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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Don’t Think “Green Energy;” Think Green Jobs.
June 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Economics, Politics, energy, jobs, taxes
Tags: alternative sources of energy·clean energy programs·energy independence·green energy jobs·inheritance taxes·jobs·unemployment
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 [...]
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 · 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 [...]
Tags: depression·foreclosure·health care lobby·jobs·Neocon Republican obstruction·recession·unemployment
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 [...]
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
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