Normally only idiotic and venal Senator John Kyl of Arizona, while Mexicans are climbing over the garden walls in Tucson and he is fiddling (or “diddling” ?) away his time in Washington, has said…pay attention now…that the Republicans will not raise the debt ceiling without dollar-for-dollar cuts in government spending. What this means is all [...]
Entries Tagged as 'recession'
First Big Emergency of Many. Better Read This!
June 15th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Capitalism, Politics
Tags: budget debt ceiliing·depression·raising the debt ceiling·recession·what happens if we don't raise the debt ceiling
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
Reality, Fantasy and Leadership
November 11th, 2009 · Comments Off · Culture, Politics
Since the latter part of the last decade of the 20th Century, the once-great United States of America has fallen into a trap. That trap is that we can continue to be great without paying the price for greatness. Everyone knows the price but no one is willing to pay it. The price is a [...]
Tags: Bush administration·Europe·fantasy·fundamentalist christians·Gore·leadership·Lieberman·Lunatic fringe·political reality·Politics·reality·recession·Republicans·Right Wing·slavery·tea parties·war
The Economy, the Stimulus and Coming Out of the Recession
October 13th, 2009 · Comments Off · 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
Tea Party Protestors Should be Blaming Bush, Not Obama.
September 18th, 2009 · Comments Off · Politics
If you are reading this and you are one of the demonstrators at the so-called tea parties, there is a lot you obviously don’t know. If you demonstrate against the administration that was elected to restore some rights and some measure of equality for the middle classes then when you protest you are working against [...]
Tags: Bush·Cheney·deficit·depression·economy·national debt·Obama·recession·surplus