by Dave Johnson | Oct 24, 2013 | Blog
Republicans are demanding cuts in Social Security and Medicare if Democrats want to change the terms of the "sequester." I'm sure their Tea Party "base" would be shocked if they understood this. So would most Americans. So is the media giving Americans the information...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 24, 2013 | Making it in America
The trade deficit figures for August were released this morning by the Census Bureau's Bureau of Economic Analysis. The Bureau reports that "total August exports of $189.2 billion and imports of $228.0 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of $38.8 billion,...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 22, 2013 | Blog
Problem: multinational corporations are sitting on a huge lump of money from profits made outside of the US, avoiding hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes. There are four ways to solve this. Three of them create millions of American jobs and bolster American...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 22, 2013 | Jobs and Growth
No more cuts – the public is fed up. Democrats won the shutdown fight. Republicans lost and the public-at-large hates them and their ideas. There is no reason for Democrats to play on their playing field. Here is a guiding message Democrats should use from here on...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 21, 2013 | Blog
If you think Republicans have learned a lesson from their "defeat" over the shutdown and debt-ceiling hostage-taking, then you're not paying attention to what they’re saying to each other online, on the radio and elsewhere. Here is a quick look around right-wing...
