http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/spyinthesky2/Since 1980, the zealots of the Republican party have been driving the USA back to the predatory capitalism and the gun-boat diplomacy we thought we had left behind at the end of the 19th century.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/spyinthesky2/64458When George W. Bush first assumed office without having received the plurality of the American vote we might have thought he would tread lightly on some of the cherished laws and rules that had been established to protect the American people but instead, right from the outset, Bush let it be...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/spyinthesky2/56038When GW Bush usurped the presidency with the help of his brother, the governor of Florida, who committed vote fraud and the five members of the USSC who just committed out and out fraud, there were all sorts of important agenda items that the incoming president would have to address. With...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/spyinthesky2/46800It would appear that as the Republicans and their ilk continue to win the class warfare, old habits that were considered the crass privilige of the elite back in the 19th century, are resuming in full force and fury and it's unlikely that laws that have since been passed against these behaviors...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/spyinthesky2/38507Recently an article was written in Psychology Today that analyzed the psychological syndrome associated with people who call themselves "Conservatives." Basically, the article referred to a common admixture of fear of the unorthodox or unusual, paranoia, narrowmindedness and an almost obsessive...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/spyinthesky2/26369President Bush and his dogged fellow Republicans are in the process of trying to repeal the Fair Labor Act of the 1930s which set the 40 hour work week with overtime pay for non-salaried workers. If Bush & the Republicans can pull this one off it will be another huge dollop of money taken from...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/spyinthesky2/19868Before Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neil resigned his office last year he had initiated a federal study of the projected revenue and expenditures of the US government considering the fact that nearly 80 million people would be retiring over the next two decades. The study was supposed to be...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/spyinthesky2/14076After more than two decades of predominantly Republican control of the US government we have seen the gap between the rich and everyone else grow abnormally. Of course, the Republicans and their media acolytes would have you believe that it's all a matter of "merit" when in fact, it's really a...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/spyinthesky2/8194REPUBLICANS are taking us back to the 19th century and it isn't anything like going "back to the future." Since 1980 when Ronald Reagan assumed office there has been a concerted successful effort to reduce taxes for the rich (their marginal tax rate was reduced from 70% to 28% by Reagan) while...