by Dave Johnson | Sep 19, 2011 | Blog
I watched President Obama's "deficit speech" this morning. My wife was listening from another room. She does not follow politics as closely as you and I do. The only thing she heard was "Medicare cuts." Why was Medicare in a speech about raising taxes on the rich?...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 19, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Ten years ago the country was on track to pay off the entire national debt in ... ten years. But then... So President Bush left behind a $1.4 trillion budget deficit, and now under President Obama the same Republicans who created the deficits are all terribly,...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 16, 2011 | Blog, Economy
As President Obama prepares to give a major speech on jobs before a joint session of Congress, what does the public think the country should do? The public wants jobs created to fix our crumbling infrastructure, paid for by tax increases on Wall Street and the...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 15, 2011 | Blog
We've been deferring maintenance of our infrastructure since the Reagan tax cuts - never mind modernizing to restore American competitiveness. It is something that has to be done anyway, and here we are with so many people needing work. It's just nuts. Millions of...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 15, 2011 | Blog
The NLRB proposes streamlining union elections. Companies that were for secret ballots last year are now against it. Conservatives say removing barriers to elections "rams elections through" and " foist unions on workers" and that We, the People (government) shouldn't...
