Gus Tyler
By Gus Tyler
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News Manufacturing Declines, Millions Suffer
American manufacturing has been on a steady decline for many years. It started just a few years after the end of World War II. The first sectors of the economy to start losing jobs were those that were labor-intensive: apparel, dolls, toys, shoes, millinery, novelties, electronic assembly and so forth. Then the job loss hit…
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News Bush Budget Taxing on Have-nots
President Bush has announced that he intends to cut costs in the 2005 budget. He is doing so because of the pressure he’s getting from many in the GOP who complain bitterly that he is piling up the highest deficits in the nation’s history after promising less — not more — government. For 2003, the…
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News The Illusion of the Latest Medicare Reform
Just about every major industrial democracy in the world has a single-payer system to provide medical services. The payer is the government that, in turn, is financed by taxes paid by those who someday may require medical care. The United States has a multi-party system involving insurance companies, health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and the federal…
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News Bush’s Odds in 2004 Depend on the Economy
At this moment, one of the hottest political questions is: Who will be the Democratic candidate for president? Right now, Howard Dean appears to be the frontrunner. But he is not necessarily the only candidate who could fare well in a contest with President Bush. Almost any one of the serious present aspirants has a…
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News Economic Recovery, Always Just Around the Corner
Herbert Hoover, the Republican president of the United States during the beginning of the Great Depression, seems to have set a style of coping with economic disaster that is now being copied by our modern “Hoovers.” As the worst depression ever experienced in the United States deepened, Hoover decided that what was needed was to…
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News Re-election Makes President Bush Run
Recent moves by the White House make it increasingly evident that what makes George W. Bush run is his run for re-election in 2004. Consider his ambivalent antics on steel tariffs. The president imposed tariffs on imported steel. Why did he do it? The universal answer is that he did it to woo the votes…
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News Battling a ‘Bunch of Thugs’
In addressing troops in Colorado on his way to his ranch in Texas, President Bush declared that he would not be intimidated by a “bunch of thugs.” He was referring, of course, to those plaguing our troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The president’s use of the term “thugs” may shed light on why these…
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News Trying To Match Bush’s Monetary Might
The decision of two Democratic presidential candidates, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts and former Vermont governor Howard Dean, to forego federal funding in their campaigns must come as a shocker to many Democrats. Federal funding of presidential campaigns was supposed to be a way to liberate candidates from the need to obligate themselves to the…
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