This is a short piece about taxes and jobs. One would hope that this blog is not the only place where there is a serious call for all Americans to begin to call, write and even assemble and march to the offices of our elected officials to lobby for for jobs. We need jobs desperately [...]
Entries Tagged as 'jobs'
On Taxes and Coming Out of Recession
August 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitalism, Economics, Politics, jobs
Tags: Bush tax cuts for the rich·deficits·economy·job creation·jobs·national debt·restoring the economy
Creating Jobs in the United States
August 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Labor, Media, Politics, jobs
There are several problems with the current jobs situation and those are in addition to the fact that one out of approximately 8 people you see walking down the street is either unemployed or has only a part-time job. Of course, for some people, the idea of a part-time job is difficult to imagine, as [...]
Tags: Bush Free Trade and Employment policies·IT·jobs·Neocon outsourcing policies·outsourcing jobs to foreign workers·outsourcing to India and China in 2010
A Populist Plan to Restore the Economy
August 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Capitalism, Economics, Politics, Populism, jobs
This will short and to the point. This is a simple plan to handle a simple problem.
Yes, it is not as complicated by a factor of 1000 as the Neoconservative Republicans in Congress and all their Right Wing radio commentators and corporate-sponsored lobbying “think tanks” like Cato, Heritage, AEI and others too numerous to list…would [...]
Tags: a populist plan·an economic plan to restore the economy·creating jobs·jobs·Neocon economics·Neoconservatism·Politics·Populism·restoring the economy·the economy·the Great Bush Recession·the recession·unemployment
Neocons Trying to Split the Middle Class
July 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Economics, Politics, jobs, taxes
Divide and conquer…that’s their motto. As ancient as the Romans and as current as the Rovians. The Neoconservative plan is to pit the American Middle Class against itself. Those on Social Security and unemployment insurance will campaign to keep those vital income streams alive and the Neoconservatives will work against them trying to have them [...]
Tags: economic expansion·jobs·Neocon austerity·paygo·the budget deficit·unemployment insurance
The Current Common Wisdom Is Wrong
July 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Lobbying, Media, Wall Street, jobs
We often refer to the “common wisdom” in society, the general knowledge passed on by word of mouth locally, regionally and eventually expressed in print or on television…and after which people say…oh, yeah, that makes sense.
The fact is that the common wisdom often works because the underlying rules are pretty clear in most situations. [...]
Tags: common wisdom on the economy·cutbacks in social programs·economic austerity·Economics·Neocons obstructing the economy·stimulating the economy·stimulus
Expansion, Not Austerity
July 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Human Rights, Lobbying, Media, Politics, Wall Street, jobs, taxes, wars and militarism
We now have a Presidential Commission to make recommendations about the Reagan-Bush-Bush $13 trillion deficit that was created by cutting revenues in half with tax cuts for the rich, while continuing Republican spending and starting two wars.
Of course, it is an absurd idea that we must all gather in hushed tones around former Reagan-Republican [...]
Tags: Corporatism·neocon·Neocons·obstruction of unemployment benefits·Scott Brown·the Neocon Party·the Peterson-Pew Commission·unemployment benefits
Raise Taxes or Cut Entitlements–You Decide.
July 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Economics, Politics, jobs, taxes
You should see one particular chart from the Congressional budget office.
Here’s what it says:
The lowest two quintiles (lowest 40%) of wage earners averaged $17,400 in 1979.
The Top One percent of wage earners averaged $167,500 in 1979.
By 2007, the 27th year of the Neoconservative Era, the bottom two quintiles made $20,500. That’s an [...]
Tags: CEO pay·Corporatism·cuts in Medicare spending·cutting taxes·cutting the national debt·deficit spending·entitlements·government deficits·raising taxes·Social Security and Medicare·the national debt·the top 1% of income earners
Fixing the Economy and the Budget–for the People
June 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitalism, Economics, Politics, Wall Street, jobs, taxes
It’s wonk city, folks. If you don’t have any patience, don’t read on. But if you don’t read on, don’t blame us if the Peterson-Pew Commission takes your retirement and your medicine and leaves you with $5.00 gasoline in three years.
Look, finance really isn’t complicated. If you want to work out the financing for [...]
