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Thomas Mc

The trouble with optimism. I especially love the first quote, by Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, who made billions off the Great Depression. War with Spain? Palestinians file war crimes charges against Israel. Probably moot, as both US presidential candidates would … Continue reading →

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The Lysol toilet bowl game

Posted on January 1, 2008 by Marie Walden

You probably know that I’m a big sports fan. I grew up watching football with my dad and cut my teeth on the traditions, the rivalries, the pageantry of college football. Some of my fondest memories are of college bowl … Continue reading →

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Kurt Vonnegut goes

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Eric Verlo

M and I just read Harrison Bergeron together two nights ago. I remembered the story from high school, where we also read Slaughterhouse Five to my father’s consternation. I like to think it was just the language he objected to. … Continue reading →

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Dale Chihuly meet Brent Green

Posted on September 2, 2006 by Eric Verlo

A friend of mine is a filmmaker and I’d like to crow about him a little. His name is Brent Green and I came to know him through the local filmmaker festival, The Pikes Peak Passion Film Festival. Brent … Continue reading →

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Black Friday and Paul Bunyan

Posted on November 29, 2005 by Eric Verlo

Did you know that the first shopping day after Thanksgiving was known as “Black Friday?” Neither did I! Apparently “Black Friday” is so named because it’s the first day of the year that retailers can recoup enough from their … Continue reading →

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