by Dave Johnson | Aug 30, 2013 | Blog
Tea Party types say the "sequester" is just cutting "waste" out of the government - and government spending is a bad thing anyway. In Santa Clara County, California, 18,000 families face possible homelessness Sept. 1. That's just one county. There are 3,144 counties...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 29, 2013 | Blog
Here are three words or phrases currently being used widely that back up Republican anti-government propaganda. And here are some ideas about what you might want to say instead. Gridlock I keep reading that Congress is suffering from “gridlock.” But if they were...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 28, 2013 | Blog
Here is one thing Congress could do that would create more jobs, boost the economy and reduce both the budget deficit and the trade deficit. This one thing would not only provide a big boost now, but would provide an ongoing boost from now on. Congress should modify...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 27, 2013 | The Unfinished March
As we remember Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech, it is a good time to reflect on our own dreams of what our society could become. What is my dream? It all starts with jobs. But it goes on from there. This week Terrance Heath wrote, in "Fifty Years Later:...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 26, 2013 | Blog
If your core cause is the environment, LGBT, health care, women's rights, social justice, civil rights, labor, economic equality, YOU NAME IT you are seen by the giant corporations as the same enemy. But for too long all of these groups have been divided. Here is the...
