by Dave Johnson | Sep 9, 2013 | Shutdown
Congress is coming back to Washington, and the Republican agenda of obstructing efforts to help jobs and the economy will continue. But in the next weeks they will make the economy worse with threats to shut down the entire government over Obamacare and blow up the...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 5, 2013 | Trans-Pacific Partnership
I am sounding the alarm. Right now governments and the giant multinational corporations are engaged in writing a treaty that would overrule national laws that try to rein in what these giant corporations can do to us. This treaty will allow corporations to sue...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 4, 2013 | Making it in America
The July trade report is out. Exports are rising, but imports are rising even more. So our vast, humongous, enormous, out-of-control trade deficit continues its upward trajectory, sucking more jobs and money from our economy. Our deficit with China, of course, is the...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 4, 2013 | Shutdown
Congress returns next week and no doubt will provide fresh reasons for us to cry, "What fresh Hell is this?" They will take up Syria first, but then Republicans will try their damnedest to hold the continued operation of the government hostage over defunding...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 3, 2013 | Blog
Texas Governor Rick Perry is trying to poach jobs from yet another state, offering businesses low taxes and wages. At the same time budget cuts are forcing Texas to convert paved roads to gravel and deep cuts to education continue. What does Texas' job-poaching do to...
