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Economics for Democrats

This website is to educate, clarify, define and defend the economic philosophy of the Democratic Party. It is not the usual text and debate on fiscal policy: what to spend and how to tax. This is up to government operational debate, although a relatively balanced Federal budget is always optimum, except in times of war, recession or depression.

There will be no moral, ethical, political or sociological defense of our economic philosophy offered on this website or in these writings. While they are valid arguments, it reduces the effectiveness of the defense of our policies rather than basing the defense solely on an economic basis. This website demonstrates our current leaders failure to adequately defend and explain our philosophy on an economic basis.This website is a general explanation and defense of our progressive economic philosophy. The goal is to unite the party under a single, macroeconomic umbrella.

I have discovered that there are excellent political-economic books and authors. They have written extensive, long works that few have read. In fact, many Democrats have never even heard of these authors. To offset any time constraints, the essay enables people to review the ideas and philosophy in a short period of time – approx. 15 minutes. The supporting text will eventually be the size of a short book. And, a supplementary reading list will be provided to further your understanding of the subject.

The website currently has two sections: this short introduction and an essay on Progressive Economic Policy. Other explanatory texts and additional tactical comments will be available soon. The text will be continually updated as I go back through the years of my research and bring it to this website.

If you have questions or comments, I encourage you to participate on my blog. When you comment on the blog: please remember that economic logic is circular. It is not linear or in a vacuum. Everything affects everything else.

Hopefully, with your help and through referrals, public relations and advertising campaigns, we can get a large group of people as well as our political leadership to review the ideas here, resulting in active Democrats and voters support for Progressive Economics.

This website is not set up with a profit motive. I am self-funded, and if we sell advertising, it will only be used for website promotions and operational expenses.


2 comments

  1. grant marcus says:

    “Balance the fiscal budget except for severe recessions and/or war.”
    This part of the democratic principles does not go far enough. It is the same as inserting a loophole or bailout ton the principles, and all other principles will suffer. As soon as you have one principle that goes unregulated, it will bring down all others.
    “Balance the fiscal budget except for severe recessions and/or war.” Let’s look at this loophole more closely: 1) These days, our Washington insiders take us to war, and war is usually fought for oil. It is why Cheney held secret meetings with the oil companies to allow these oil juntas to decide the validity of wars around the world, so whereever there is oil, there is a justification for war. So why we have war in the first place is often based on false premises and unrealistic needs. A clear example of this is the followup to the Heritage Foundation that has developed economic strategies for creating 25 wars around the world and giving no-bid contracts to inside corporations to rebuild after warring.
    The Chevron pipeling runs through Georgia and from Afghanistan to the Caspian Sea. By not regulating war,and the threat of war (currently Georgia, Afghanistan, and Iran {the third largest oil reserve}) we allow war to be privatized. We allow runaway slush funds for war (check out the
    Defense budget these days). With no checks on war, as it becomes increasingly privatized, and expands to every aspect of the marketplace, and war, then, will serve to undermine all the other democratic principles suggested. If you look more closely at Wallstreet, and the tiers of Wallstreet, you will find civilian investments doing far worse on the market than oil, mercenaries and mercenary contractors, and the insurance auto, electric, construction, and manuafacturing industries that insure, build, and supply them.
    The problem with this bailout or loophole for war iis that it effects so many of the other principles
    of capitalism. A statement of this nature and magnitude by itself should not be allowed to stand as is. It is like building principles on poor foundations.–grant marcus

  2. mpash says:

    You described the situation pretty well. The example in history is WWII. What is your solution?? The wording could be extreme emergency. This is a political question! The Constitution and The War Powers Act have these save guards. It just seems we just don’t follow the law.

    Thanks for your comments.