by Dave Johnson | Aug 16, 2013 | Climate, Making it in America
America used to manufacture silicon chips. Now much of that industry has moved to China. Solar-panel manufacturing will be a huge industry of the future and America deserves to have a chunk of that industry and the jobs and income that industry will bring. But...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 16, 2013 | Blog
The parents of the Republican Party are away for the summer and the Tea-nagers are ransacking the House. But is it really a surprise that people who hate government itself would act to destroy government itself? Shut The Government Vs. Global Meltdown There are more...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 15, 2013 | Blog
Two new stories today that just happened to be located one after the other in my news feed illustrate the divide between what most of us are experiencing, and how the Very Serious People at the top -- the ones who can actually do something to improve things for...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 15, 2013 | Blog
Cancel the sequester and stop the cuts. The deficit is already down by more than half. The cuts are cruel and stupid. They hurt people and they hurt the economy. Sequester = 900,000 Jobs Lost I included this as a part of a post the other day, in Jobs, Jobs, Jobs....
by Dave Johnson | Aug 14, 2013 | Making it in America
Wow, it sure is convenient for Republicans and Wall Street to blame unions and working people and government for Detroit's problems. (It's what they do.) They talk about crime and corrupt inner-city politicians – Republicanspeak for "black people." (It's also what...