by Dave Johnson | Apr 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Tax day. At a time when elites are lecturing us on deficits, giant corporations are demanding even lower taxes for themselves. Their message: "deficits equal austerity for thee and lower taxes for me." Tax "Reform" Giant corporations and opinion elites are calling for...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
The "Grand Bargain" is about showing the world that we can hurt people, so they will know we are "serious." Reading Jason Linkins' HuffPo account of elite-pundit thinking about the "Grand Bargain," Passing 'Grand Bargain' Voters Don't Care About Is Critical To...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 11, 2013 | Minimum Wage
The corporate/conservative effort to gut the country's labor-law enforcement continues at full steam. Senate Republicans are blocking NLRB Board confirmations. Republican judges blocked the the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from operating until the Senate...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 10, 2013 | Blog
President Obama's budget proposal is officially released into the wild. The president and the media are talking a lot about what the budget's deficit reductions offer to satisfy the priorities of the 1 percent - the donor/owner class. But there are things in this...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 9, 2013 | Blog
For years now Senate Republicans have been filibustering ... everything. At the end of last year there was an effort to convince Democrats in the Senate of the need to reform the filibuster so things We the People need to get done could get done. At the last minute,...
