It is no secret that the Neoconservative Republicans and their friends on talk radio are against job creation. They voted 100%, every single one, against the Stimulus bill, the $787 billion jobs bill that has already created 2 million jobs. They voted overwhelmingly in late 2008 against even the Bush Administration’s attempt to push funds [...]
Entries from October 28th, 2011
Why Neoconservatives Vote Against Jobs.
February 5th, 2010 · Comments Off · jobs, Politics
Tags: GOP fililbusters·GOP obstruction·jobs·Neoconservative obstruction·racism·Republican obstruction
We Can’t All “Just Get Along.” Here’s Why.
February 4th, 2010 · Comments Off · Media, Politics
Our political system is broken. It didn’t happen accidentally. It was deliberate and it has been happening for a long time, gradually, methodically. Corporations have taken all their chips and gone all-in with the Neoconservative Republicans. And the Neocons are now 100% for corporations. They are the arm of corporations in Congress. Take the Republican [...]
Tags: legislation·lobbyists·neocon political ideology·Politics·Right Wing
David Brooks and Neocon Advice to the Elderly
February 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off · Culture, Economics, General, Politics
“There you go again…” as a famous “B” movie actor once memorably said…memorable because he happened to be President at the time. Oh yes, we really did have an actor as President. But he was also a union president at one time. Granted, it was a union of actors, but he was elected. One of [...]
Tags: AARP·elderly income·Health Care·income inequality·Medicare·national debt·Neoconservative budget planning·retirement·Right Wing·Social Security cuts·tax cuts·tax hikes·tax increases
The Truth About the National Debt
February 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, jobs, Politics
Attention: propaganda groups! Neocons to propaganda groups: Come in Please! Attention! Let’s distract the Helots, the Tea Baggers. Let’s send them to the opposite end of the economic spectrum, from the recovery and the need for jobs to the huge deficit so that they will not really understand what is happening in this country and [...]
Tags: Bush Deficit·Clinton surpluses·deficits·national debt·Reagan deficit·surplus·tax cuts for the rich
We Need Unions Today More Than Ever.
February 1st, 2010 · Comments Off · Courts and the Law, Culture, Economics, jobs, Politics
Under the Bush Administration, unions found themselves once again under siege. The last 29 years have been a battle against corporate lobbyists, Right-Wing radio commentators, and congressmen-turned-lobbyists. Many in the public, including many Democrats have forgotten the debt we all owe to the literally dead and wounded union warriors in the long struggle for the [...]
Tags: anti-union activists·Bush Labor Department·corporate lobbyists·Elaine Chao·unions