Eric Lotke

  • Published The Private Prison Industry: Resistance Isn't Futile (Blog entry)
    February 28, 2012 - 3:17pm

    The private prison industry is on the march. In recent months the industry moved to take over 24 state prisons in southern Florida and buy five prisons in Ohio. Now it’s making moves in Michigan.

    But the industry doesn’t always win. Resistance isn’t futile.

  • Published Occupy DC Arrested: Take Action [Video] (Blog entry)
    January 30, 2012 - 12:44pm

    I'm a middle-aged, middle-class PTA dad who participates in Occupy DC because I want a better country for our kids.

    On Sunday, the National Park Service brutally tased a peaceful, young Occupy DC demonstrator. This was a prelude to their threatened crackdown of Occupy DC today at noon.

  • Published The Dream that Drives the Occupations (Blog entry)
    October 25, 2011 - 7:56am

    I’ve been spending evenings and weekends recently with the Occupy protestors in DC. I can’t stay full time because, unlike many protestors, I have two children and a full-time job. But I clearly share their interests and I’m glad they’re making the ruckus. Plan or not, I know what they want, too.

  • Published Representative Moran (and 25 others): Conned by the Concord Coalition (Blog entry)
    July 13, 2011 - 8:53am

    Yesterday evening I attended an event sponsored by my U.S. Representative, Jim Moran (D-VA). I accepted an invitation I received from his email list to a community forum called "Principles & Priorities: How would you balance the budget?"

  • Published Public Employees Offer Solutions. Examples. (Blog entry)
    May 25, 2011 - 9:41am

    Enough with blaming public employees for all of America’s problems. Last week public employees in Oregon marched on the state Capitol with a billion dollars worth of recommendations for government efficiencies and revenue enhancements.

  • Published Breaking Up The Banks: I Did It! (Blog entry)
    March 22, 2011 - 8:14am

    As the debate heats up over Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, I took a step out on my own. I got a divorce. I am no longer a wholly owned subsidiary of Wells Fargo Bank.

  • Published Obama’s Export Goal: How We Can Make it (Blog entry)
    September 29, 2010 - 1:36pm

    Yesterday I attended a conference on the Renaissance of American Manufacturing in Washington DC.

  • Published Obama’s Infrastructure Proposal: A Step Forward (Blog entry)
    September 7, 2010 - 3:51pm

    On Labor Day, President Obama rediscovered his roots.

  • Published New Old Unemployment Data: Screaming at Deaf Ears (Blog entry)
    September 3, 2010 - 10:23am

    The August unemployment data are out. The unemployment rate was "about unchanged" at 9.6 percent,” says the BLS press release. Teenagers "showed little change" at 26.3 percent, as did African Americans (16.3 percent) and Hispanics (12.0 percent).

  • Published New Unemployment Data: No News. Clear Conclusions. (Blog entry)
    August 6, 2010 - 9:46am

    Today’s new unemployment report contains no news, just decimal point changes. It tells us what we already know, that times are bad. The question is whether our great nation can rise to the challenge.