The very wealthy on Wall Street and their political arm, the Neoconservative Republican Party got us into this horrific Recession. Teachers didn’t do it. Nurses didn’t do it. The poor who wanted to own homes and were sold fake mortgages by unscrupulous real estate mortgage brokers didn’t do it. Wall Street, with the active participation [...]
Entries Tagged as 'jobs'
Tax the Rich and Balance the Budget.
June 25th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, jobs, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
Tags: cutting government·cutting government spending·cutting the military budget·improving Medicare·increasing taxes on corporations·increasing taxes on the rich·Right Wing Neocon policies·saving Medicare and Medicaid·saving Social Security·tax breaks for the rich·taxing the rich
The Neocon Republican Candidates—A Rogues Gallery
June 15th, 2011 · Comments Off · Health Care, jobs, Lobbying, Politics, taxes, Wall Street
What a bunch of losers we saw in the first Republican debate. It was shallow, obfuscating and ignored reality. We’ll start off by saying that we can’t even add Herman Cain and Ron Paul to a serious discussion. Cain is a total zero and Paul, as we know from what he has said in the [...]
Tags: Herman Cain·Michelle Bachmann·Mit Romney·Neocon Candidates for President·Newt Gingrich·Republicaan debate·Republican candidates for President·Republican debate in New Hampshire·Ric Santorum·Ron Paul·Tim Pawlenty
Let’s Talk About the National Budget.
May 21st, 2011 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, energy, jobs, Politics, taxes, Wall Street, wars and militarism
Phony baloney. Just like Walker in Wisconsin, the talk about “austerity” is a bunch of rich white men talking bull shit about what needs to be done. We don’t need austerity. Not the kind the Republicans are talking about. We need prosperity. You see, the problem with the United States right now is that we [...]
Tags: austerity federal budget·budget cuts·Medicare·raising taxes on the rich·Social Security·tax cuts·taxes
Truth and Consequences
May 18th, 2011 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Health Care, jobs, Politics, taxes
From time to time we may begin to drop in a little digest of Right Wing lies and other assorted items you may be able to use to set the record straight. Why Are Some Companies and States Getting Waivers from the Health Care Reform Bill? Mona Charen, a Right Wing writer for the Right [...]
The Neocon Republican No-jobs Plan
March 26th, 2011 · Comments Off · jobs, Politics
In the United States, right now, March 2011, we have about 111 million people gainfully employed. About 6.9 million of those are employed part time, that is, less than 35 hours a week, but looking for full time work. Another 6 million are unemployed and looking for full time work. So the unemployed looking for [...]
Tags: jobs programs·national debt·Neocon budget cuts·Neocon Republican jobs plan·new jobs·Republican jobs report·State budget cuts·unemployment figures
Why Governor Walker and the Neocons Hate Unions
March 12th, 2011 · Comments Off · Education, jobs, Politics, taxes
The Neocon Republicans believe that government should intrude in our lives when it comes to religion and abortion and tax cuts for the rich and guns not only for hunting but for hunting people clearly dislike programs to put people to work. The reason they don’t want to put people to work is their Faustian [...]
Tags: attacks against teachers·education bashing·Neocon fiscal policies·Neocon governors·New neoconservative governors·New Republican governors·Tea Party Governors·teacher bashing·union-busting
Neocon Strategy at Work…From Wisconsin and Ohio to Washington D.C.
March 9th, 2011 · Comments Off · jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism
Here is the Neoconservative Republican political strategy in a nutshell: put your people in a good financially position. When in political power, spend as much government money as you possibly can. Take your hands off the economy and let it drive itself into a ditch, while allowing the top financial people to escape with piles [...]
Tags: John Kasich·Mitch Daniels·Neocon union-busting·Republican governors busting unions·Republican legislation to break up unions·Rick Perry·Rick Scott·Scott Walker
Union-busting in Wisconsin
February 18th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Human Rights, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism
There is a strong game plan abroad in the land to bust unions. Most unions these days are for government workers. So the new Neocon Republican governors are out to break those unions, in Ohio, and New Jersey and Florida, and most prominently in Wisconsin. Governor Scott Walker the Governor of Wisconsin only since November [...]
Tags: attacks on public employee unions·Charles Koch·Governor Chris Christie·Governor John Kasich·Governor Rick Scott·Governor Scott Walker·health benefits·Karl Rove·Koch Industries·Neocons·penalizing teachers and government workers.·public employee unions penalized·state deficits·teacher unions·teachers·union-busting
Telling Lies on Sunday
January 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off · jobs, Politics
Is it more of a sin to tell a lie on Sunday, the “Lord’s Day” than on any other day? Apparently not for Congress. They seem to have gone completely off the rails. They apparently think that “God,” that ephemeral entity that laid down rules thousands of years ago but who allowed humans to handle [...]
Tags: Dr. Stephen Carter·Meet the Press·Neocon filibusters·Neocon lies·Neocon obstructionism·Neocons·Republian filibusters·Senator Lindsay Graham·Senator Pat Toomey
Glenn Beck Attacks Unions
October 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Capitalism, Economics, jobs, Labor, Media, Politics, taxes
Glenn Beck, the supposedly middle class hero, turns out to be a hollowed out Tin Man. Lately, we noticed that this self-style man of the people likes to attack unions, who are merely organizations of people…not hugely wealthy individuals or giant corporations…who assemble together to get good wages for the hard work that they perform. [...]
Tags: Add new tag·Americans for Prosperity·Employee Free Choice Act·Glenn Beck·jobs·Koch family·Neoconservatives·Right-to-Work states·unemployment·unions
One Nation Rally. October 2, 2010, the National Mall, Washington D.C.
September 30th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Capitalism, Culture, Human Rights, jobs, Media, Politics, Populism
If you can attend, it is this weekend. It will be the biggest event on the Mall in many years, a very large number of organizations, including the many various state chapters of the Democratic Party will be busing in people to the Mall for this assembly. It is both significant and also important that as [...]
Tags: Democratic Rally in Washington on Oct 2·One Nation March on Washington on Oct 2nd·One Nation Rally. October 2·Progressive Rally in Washington on Oct 2·Union rally in Washington on October 2
Politics: Winning in Class Warfare — Part I
September 15th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Culture, Human Rights, jobs, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
In the early evening of a summer night in New York City, or Dallas or Los Angeles, or Miami, there is a slow, quiet movement of long, dark-windowed vehicles. They move quietly to centers of activity where bright lights outline the architecture and gowned women and men in expensive suits emerge, smiling and laughing. The [...]
Tags: austerity·billiionaires·Class warfare·Medicare·Neoconservatism·obstructionism·Social Security·tax breaks for the wealthy·taxes·the rich
On Taxes and Coming Out of Recession
August 24th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, jobs, Politics
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 [...]
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, jobs, Labor, Media, Politics
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, jobs, Politics, Populism
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 [...]
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