by Dave Johnson | Apr 10, 2017 | Blog
Making America Great Again; every time a U.S. company hires a hundred people, or even a dozen, President Trump's support network blasts out the message that this is what he's doing. Now they're crowing that unemployment fell to 4.5 percent in March, even though many...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 7, 2017 | Blog
After hearing from We the People, the Republican Congress didn't take away our health care after all! Lesson learned: keep it up. So many people have been calling their representative and senators, showing up at their offices and especially at their town hall...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 5, 2017 | Blog
Our economy has a trade problem. Our trade deficit measures the extent of the problem. Our trade deficit continues to be enormous and humongous. February's Enormous, Humongous $43.6 Billion Trade Deficit The Census Bureau reports the February U.S. deficit on trade...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 3, 2017 | Blog
President Trump has nominated Makan Delrahim to head up the Justice Department’s antitrust division. Most recently, the lawyer lobbied for approval of health insurance giant Anthem's effort to acquire health insurance giant Cigna. Bad sign. Scarcely seventy days into...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 31, 2017 | Blog
Say anything - literally anything - to sway working-class voters. Get elected, then loot the country. Hey, it worked for this guy. If there was a singular issue Trump campaigned on, it was trade. Everywhere he went, Trump swore the North American Free Trade Agreement...