peter g peterson foundation bias

Very astute comment, I enjoyed it very much! The most influential billionaire in America is Peter G. Peterson. The success of this effort has been so complete that its organizers are now engaged in what in military terms would be depicted as a mopping-up operation, that of cleaning out the last pockets of isolated resistance. Many of those for whom cost was a barrier to taking prescribed medicine presumably fell into the infamous “doughnut hole” in Medicare drug coverage, which required that seniors pay for all of their drug costs between $2,400 and $3,800 in a given year. In response, PBS has tended to become softer on issues, particularly those that question the motives of the national government, anti-imperialism, etc. Well, not really. All rights reserved. In short, he doesn’t seem to have a positive belief system. Nothing to worry about here at all. But the whole Klein/Yglesias/Orszag/CAP complex is trying to look all “serious” by staging a shotgun attack on health care costs, when it’s health care waste they should be fighting. Socialism crashed on the shoals of roast beef, etc. But he recognizes, as does any knowledgeable person, that you’ve got to reform those programs as part of a comprehensive grand fiscal bargain.”. Corporate Advocacy Program: How to repair your business reputation. And all of this is, of course, allowed to happen, because who are we to impede the free market. It became quite obvious that Hogeland was firing blanks when, on the above-linked thread, I cited some historical information concerning Hamilton from one of Kevin Phillips’ books, Wealth and Democracy. This is the overarching, dominant politico-economic reality of our times. These were people who wanted a more balanced and equitable economy. The highest marginal income tax rate was 91%. Ah, but when fictitious assets giving life to so-called conservative enterprises are wiped out by the fast approaching collapse of the trans-Atlantic banking system, how will the infiltration you fret over possibly stand? First there were the progressives that were similar to the Social Democrats of Europe. Be specific. Yet anyone who saw that the Commie-bashing of the 1950s was followed by the radicalism of the later 1960s would conclude that the American psyche was capable of large shifts, and there was no reason to leave this process to chance. Poets see what those without feeling think irrelevant. The Old Testament was typically cherry-picked to be God’s Greatest Hits. For anyone interested, a counter-conference was run last year to mark this pseudo-event. The interview you cite is from October 2008. I keep getting the impression, upon seeing an author’s affiliation listed as Roosevelt Institute, that they must be right-leaning. It’s worse than you can imagine. If it’s useful to see liberalism as the ideology of capitalism, it’s also useful to see Hamilton as the liberal, and Madison’s attack on Hamilton’s projects as coming from a liberty-oriented Southern right. The chaos was replicated upon implementation. Why it chooses to direct most of its fire at doctors, professors, and scientists is something that’s hard to understand…until you read about Peterson funding in something like the post above. The reporting is factual and usually sourced. Copyright © 1997-2020, Ripoff Report. In fact Peterson should praise FICA otherwise congress would be coming for his class and their tax havens, loopholes, capital gains, trust funds, etc. Probably best for those with a conscience in this country to fight for global equality, rather than try to combat the centrifugal tendencies among US progressives. See all Least Biased Sources. Introduction A big part of the problem with media “progressives” is that they DID go to Hamburger college and Walmart Grad school. Peter George Peterson (June 5, 1926 – March 20, 2018) was an American investment banker who served as United States Secretary of Commerce from February 29, 1972, to February 1, 1973, under the Richard Nixon administration. It was DSK’s misfortune as one of these elites to have committed in New York the violent kind of crime our system assiduously prosecutes, or at least to have presented a good enough case to a grand jury to get himself cuffed. Or, has our post-democratic structue of power also spawned a profssional/academic/bureaucratic/managerial/careerist social formation that is intimately involved with both Big Capital and Big Government? The foundation’s roster of grant recipients has been similarly eclectic: the right-wing Heritage Foundation and the liberal Brookings Institution. Can Disneyland fanatics carry on without the “Happiest Place on Earth”? Further, the latest blog post is by the same Dr. Rich, acknowledging this NC post and putting forth a defense of the Institute–which would seem to be a defense of Dr. Rich, if he has, indeed, tendered his resignation in lieu of a probable dismissal. Regarding Hamilton, everything Phillips says about his finance plan is true, but where Phillips seees the most important result as the split between Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans he prefers, I’m looking elsewhere, for other significances, and I just don’t agree that when you really get down to where they lived, “Jefferson’s now-victorious party, the Democratic-Republicans, consisted of a more homespun and egalitarian crowd…” The critique by Phillips of Hamilton is much like that of Madison, and it’s intellectually completely consistent, to me, with Phillips’s kind of conservatism, which is the conservatism of that very Democratic-Republican patrty. Peterson declined to be interviewed for this column. What part of the Bible is responsible for the current mess? The main reason for the divorce between the high costs of the new insurance and its meager benefits is simple: Republicans insisted that Medicare stay out of the business of directly providing drug coverage. Thing is that most people don’t really believes the propaganda but I guess they feel helpless because its everywhere all the time. Since the government backed counterfeiting cartel, the banking system, disproportionately benefits the rich then the rich should pay a disproportionate share of taxes. