David Brooks: 'Moderately' Conservative Idiot David Brooks of the New York Times just can't help himself when it comes to making stuff up in order to make Democrats look bad. In his Op/Ed Piece today, titled "The Democratic Tea-Party", Brooks ... KantV420 06/16/2015 10 15 - -

TPP: Worse Than We Thought Over the weekend I wrote about the draft released by Wikileaks on Wednesday concerning another, far larger Trade Deal known as the Trade in Services Agreement or, TISA, which would privatize ... KantV420 06/10/2015 27 25 1 -

Attended A Public College? Don't Pay Your Federal Loans. A College education is important, perhaps more important than ever before. If you want to work anywhere other than Walmart or McDonald's or someplace like that, a college education is essential. But ... KantV420 06/03/2015 67 7 1 -

Economics Of The Poor Part 2: How A More Equitable World Is Possible After mentioning life at the bottom in my previous diary, I thought I'd mention policy prescriptions that could and would help the lower classes. Some of which we might already have were Congress ... KantV420 05/30/2015 2 2 - -

The Economics Of Being Poor Being a Working-class citizen isn't an easy life in America. A country full with pride, we take for granted those that work for minimum-wage or maybe even just over minimum. We all see them every ... KantV420 05/28/2015 6 9 - -

Bernie Sanders Enters The Race As most of us here at DailyKos know by now, Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont, has made his official announcement speech declaring his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for ... KantV420 05/27/2015 13 14 1 -

Another Reason To Say "No" To TPP Bolivia, a nation nestled high in the Andes, has a history steeped in struggle, populated by a peoples whose greatest accomplishment can be said to be their very survival. Cochabamba, one of the ... KantV420 04/26/2015 143 161 6 -

Chris Mathews and President Obama to America: Trade is GOOD! "Trade is good" says Chris Mathews this morning on Morning Joe. This follows his interview Tuesday with President Obama who, after being asked by Mathews why some democrats like Elizabeth Warren ... KantV420 04/22/2015 29 6 - -

Martin O'Malley: Yes To Fight For $15, No To TPP Martin O'Malley, a possible challenger to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, speaking at Harvard University on Thursday night, called for a raise in the minimum wage to $15 an hour. ... KantV420 04/20/2015 12 16 1 -

The Case For Forgiving Private Consumer Debt America has a debt problem. I'm not talking about Government debt, which can be handled by simply raising revenues, nor am I talking about Business Debt which is another issue altogether. What I ... KantV420 04/01/2015 116 54 1 -