by Dave Johnson | Nov 5, 2011 | Blog
Congress' "supercommittee" of the 1% is preparing an austerity plan for the 99%. Will We, the People be allowed to vote on this plan, or, like Greece, will the elites just tell us how it is going to be? Our deficits were caused by tax cuts for the rich and huge...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 4, 2011 | Blog
This situation of crony government protecting the connected rich while people are in the streets demanding change is more and more reminiscent of Egypt under Mubarak. In the real world tens of thousands are in the streets around the country demanding taxes on the rich...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 4, 2011 | Blog
It was an amazing thing to be part of, an entire city downtown occupied, then a huge march that shut down a major port. Oakland was #occupied! This was a game changer, a turning point. What happened in Oakland was a very big deal. On the same Wednesday there were big,...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 4, 2011 | Blog
At a meeting with bloggers before last week's Building The New Economy conference, AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka talked about how we have developed two economies, one real and one financial. As he said, originally the financial sector was designed to support the real...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 1, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
After a decade of Republican policies that dearly cost the country's manufacturing sector, Republican Presidential candidates today offered ideas for reviving our country's jobs engine. Unfortunately those ideas are the same ideas that got us into this mess in the...
