Time was when your family could make something or buy the somethings your neighbors made, hang a sign on the front of your house and enough neighbors and visitors would walk by and step into your mom-and-pop store that you could make a decent living being a “merchant”.

The Popular Capitalist View

A key part of the Popular Capitalist program is to reduce the cost of living. A lower cost of providing the necessities puts the rudimentary task of paying the cost of sovereignty more easily within the reach of the political economies of regions with modest resources. This allows those political economies and thus most political economies to offer its citizens opportunities to reach beyond mere survival and build capital that will benefit their communities for years to come. Also, a lower cost of the living beyond survival makes those efforts at building capital more attainable.

The workers built this state, the country,

Not the unions. Not some party.

Not some distant calling in the wind.

And yet another law

And another law where the sun don’t shine

Where the lawyers oughtn’t be

About things the lawyering can’t fathom

As Jesse might say, Amen!

“A legislation of a misconception.”

Amen, brother! Amen, again!

Created by Those in Power

Those are the words that are missing

From the end of the phrase on the news.

Echo advertisement nestlings:

“A bad break has us chirping the blues.”

The Popular Capitalist View

In my last column, I discussed education through the filter of the perennial New Jersey political theme of property taxes. There I had slain the dragon, at least to my own satisfaction, so that I can return to the subject again without further acknowledgment of what remains a pressing issue for politicians who do not bother to read the Johnsonville Press despite my pointing them to it on numerous occasions. This column is therefore directed to those of us who find more to education than the uninteresting problem of how to pay for it.

The Popular Capitalist View

The election of the next New Jersey Governor is fast upon us with only one real issue being addressed, that of property taxes and the public education system which it currently funds.  Each of the three major candidates – and by “major” I mean that they are on the ballot and on television – has taken up a predictable strategic position on this issue.

The Popular Capitalist View

There is a lot of confusion in our business world about what is or is not personal which seems, to this observer, designed to misplace our sympathies.  A deliberate legal fiction that a corporation be treated like a person, so that it gain some benefit thereby, has been accepted as fact.

The rushing never fruitful
In its speed from here to there
Makes there so much more distant
And this place never here…