Do you want a job? Do you need a job or know anyone who does? Do you think that there are fewer jobs than are necessary for the workforce right now?
Sounds stupid, doesn’t it? Sounds ridiculous. Apparently not to Senators John Kyl of Arizona and Sentor Jim Bunning of Kentucky. Bunning held up unemployment insurance [...]
Entries Tagged as 'jobs'
Unemployment, Job Creation, and Back-of-the-Envelope Economics
March 10th, 2010 · No Comments · General, Health Care, Politics, jobs
Tags: Bush recession·domestic manufacturing·Economics·health care reform·job creation·jobs·national debt·recession·Social Security and Medicare·unemployment
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
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
Why Neoconservatives Vote Against Jobs.
February 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics, jobs
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 [...]
Tags: GOP fililbusters·GOP obstruction·jobs·Neoconservative obstruction·racism·Republican obstruction
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
Lessons for the “Tea Baggers” on the Bush Recession and Republican Aid to the Rich
December 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, International affairs, Politics
In November of 2008, while Barack Obama was winning an election, George W. Bush was already planning his exit. In addition to the two wars he was leaving us, the Bush Administration was preparing a surprise, a giant drop in the economy. Republicans in Wall Street had engineered speculative financial instruments based on derivatives tied [...]
Tags: Bush administration·deficit·Economic meltdown·jobs·national debt·Neoconservatives·obstruction·tea parties·the Great Recession·unemployment
A Plan for Jobs and Ending the Recession
December 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Politics, jobs
There has been talk recently–finally–about creating jobs. The talk has been about using some of the TARP money to create jobs in various sectors. As a reminder, the TARP funds were those funds used from the Treasury to shore up certain banks and other investment firms plus AIG, which was ostensibly the only insurance firm. [...]
Tags: creating new jobs·economy·Geithner·green jobs·jobs·President Obama·right wing republicans·stimulus·the Stimulus plan·using TARP for jobs
The Economy, the Stimulus and Coming Out of the Recession
October 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Politics
Economists like to say that the current recession began in December of 2007. But things had not been going well for the average American for some time before that. The recession only made things worse for the average American household. Long before the recession began, things had been in a gradual decline for the average [...]
Tags: economy·income inequality·incomes·jobs·recession·stimulus·wages
The Two Big Issues: Jobs and Health Care Reform.
October 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Health Care, Politics
Sunday in October and Congress is back and pundits are shouting over one another on the morning talk shows. Even married political-pundit couples who sit before cameras and the husband says something and the wife contradicts him, regardless of whether what she has to say is true or based on earthly reality. It proves that [...]
Tags: Economics·free trade.·Health Care·health care reform·jobs·Politics·tariffs
New Energy Jobs Coming From Either Democrats or Republicans
October 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Politics, Science & Technology
Yesterday the Democratic Senate announced its new “Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act.” Soon after a group of GOP Senators discussed their similar legislation, with the differences in the two being what you would imagine. Clean energy means different things to the two political parties.
The Democratic proposal involves the development of new clean energy sources, similar [...]
Tags: Congress·conservation·democrats·energy·environment·green jobs·jobs·Republicans
The Choice Between Neoconservative and Progressive Becomes Clearer.
September 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Health Care, Politics
There is no mystery about the difficult circumstances in which we find the American economy. Since 1981, when Ronald Reagan cut income taxes for the top bracket, multi-millionaires, from 70% at the top marginal rate, down to 28%, the country has run very large deficits every year. We have been running deficits in the $200 billion [...]
Tags: Add new tag·Bush administration·Democrat·economy·Health Care·jobs·Neoconservative·Progressive·stimulus