Tags: Bush's national debt·Clinton economy·deficits·increases in the national debt·job creation·job losses to outsourcing abroad·manufacturing·structural deficits·tariffs·trillion-dollar deficits
Hypocrisy, Thy Name is Ryan!
June 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitalism, Economics, Politics, jobs
Oh boy! Ohboyoboyoboyoboy! Just when you think you have heard every lie, every phony claim, every stinking innuendo, every slavish following of the superstitiously silly, wretchedly excessive Rich Right Wing of the Oligarchic Obstructive Republican Party…you get another surprise.
Saturday morning, June 26, 2010, the Republicans, and their new puppet, Paul Ryan, an embarrassment to [...]
Tags: cutting the budget·deficit spending·Democratic budget·Medicare reimbursements for doctors·national debt·Representative Paul Ryan·Republican budgets·Republican response·Republican spending·Senator Scott Brown·unemployment insurance
Don’t Think “Green Energy;” Think Green Jobs.
June 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Economics, Politics, energy, jobs, taxes
We have a couple of pieces of legislation in that great frozen melting pot called a Senate that deserve your attention and, frankly, the passage of which deserve a march on Washington. The Great Bush-Cheney Energy Deregulation Oil Spill and the lack of meaningful jobs in a sputtering and failing economy dictate that we look [...]
Tags: alternative sources of energy·clean energy programs·energy independence·green energy jobs·inheritance taxes·jobs·unemployment
Budget Cuts–Coming After Your Social Security
June 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitalism, Economics, Lobbying, Media, Politics, Wall Street, jobs, taxes, wars and militarism
It is time to pay attention to the Peterson Commission. And you had better pay attention and tell your friends and have them tell their friends. Because the Peterson Commission is coming to get your Social Security. Not yours…yours. Yes, you there, the relatively young person who is about to start gathering funds to retire.
Unless [...]
Tags: budget deficits·government cost-cutting·the economy·the Great Recession·the Peterson-Pew Commission·The Presdent's Commission on Reducing the Federal Budget Deficit
“Please, Sir, May I Have Another!”
June 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Labor, Lobbying, Media, Politics, jobs, taxes
The Republicans in Congress have their paddles out and are ready, if we let them, to make us walk the line again, while the Neocon frat boys in the Chamber of Commerce, in Congress and on Wall Street deliver a good spanking like the one they handed the country in 2007-2008.
Yes, these cartoon [...]
Tags: Corporatism·jobs·Neocons·Neoconservative obstruction·political gamesmanship·Right Wing obstruction·tax cuts·unemployment insurance
Here’s How Right Wing Obstruction Affects You Personally.
June 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Lobbying, Politics, Wall Street, energy, jobs, taxes
Life is not a newsreel, someone once said. It is not a sound bite. It is not the mere reporting of Republican Reich Wing obstruction.
It is real life–life and death, injury and loss, jobs and unemployment, homes and homelessness, wealth and poverty.
There are 290 bills passed by the House of Representatives pending in [...]
Tags: Democratic legislation·House of Representatives·Nancy Pelosi·Neocon obstruction·Republican obstruction·Senate filibusters·Senate obstruction·Senator McConnell
State of the Nation — June 2010
June 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Lobbying, Media, Politics, energy, jobs, taxes
Where are we?
We’ve got a bunch of tea party nuts…let’s be frank…running around saying that the country is becoming a fascist sate and another segment of the same nuts or even those same nuts themselves contradicting what they just said by saying we’re becoming Communist or Socialist.
It’s difficult even to explain, let alone [...]
Tags: Corporatism·jobs·Liberal and progressive legislation·Lobbying·Neoconservative obstruction·Republican lies·Senate Republican obstruction·taxes·unions
Greed
May 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Wall Street, jobs, taxes
“The time has come” the walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes–and ships–and sealing wax–
Of cabbages–and kings–
And why the sea is boiling hot–
And whether pigs have wings.”
–Lewis Carroll, “The Walrus and the Carpenter.”
Ah, yes, let’s distract from the abstract. Let’s diffuse, distort, dissemble and dismember our rationality. Let’s not look at what has happened over [...]
Tags: Bush tax cuts·deficits·Economics·government spending·income inequality·national debt·Peterson-Pew Commission·reducing the national debt·securing Social Security and Medicare