Don’t You DARE Cut the Social Safety Net!
This is a Real Progressives interview on defending and expanding safety net programs, Medicare for All, negotiating with the Republicans in a way that always produces measurable and visible gains, […]
inequality
A Meta-layer for Restoring Democracy and Open Society: Part Three, the IVCS
ByJoseph M. Firestone and Henk Hadders This is the concluding post in a three-part series. The first post highlighted the problem of lack of representativeness in modern societies, characterized human […]
A Meta-layer for Restoring Democracy and Open Society: Part Two, Meta-layer Requirements
ByJoseph M. Firestone and Henk Hadders Requirements for an e-participation platform in human political CASs We won’t be able to stop the movement toward oligarchy unless we can create a […]
Defining the Public Purpose
The video below discusses the concept of the Public purpose with Steven D. Grumbine of Real Progressives. The focus of the video is on the meaning of the idea and […]
On How The Federal Government Spends and Other Matters
My first interview at Real Progressives on Monetary realities, including how the Federal Government spends, the absence of legitimate solvency concerns, austerity scares and other related questions.
Dimensions of Public Purpose
Recently, I was interviewed by Steve Grumbine at Real Progressives about the idea of Public Purpose. Public Purpose is a term which first came to prominence during the 1970s when […]
Lying is Toxic for Democracy
One of the notable things about Donald Trump’s campaign and his pronouncements since election day is his post – election frequent lying. Robert Reich offered a column on December 17 […]
Can Medicare and Social Security Pay Out Full Benefits If Congress Appropriates the Funds Needed for Full Payouts even if the “Trust Funds” Have Reached Zero?
Keeping in mind that the Federal Government cannot involuntarily “run out of money” because of its constitutional money-creating capacity, then the answer to the question in the title is “of […]
Fixing the Debt without Breaking America: Austerity, the Trillion Dollar Coin, and Ending Debt Ceiling, Sequester, and Budgetary Crises
This book is about a counter-narrative to austerity politics. It exposes its fallacies, and, I hope, its closed-mindedness and futility. It also offers a way out of austerity politics. That […]
For US Democracy: There Is Only One Choice
We need big, big changes in the United States. Many of them will require the Federal Government to spend unprecedented amounts, including deficit spending to enable us to solve problems […]