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. “The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love [to have it] so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?”. I can’t believe we have discussions like this. The Peter G. Peterson Foundation is an American foundation established in 2008 by Peter G. Peterson, former US Secretary of Commerce in the Nixon Administration and co-founder of the Blackstone Group, an American financial-services company. (The Post later appended a note to the web article saying that it should have acknowledged the tie to Concord. Kristin Tutor seeks $29.9 million for Holmby Hills mansion. Peterson was now co-opting both the Dalai Lama’s name and linking his sleaze foundation to the concept of ethics. Because the notion of having government policies promote the welfare of the middle class was so widely shared, it seemed inconceivable that these values could ever come under assault. It’s viewed as akin to funding anti-cancer research—rather than a political effort that would have the effect of shifting vast amounts of wealth from the middle class to Pete Peterson’s class. He doesn’t have a political ideology (although he is an ex-Trot). "True business patriots need to advocate for their country as well as their company."[4]. I suppose the NY Times can trot out the excuse that it has to be “balanced” in its coverage, but what is the excuse of a so-called advocacy organization like the Roosevelt Institute? Hogeland is part and parcel of the growing chorus being assembled by the banksters to rewrite history so as to revive the reputation of Alexander Hamilton. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures. It’s half way between Andromeda and the end of the Milky Way, hang a left then a right and you’ll see it. Bush’s Medicare Part D added three or four trillion to Usgov’s negative net worth at one whack, in the year it was enacted. What I found was that they were all pretty much the same. As part of this program, the American Enterprise Institute, Bipartisan Policy Center, Center for American Progress, Economic Policy Institute, Heritage Foundation and Roosevelt Institute Campus Network each received grants of $200,000 to develop comprehensive plans for long-term fiscal sustainability. Moreover, the paper touts a faddish, noxious idea for further financializing the economy from the faux liberal group, the Center for American Progress: Folks, what will the net effect of this be? Then it took me lotsa Bud-on-the-fire to barbie-cue its scrawny ass. Is Andrew Rich the president whose resignation has just been tendered? It would also serve them well to conduct a broad-based search to find a leader who is truly dedicated to carrying on the proud legacy of FDR. Today exiledonline is running the following headline in it’s “What You Should Know” section: Pete Peterson – The Blackstone Billionaire Funding the “America Can’t Afford Social Security/Medicare” Campaign – is Also Responsible for Massive British Care Home Industry Disaster That Could Put Thousands Of Elderly On The Streets…. While George W. Bush’s tax cuts destroyed the Clinton budget surpluses …. YouTube bans some QAnon content, following Facebook and Twitter. He shall have monuments enough of that precious attribute, shining like stars in the place of glory, and singing eternal hallelujahs to the praise of Him that redeemed them, though, to exalt the power of his justice, he damn sinners heaps upon heaps.”. It’s really remarkable how unquestioningly the existence of these billionaire, personal-interest ‘forums’ are not just accepted, but touted as the means of finding solutions to ‘our’ problems. But the history of for-profit educational institutions at the college level is not so encouraging. ” And using the term “Trojan horse” would be too charitable. Yves, Or sign up to receive our Weekly Update on Friday, with links to all our latest work. But while decrying Austerianism, the anti-Austerians simultaneously deplore tax cuts which boosted consumers’ purchasing power. He hasn’t put it together that Obama never failed, that kleptocracy is a system, and that Obama (and the Democrats, and the Republicans) are just its political face. Skippy…death cults are unfriendly to all living things. Orwell knew this first hand. The “news” article, headlined “Support Grows for Tackling Nation’s Debt,” took it as a given that the “tough decisions that will be required to dig the nation out of debt” include “painful spending cuts and tax increases”—and “spending” referred to the “skyrocketing spending on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security,” not the $663 billion military budget. People without savings don’t really care about inflation…. Yes. http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3340, Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington group funded in part by labor unions, said Obama extracted some concessions from Republicans that may help the accord advance in Congress. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. I’m simply too naive and ignorant. John Dean’s “Conservatives Without Conscience” unpacks their psychology very, very well: they’re tyrannical. First was the sheer amount of resources devoted to it: an imperial armada of think tanks, advertising dollars, political donations, polling and focus group road testing. But only a fool would look at Social Security and conclude that everything is fine. After a while, enough of a record is built up that you really begin to see who is who and what is what. The Concord Coalition received $6,036,060 (including $1,500,000 in matching funds) from the Peterson Foundation from 2009 to 2012: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Overton_window, Another bribery example: The National Federation of the Blind and Diebold: http://www.wheresthepaper.org/Diebold_NFB.pdf. It’s free and open to anyone who can look up. Their existence is a given. Those same concerns now lie at the heart of a “fiscal responsibility” curriculum being developed for America’s high schools.

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