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What Happened to Capitalism?

You are a musician. I’m a writer and painter. We both have disabilities. You are blind. I have a lot of broken bones, chronic fatigue, and BiPolar II. You give away your music for free in churches and old people’s homes. I give away my writings for free in blogs and podcasts and letters to the editor and ebooks. And I give free access to my paintings online. We both make people happy with our art. We both work, but we don’t get paid. We don’t sit around on our asses smoking dope. We both work hard at what we do. And we both get food stamps and Supplemental Security Income, S.S.I. And that is what your uniformed right wing friends would like to stop. Continue reading

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The Rude Guy Podcast #86 January 17, 2012

Cure Financial Cancer. Stock traders destroy eight times more wealth than they create. What are derivatives and why do they matter? Media crimes of omission. Wall Street traders create volatility because they only profit when there is volatility. Don’t let racism and sexism against white men destroy the Occupy movement like they did the sixties movement. We need worker-owned businesses. What commodities futures contracts are SUPPOSED to be for — helping farmers and ranchers. Stop computerized trading fraud. Max Keiser talking about fraud as the financial model of the U.S. and U.K. Continue reading

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The Rude Guy text of Podcast #86 January 17, 2012

Cure Financial Cancer. Stock traders destroy eight times more wealth than they create. What are derivatives and why do they matter? Media crimes of omission. Wall Street traders create volatility because they only profit when there is volatility. Don’t let racism and sexism against white men destroy the Occupy movement like they did the sixties movement. We need worker-owned businesses. What commodities futures contracts are SUPPOSED to be for — helping farmers and ranchers. Stop computerized trading fraud. Max Keiser talking about fraud as the financial model of the U.S. and U.K. Continue reading

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