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 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, jobs, Politics
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
Neocons Trying to Split the Middle Class
July 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Economics, jobs, Politics, 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
Wall Street Journal: Unemployment Benefits Are Bad for America
July 20th, 2010 · Comments Off · 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 [...]
Tags: Conservative obstructionism·Fox News Channel·jobs·Ruper Murdoch·the Wall Street Journal·unemployment benefits·unemployment insurance
Don’t Think “Green Energy;” Think Green Jobs.
June 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Economics, energy, jobs, Politics, 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
“Please, Sir, May I Have Another!”
June 11th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, jobs, Labor, Lobbying, Media, Politics, 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 characters, [...]
Tags: Corporatism·jobs·Neocons·Neoconservative obstruction·political gamesmanship·Right Wing obstruction·tax cuts·unemployment insurance
State of the Nation — June 2010
June 4th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, energy, jobs, Lobbying, Media, Politics, 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
Using Public Jobs to Stimulate Private Enterprise
May 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Economics, energy, jobs, Populism
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 we [...]
Tags: developing private industry jobs·economic development·economic recovery·economic stimulus·growing the economy·jobs·manufacturing in the U.S.·public jobs·stimulus
Jobs, Wages and the Urgent Need for Unions
May 8th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Economics, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism
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 the [...]
Tags: Employee Free Choice Act·job creation·jobs·Labor·unemployment·union avoidance consultants·union organizing·union-busting·unions·wage restrictions·wages
Who Created the Recession and Who Can End It
March 15th, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, Health Care, jobs, Politics
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 [...]
Tags: depression·foreclosure·health care lobby·jobs·Neocon Republican obstruction·recession·unemployment
Unemployment, Job Creation, and Back-of-the-Envelope Economics
March 10th, 2010 · Comments Off · General, Health Care, jobs, Politics
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 [...]
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 · Comments Off · Culture, Economics, energy, Health Care, jobs, Politics
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 decided [...]
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 · Comments Off · 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 · Comments Off · 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