2012 Election
Answer to President Obama
President Obama's people sent email asking what it would take to inspire me to contribute to his campaign. Here is my answer: call my brother, Sam, and do what he says about health care.
By Dan Allen
Budget Stalemate
Why 'Taxes' is a Dirty Word
Conservatives are still reading President Bush's lips.
By Christian Science Monitor
Truth Matters
The research found that actually we often base our opinions on our beliefs ... and rather than facts driving beliefs, our beliefs can dictate the facts we chose to accept.
By Bill Moyers
Transcript
Budget Address
"I am committed to making the painful choices today that will help ensure that we are not back here next year making drastic cuts."
By Peter Shumlin, Governor of Vermont
Vermont Government Workers
2011 Kicks Off Loudly
Governor Peter Shumlin plans to fund the existing state work force, while simultaneously filling only half the positions that become vacant through retirement, voluntary furloughs, and a hiring freeze.
By Dan Allen
Rights for Dummies
Foodstamps and Soda Pop
Government-mandated meals of bulgar and kale for people on long term welfare is humane, if you ask me. We might as well start thinking about new standards, while our economy rewinds to the conditions of the 1800s.
By Dan Allen
New Regina Riddle
Rove, Shumlin, Appointees
By Righteous Regina the Republican
Everything
It's All About Money
From 1980 to 2005, more than four-fifths of the total increase in American incomes went to the richest 1 percent. Real incomes for the majority of Americans have stagnated or declined while work hours and insecurity have increased, along with debt. Wealth has accumulated, but in very few pockets, leading to inequality not seen in more than 100 years.
By Dan Allen
Election Night
RRRtR Emerges on Election Night!
CHANGE is what we need and it needs to be a Conservative edge to it.
By Righteous Regina the Republican
Trickle Down Economics
By Ronald Reagan
These United States are confronted with an economic affliction of great proportions. It distorts our economic decisions, penalizes thrift, and crushes the struggling young and the fixed-income elderly alike.
By Ronald Reagan and Dan Allen
Net Neutrality Dying
Big Media Pushing Others Off the Internet
Little sites like this one will still be on the internet, the way USENET and TELNET are on the internet: where normal people will never find them. Democratization of public communications is at its pinnacle now, and looking downhill into the future.
By DemocracyNow
Message to Vermont Taxpayers
State Employees
Thanks to Vermont taxpayers, state workers have a better deal than Asian sweatshop workers. How long will this last?
By Dan Allen
Asian Sweatshops
Slaves Keep Prices Down for Americans
Hourly wages below a dollar. Firings with no notice. Indifferent bosses. Labor brokers that leech away months of a worker's hard-earned wages. Americans justify the system.
By Jonathan Adams and Kathleen E. McLaughlin, GlobalPost
Vermont Proposals
What kind of state can we make?
By Dan Allen
US War Criminals
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War criminals
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GW Bush's admission in his memoirs, that he authorized water boarding, puts a burden of international law on the United States government to prosecute.
By Dan Allen
Balancing the Budget
Fix Democracy to Fix the Deficit
Use worldwide instant communications to take Democracy to a fantastically effective, fair, intelligent form, not feasible when we started self government.
By Dan Allen
American Collapse
Democracy Dead
The economy is in the hands of corporate swindlers and speculators.
By Chris Hedges
Wall Street
How Brokers Steal a Penny per Trade
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Traders
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Traders using high frequency trading programs collect a quarter of a penny rebate for every transaction they make. They're not interested in making a gains from a trade, just collecting the rebate, 4 times per stock purchase.
By Dan Allen, adapted from Graham Summers
USA vs. Taliban
Just Back from Taliban
The Taliban are gaining in popularity, gaining in strength. The leadership of the Taliban acknowledged the targeted killing campaign of senior Taliban leadership has been successful, but they say that it's producing new generations of increasingly radical leaders.
By Jeremy Scahill and Rick Rowley, Interviewed by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzelez of DemocracyNow.org
President Obama
Owned by Banks and Military Industrial Complex
Dwight Eisenhower's warning about the Military Industrial Complex has gone unheeded. As a result, the President lacks the power to create the change promised in the 2008 campaign.
By Dan Allen
Native Vermonters
Native is Relative
We're all African, so in a way, none of us are native to Vermont.
By Dan Allen
Google
Email Search
Funny how Google web search is so awesome, but searching Gmail is not so easy.
By Dan Allen
Blessings
Warm Light
Blessings in your direction.
By Dan Allen
Recovery Story
Giving Up Alcohol
"You have an eroded soul." When I heard that, I did not know what my sponsor meant.
By Anonymous
Everyday Heros
Montpelier Health Center
The administration crew at Montpelier Health Center is finer than a Swiss watch, more powerful than 8 men working together.
By Dan Allen
VTDigger
Nobody Else Does It
Josh Larkin and Anne Galloway set the standard for Vermont's in-depth print reporting, provided you see the internet as print.
By Dan Allen
Discussion
How Honest Is Vermont?
Message board discussion from 2007, informal look at Vermont corruption compared with other states. Low development may mean low corruption.
By city-data.com
My VSEA Activism
Objectives
By Dan Allen
Banksters
Goldman Sachs College Scam
Goldman Sachs Social Club, New York City
Goldman Sachs is the majority owner of a group of for profit colleges, tying our youth into debt for over-priced education.
By Mother Jones
Bernie's Contest
Rules
500 words or less that explains your ideas for fair and responsible ways to approach these challenges.
By Dan Allen