by Dave Johnson | Jul 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today is the 48th birthday of Medicare! President Johnson signing the Medicare program into law, July 30, 1965. Photo credit: LBJ Presidential Library. Before Medicare only half of older Americans had any health insurance at all. The elderly had on average half the...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 29, 2013 | The Jobs Challenge
The President is pushing a jobs agenda to grow the economy "from the midddle out." Insider DC is mocking him because the ideas -- infrastructure, American manufacturing, fund our schools -- are not "new." Here is what else isn't new: budget cuts take money out of the...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 26, 2013 | Climate
House Republicans just passed a bill to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of authority to regulate coal ash. Maybe they plan to "save money" by putting it in school lunches? In 2008, a levee broke on a coal ash impoundment in Tennessee, spilling more than 5...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 26, 2013 | Making it in America
Hey wouldn't it be great to pass a law requiring government agencies to try to boost American jobs when they award contracts and buy supplies? Or how about giving contract and purchase preference to companies that didn't send jobs out of the country in the prior year?...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 25, 2013 | This Is The GOP
Imagine a political party that keeps government from helping people, because that might lead people to support government. Imagine a political party that hurts parts of the country because those parts tend to not vote the way they want. Imagine a political party that...
