by Dave Johnson | Aug 11, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
Washington is in a Fox News tizzy about budget deficits. But even though the budget deficits were clearly caused by tax cuts for the rich, huge military spending increases and the effects of the lack of jobs, ideas for fixing those are the very things that are "off...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 9, 2011 | Blog
Just ten years ago this country was running huge surpluses and paying off its debt. But then we elected Obama and all hell broke loose. Oh, wait... Something Happened Between the time ten years ago when we had big surpluses and were paying off the debt and now when we...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 9, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Rebuild The Dream As I wrote earlier in Ten Years Ago We Were Paying Off The Nation's Debt. But Then We Elected Obama., the The American Dream Movement is rolling out their Contract for the American Dream. The Tea-Party-fascinated press is largely ignoring this, but...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 3, 2011 | Blog
You probably don’t know that another act of hostage-taking by Republicans is underway. They have shut down the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to help Delta Airlines in its battle to keep its workers from voting in a union. This is costing the government $200...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 1, 2011 | Blog
The country has been held at gunpoint: a faction of the Congress, in service to a wealthy elite, were able to get away with threatening us, saying "give us everything we want or we will kill your economy." The other side, inured now to one-dollar-one-vote "market"...
