Jobs, jobs, jobs. It is the mantra of the Liberals. It may also be the mantra of anyone who is out of work and would like to simply earn a living. Seems too much for the Neoconservative Neanderthals to understand.
There is one thing that the Liberals and Progressives must lodge firmly in their consciousness [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Economics'
Who Created the Recession and Who Can End It
March 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Health Care, Politics, jobs
Tags: depression·foreclosure·health care lobby·jobs·Neocon Republican obstruction·recession·unemployment
Beware the Ides of March and Neocon Budget Scare Tactics
March 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Politics
We are going through one of those periods right now where the Neocon anti-middle class propaganda machine is cranking out trash day and night. The result of course is that the weirdos crawl out into the daylight where you can see them and read their illiterate scrawling in every electronic blip on the Internet.
Of [...]
Tags: deficits·national debt·Neoconservatives·scare tactics·stimuli·tax cuts
The Next American Revolution
February 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Health Care, Media, Politics, wars and militarism
It is time for all Americans to stop what they are doing and think about the future. Your future has already been mapped out for you by a relatively small percentage of Americans, who want to eliminate the middle class. The Neoconservatives, on a mission for the very wealthy and huge international corporations, have the [...]
Tags: Bush·Bush tax cuts·deficits·health care reform·how to pay for deficits·Iraq war·lobbyists·Medicare·national debt·Neoconservative propaganda·Neoconservative think tanks·Neoconservatives·Reagan·Reagan tax cuts·Social Secuirty·tax cuts·tax reform·wars
The Grim State of the Nation
February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Economics, Health Care, Politics, energy, jobs
As we are about to enter the third month of 2010, the nation is in its worst financial and economic condition since, perhaps, 1939. We have large-scale unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcies, homelessness, hunger, lack of living essentials, and many working families with huge credit card debt. The Neoconservative Republicans who control the Republican Party, have [...]
Tags: clean energy·economy·energy·food banks·Health Care·health care lobby·health care reform·homelessness·hunger·jobs·reconciliation·Rupert Murdoch·stimulus·Supreme Court·tea parties·tent cities·unemployment·unemployment insurance
Health Industry Greed and Democratic Reform
February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Health Care, Politics
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….
Yes, indeed. It was the best of times for the health care industry in 2009. And the worst of times for their customers. And it continues in 2010.
Let’s get right to it.
Wellpoint, UnitedHealth Group, Cigna, Aetna and Humana…the top five health insurers, earned [...]
Tags: Democratic health care plan·health care debate·health care fraud·health care lobby·health care reform·health insurance industry·health insurance industry greed·House health care plan·Obamacare·President's health care plan·Republican health care plan·Right Wing obstruction·Senate health care plan
Who Is Going to Pay the National Debt?
February 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Politics
There was a wonderful line once in an old movie. A very savvy and skilled old billiards player, a hustler, was about to take the money from a slick and smart-alecky young man who had just ridden into town. And as the hustler chalked his cue stick, and leaned over the table to take [...]
Tags: Deficit reduction·Neocon programs for deficit reduction·Pete Peterson·Social Security and Medicare·tax cuts·tax increases
Budget Crisis Commission: Coming for Your Social Security and Medicare
February 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Economics, Politics
In Washington today, a whole hall full of white-shirts and rimless glasses sat at attention while the gurus of fiscal policy told us that we need to cut our biggest areas of expenditure—Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid—in order to save us from disaster that they make sound worse than the Spanish Inquisition.
The Peterson-Pew Budget [...]
Tags: budget commimssion·cuts in Social Security·cutting Medicare·national debt·Peterson-Pew Budget Commission
The Economy Is In Big Trouble—Part II, Our Diminished Future.
February 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Politics
To understand your life in the future, you must understand that what happened in the last 8 years, particularly in the last year of the Bush Administration, as described in Part I, is irreversible. We cannot go back and sue all those Tom DeLays or Dick Cheneys, or even whatever number of Democrats joined in [...]
Tags: Bush recession·corporate campaign contributions·deficits·Economics·future of the economy·health care lobby·health care reform·jobs·Neocon obstructionism·Supreme court and corporate campaign contributions·the economy·the national debt·unemployment
The American Economy In Big Trouble–Part I, Background
February 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Politics
A little history. In 2000, George W. Bush was elected President of the United States and took over in January 2001. Within days of taking office, Richard Cheney had already held a meeting concerning energy, which to an oilman means oil. He had a meeting on drilling for oil. Not here in the United States, [...]
Tags: economic recovery·jobs·the Bush economic collapse·the economy·the future of the economy
David Brooks and Neocon Advice to the Elderly
February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · 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 [...]
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 · No Comments · Economics, Politics, jobs
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 · No Comments · Courts and the Law, Culture, Economics, Politics, jobs
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
It’s About Jobs…and the Economy…and How We Got Here!
January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Politics, jobs
Americans need jobs. Yes, you can say that the Gross National Product has increased a certain amount or fallen back a certain amount. You can say that our exports have risen as a percentage of our Gross National Product. You can say that the index of home values has risen against the year-over-year index. You [...]
Tags: Add new tag·Bush tax cuts·government spending·jobs·manufacturing·national debt·stimulus·the economy
Look For the Union Legacy.
January 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Economics, jobs
America is a society that is governed by the principle of majority rule. In a free society, some form of majority rule is the most logical application of governance. For centuries, workers have organized under the same principles of majority rule in order to use the collective power of the group to create greater leverage [...]
Tags: anti-union·FDR and Unions·National Labor Relations Board·Reagan and unions·strikebreakers·strikes·union avoidance·union organizing·unions
Wall Street Just Doesn’t Get It!
January 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Politics
There is no question that the financial industry is out to lunch and they have been for years. The Chamber of Commerce, on CNBC, literally came out and likened the angry statement by the President and the new legislation that will regulate banks…to an Alice in Wonderland moment. They think that the President and the [...]
Tags: Federal Reserve·financial community·jobs and the recession·Kudlow·Roskam·Wall Street·wall street bonuses