The problem with having two small government pro corporate parties in a near depression is:

[mmonk]

we can't cut our way out of a depression or near depression.

[villager]

1. Time, then, for a third party of, by, for the people...

n/t

[readmoreoften]

8. +1

[mmonk]

9. The problem in some states is that a third party has to face barriers

written into law to prevent access.

[woo me with science]

2. K&R Remember, 300 economists warned the President against this crap.

They will slash spending and the social safety net and cut taxes for their Wall Street masters anyway. It is a travesty.

[mmonk]

3. It really bothers me that not more people are worried about that.

30 years of false framing has made Americans unaware and too aloof.

[woo me with science]

10. Nobody learns economics.

The economy is the center of our lives in this country. It controls all of us. Yet it doesn't even have a place in a high school curriculum.

The politicians should know better, but they are bought and paid for by the people who benefit from this crisis.

[mmonk]

11. I remember being taught economic principles and even having

labor economics as an elective option in mine. I continued to study it at the post secondary level. It is a shame we have just shifted to teaching students how to be worker bees without learning anything about economics history and principles.

[woo me with science]

12. Wow. You were lucky. Either that, or you are very old (j/k).

It kills me that even when it is offered, it is just an elective. The economy rules our lives, and people should have a basic understanding of it for their own protection. How many kids are going to choose economics as an elective over whatever fluff is also offered? Certainly not the ones who probably need most desperately to understand what will happen to them when they get older.

The same people who buy our media and the elections process also control the production of our textbooks. Remember all the threads about that over the past couple of years?

Our history in this country is, at core, a history of economics. ALL of our major wars and national events have been driven by economic interests and crises. Yet when was the last time you saw a history class taught that way?

[mmonk]

13. Pretty old. My hair is predominately white.

:)

I agree with your sentiments.

[Urban Prairie]

4. They will cut, and then when it doesn't all work (which it won't) they will cut even more

Someone please remind me of what and more importantly, WHO we are fighting for, and occupying two nations who did not declare war on US?

The freedom to wage economic and fiscal domestic terrorism upon the most vulnerable, struggling, and weakest in our country??

That is what immature schoolyard bullies do.

My now aged mother warned me when I was younger, that our country would be getting in deep (selfish) trouble, once most of the "Greatest Generation" had died off. Obviously, not "all" of them were all that great, but she seems to have been pretty spot-on for the most part, IMO.

[mmonk]

6. You would think people would catch on.

Doing the same thing over and over again and they expect a different outcome each time?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

5. Nowadays we have only one Herbert Clark Hoover after another, and NO FDRs...

and that's why we're in the present, f'd up situation.

[mmonk]

7. Yep.