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To: The Brookings Institute, Subject: Eliminating Poverty, Racism, & War

By Rick Osbourne · 2 years ago

CC: Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, Economic Policy Institute, American Enterprise Institute, Aspen Institute, Center for American Progress, RAND Corporation, as well as any and all other DC based Economic Think Tanks who are interested in ...

Freedom and The Economic Democracy Act

By Rick Osbourne · 2 years ago

George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, and Donald J. Trump (among others, i.e. the 1%) are “independently wealthy.” That is to say, they never DEPEND on an employer or the government for their financial wherewithal. They ...

One Person One Vote is Not Enough to Rescue America’s Faltering Democracy

By Rick Osbourne · 2 years ago

While Democrats struggle to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, Republican/Trump controlled state legislatures continue to pass laws that restrict and suppress voting rights for people of color. Welcome to America in 2022. But ...

Make Every Citizen an Owner! The Case for Universal Basic Ownership!

By Rick Osbourne · 2 years ago

According to a Federal Reserve 2018 estimate, the American economy, on average, creates $4,000,000,000,000 (4 trillion dollars) worth of wealth producing capital assets annually. That translates into about $12,000 for every man, woman, and child ...

Everything Progressives Want, While Reducing Taxes, Balancing the Budget, and Systematically Paying Down the National Debt!

By Rick Osbourne · 2 years ago

Does this sound impossible? Inconceivable? Totally nuts? If so, check out the following scenario. And when you’re done reading see if you’ve changed your mind about what’s possible and what's impossible. According to a Federal ...

Just Imagine…330 Million Economically Productive American Citizens!

By Rick Osbourne · 2 years ago

The US currently has a total population of about 330 million people including approximately 73 million children under the age of 18. There are over 46 million retired people. And there are 8 million disabled ...

Bernie Would Be President Today If He Had Endorsed Economic Democracy Over Democratic Socialism

By Rick Osbourne · 2 years ago

Words matter. And in the vocabulary of many Americans the word Socialism is a dirty word. In that light, when a politician runs for the Presidency of the United States and describes himself as a ...

Economic Emancipation VS Wage Slavery in the USA

By Rick Osbourne · 2 years ago

If you own enough wealth producing capital assets such as land, buildings, machinery, patents, copyrights, stocks, or bonds YOUR MONEY IS WORKING FOR YOU and it’s probably producing a stream of capital income from which ...

How to Build Back Better Without INFLATION!

By Rick Osbourne · 3 years ago

Inflation is what happens whenever the government prints money that’s backed ONLY by INCREASED DEBT instead of tangible assets, and then distributes it in order to save the ship of state from sinking into oblivion. ...

Defending America’s Democracy? Here’s How to Fund it!

By Rick Osbourne · 3 years ago

In the wake of Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, his totally unproven claims of election fraud, the January 6th insurrection, and in the midst of Republican attacks on voting rights across the nation, there’s also ...

There’s Only One Way Out of America’s Current Economic Crisis!

By Rick Osbourne · 3 years ago

Let’s start with the obvious. America cannot have a legitimate political democracy (a government of the people, by the people, and for the people) when so much wealth/power is concentrated in the hands of so ...

Having to Choose Between a Job You Hate and Starvation?

By Rick Osbourne · 3 years ago

Have you ever wondered what would happen if working-class Americans could AVOID HAVING TO CHOOSE BETWEEN accepting a job that’s mind-numbingly repetitious, mechanical, boring, demeaning, unfulfilling, as well as life-negating, AND being unable to feed ...