We need exports and imports. We need jobs. And we need more jobs than can be provided by exports. In other words,at a very minimum we need net exports. But we don’t have them. We have net imports. Here’s the problem. In 1993, we signed into law the North Amreican Free Trade Agreement. It broke [...]
Entries from October 28th, 2011
A Tariff Policy to Create Jobs
November 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Human Rights, jobs, Politics, Populism, taxes, The Budget
Tags: Corporate Greed·free trade fallacies·imports from China·making things in China·Smoot-Hawley and its effect on the Great Depression·tariffs·tariffs to create jobs·the China game·The Greed of the Very Rich·trade deficits
Wake Up, Republicans, Before It Is Too Late!
November 10th, 2011 · Comments Off · Economics, Health Care, Politics, Populism, taxes
The recent elections have brought some emotional and some real political relief to a beleaguered Middle Class, but we need to point out a few things that MUST happen or our society will literally disintegrate. For so many years now, Republicans have been listening to a siren song of false promises and false accusations that [...]
Tags: Bush-Cheney phony tax cut assertions·CBO report on tax cuts and reduced revenues·Douglass Holtz-Eakin·health care repeal·Koch sponsorship of the Tea Party·LIes about health care reform·Republican deficits·Republican health insurance industry sponsors·Republican propaganda on health care repeal·tax cuts do not raise revenues
How Fred Upton and Whirlpool Devastated Arkansas and Michigan.
November 7th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, jobs, Labor, Lobbying, Politics, Populism
Large corporations are often so huge that it is difficult to get one’s head around their size and their influence. General Electric, for example, has 304, 000 employees world wide. Many of their divisions manufacture things overseas for sale to other countries. Only about 133,000 employees are still employed here in the United States. Most [...]
Tags: Al Pscholka·Benton Harbor and Whirlpool Corporation·Fred Upton·Ric Snyder takeover of Benton Harbor·Whirlpool Corporation·Whirlpool layoffs·Whirlpool layoffs in Fort Smith Arkansas