Last month, I introduced a new segment to Working Class Economist called “Rich Asshole of the Month.” The thinking behind it is that just generally calling out rich people isn’t doing any good because the 1 percent gets to say “Well, I might be bad but I’m not the Koch Brothers bad,” and calling out…
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Working Class Economist: Another Positive Economic Trend, “Insourcing”
No sooner do I write today’s earlier article about “Cash Mobs” when a second positive economic occurrence transpires: insourcing. [If you were superstitious you might want to avoid black cats and indoor umbrella openings for the next couple days because something suspiciously uplifting is going on here.] For those unfamiliar with insourcing (or general wordplay)…
Working Class Economist: Celebrating “Cash Mobs,” Finally Something Viral Goes Useful
So much bad news comes out of the economy, that sometimes it can be easy to miss something positive. Coincidentally, so much useless news comes out of the internet (where a guy getting punched in the balls and his baby laughing at it will draw more viewers than any news oriented blogs like this one…
Everything Working Class Economist Has Learned in the Last Year
As I pointed out yesterday, this marks the one year anniversary of Alabama Liberal. And what better way to celebrate than to look back on the last year and detail what Working Class Economist has learned… Lesson 1: Rich people suck. Lesson 2: That is all. No, but in all seriousness there were just a…
Working Class Economist: Mitt Romney Admits He “Doesn’t Think” About the Very Poor
At the risk of turning this once diverse feature into “Why Mitt Romney Sucks This Week,” it’s yet another week in the presidential campaign (as it will be for the next nine months) and disappointingly brings another fuck-up from the Mitt Romney campaign. [With a candidate like this it really speaks to how unpopular Gingrich…
Working Class Economist: This Month’s Rich Bastard is…Mitt Romney
Today brings the start of what I hope to be one of the new monthly features inserted into Alabama Liberal. On Monday I will reveal the site’s first “Book of the Month Club” selection and today I’m revealing, you guessed it, “This Month’s Rich Bastard.” So who better to be January’s rich bastard than the…
Mitt Romney, Serial Killer Capitalist?
For those that haven’t heard, Stephen Colbert has released a hilarious attack ad on GOP front runner (and competitor in South Carolina) Mitt Romney. In it, he quotes Romney himself as saying “Corporations are people” and then remembers his time at Bain Capital where Romney killed companies. Thus, Romney is a serial killer…Anyway, watch the…
Working Class Economist: Got Any Get Rich Quick Schemes?
Even though last week was technically the year’s first, this is our first real week here at Working Class Economist and so we’d like to start it off right, which is to say: rich. People make many New Year’s Resolutions and Delusions of Betterment from losing twenty pounds to finally taking that cycling class they’ve…
Occupy Y’all Street, Why Alabama SHOULD Be Protesting Too
On Working Class Economist, we like to cover an economic issue by what it means for the people CNBC never talks about: the majority of Americans, and by that I mean people making less than 35,000 a year. And no where is more working class (or desperately in need of clarification on economic issues) than…
Working Class Economist: Why Alabama’s Fiscal Conservatism Attracts Illegal Immigrants
I think Alabama’s new, ultra-radical illegal immigration legislation is stupid, a political stunt, and a P.R. nightmare for a state already struggling against a ridiculously intolerant image. That being said, something about the legislation struck me as funny and that’s because something about the attitudes of people in Alabama that don’t like illegal immigrants strikes…
Now What? (Life Post-Grad): Why Baby Boomers Don’t “Get” Occupy Wall Street
Today we have an absolute first for the site. “A cash money giveaway?” No. “A drawing to win a trip to the Bahamas?” Not quite. “A dollar off coupon at Arby’s?” Woah, woah, woah, my last name’s not Rockefeller over here. No, today is the very first time I have ever posted/linked to something I…
Working Class Economist: How To Be a Millionaire…
…by 60. Okay, so maybe that’s cheating a little bit as no one wants to wait that long. Well, honestly that’s too bad. If you want my list of how to become a millionaire in a month, here it is…1. Buy a winning a lottery ticket, 2. Go back to the fetus stage of your…
Working Class Economist: If You Like Social Security and Medicare, VOTE Like You Do
I’ll keep this brief because maybe the big mistake plaguing liberal groups like MoveOn.org in their attempt to change people’s minds is that they talk too much. I mean, if you really don’t know which party is protecting Medicare and which party isn’t, then you probably aren’t willing to read seven paragraphs or even anything…