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…
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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…
WCE: On Borders’s Last Day of Business, a Farewell and Fuck You to the Poorly Run Book Slinger
Let me explain exactly what that title means: On the one hand I will absolutely miss being able to go into the second largest book retailer in the country and wade through an ocean of celebrity memoirs to get to a handful of quality fiction books. On the other hand, this one time book behemoth…
Working Class Economist: Introducing Brody Incorporated
Last week, Mitt Romney said corporations are people. So this week I decide to formally declare myself a corporation. I will now be known as Brody Incorporated. I will pay no taxes. Particularly if I have a very rich year as the more I make, the less I pay. I will actually be GIVEN corporate…
Working Class Economist: Why the Tea Party is Happy to Get Downgraded
Sometimes I enjoy impossible tasks like squeezing blood from a turnip. So today I attempt the near impossible task of trying to make Standard & Poors (that stalwart watchdog company that was totally on top of the mortgage crisis and has never had any questionable calls before…sarcasm dripping from computer screen) credit downgrade sexy. Well,…