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    On Taxes and Coming Out of Recession

    August 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitalism, Economics, Politics, jobs

    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 [...]

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    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 [...]

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    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 [...]

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    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 [...]

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    Wall Street Journal: Unemployment Benefits Are Bad for America

    July 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Media, Politics, Wall Street

    In a recent article entitled “Stimulating Unemployment” the Wall Street Journal inadvertently showed its true colors. Black. They would like us all to wear black as a symbol of the death of the Middle Class which they are applauding and encouraging at every turn.
    It is quite (more than) probable that it is the work [...]

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    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 [...]

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    “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 [...]

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    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 [...]

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    Using Public Jobs to Stimulate Private Enterprise

    May 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Populism, energy, jobs

    During the Presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama said he would spend $210 to create 5 million jobs. This was something like 500,000 jobs a year over ten years. In green jobs and in construction related to green jobs and infrastructure. And that’s nice. But we need 5 million jobs now. NOW.
    And here’s how [...]

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    Jobs, Wages and the Urgent Need for Unions

    May 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Labor, Politics, Populism, jobs

    Where are the jobs? And where is new union legislation? We need both and we need them now.
    We have a minimum of 15 million people out of work. We have an economy that created 230,000 jobs in March and 290,000 in April and unemployment still went from 9.7% to 9.9%. But what about [...]

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    Who Created the Recession and Who Can End It

    March 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Health Care, Politics, jobs

    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 [...]

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    Unemployment, Job Creation, and Back-of-the-Envelope Economics

    March 10th, 2010 · No Comments · General, Health Care, Politics, jobs

    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 [...]

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    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 [...]

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    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 [...]

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    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, [...]

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