Mr President Adjourn The Congress And Fill Vacancies
Republicans are threatening a scheme to block yet another part of the government – the NLRB, this time – from functioning, for the purpose of enriching the 1% while driving […]
Super Committee Out Of Way – Now Back To Reality
Let’s hope that the failure of the “super committee” quest to take money out of the economy clears the media mist for a minute, so people can focus on real […]
A Quick Word About Deficits
I just wanted to say a few quick things about deficits and the “super committee.” 1) Never forget that 11 years ago we had a huge budget surplus and were […]
Big Day Of Action Around The Country
A government that says corporate money is “speech” dispatches lines of police to stop actual human-being citizens from actually speaking out. It’s all right there in front of us: Wall […]
China Commission Report – A Bit Scary
Bear with me here, this gets interesting … and a bit scary. The 2011 REPORT TO CONGRESS of the U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION has been released. From the […]
Government Shutdowns Get The 1 What They Want
A while back I was writing about the Republican threat of a government-wide shutdown, and the two-week Federal Aviation Administration shutdown (and Delta Airlines’ anti-union role in that). The shutdown […]
Egypt-Style Attacks On Several Occupy Camps
When Egyptians stood up to Mubarak they were met with tear gas and clubs. Once upon a time America had freedom of assembly, speech and protest. Even now, as long […]
Taxes Are The Elephant In EVERY Room
Ten years ago we were on a path to paying off the country’s debt. In fact, if we had stayed on the same trajectory the debt might be paid off […]
Simple Things Like Painting Roofs White
If you paint black roofs white you save a lot on energy use, and you create some jobs. So how come something as simple as this is so hard to […]
The Republican Economic Anti-Government Argument
Haley Barbour articulated Republican economic thinking yesterday, saying “government sucks money out of the economy.” Apparently he thinks it puts tax money under a big mattress. During yesterday’s Clinton Global […]
AFL-CIO Makes 10 Billion Infrastructure Commitment
At the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) – America yesterday the AFL-CIO announced a $10 billion commitment to invest in America’s infrastructure. This commitment puts labor’s money where their mouth is. […]
Is Clintons Global Initiative Up To Addressing The Jobs Crisis
This week I travel to Chicago to cover CGI America, a special session of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). CGI America will bring together “business, government, and civic leaders to […]
Its The Trade Deficit
A huge part of the reason we can’t get out of this unemployment slump is the trade deficit. We don’t buy American and neither do our “trade partners.” We buy […]
Occupy Movement Is Spreading And Growing
Our captured government won’t do its job. It doesn’t keep Wall Street and banks and giant corporations from ripping us off and doesn’t prosecute them after they do. It doesn’t […]
Will Americans Be Allowed To Vote On Supercommittee Austerity Plan
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 […]
With People In Streets Mubarak Congress Focused On Taking Money Out Of Economy
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 […]
Oakland Occupied — Will Washington Listen At Last
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 […]
Wall Street’s War Against The Real Economy & We, The People
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. […]
Republican Candidate Manufacturing Forum
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 […]
Is A Flat Tax Fair
Conservatives are always pushing for a “flat tax.” It sounds so simple: One easy rate, so we all pay the same, easy to calculate… Get rid of deductions and lower […]
Why You Should Attend An Occupy Meeting
Please forward this to friends, relatives, “centrists” and conservatives you know. You may have heard about the “Occupy” protests that are occurring in cities around the country. They aren’t what […]
Plutocratic Government Tries To Beat Down #Occupy
In Oakland peaceful #Occupy demonstrators were camping out in front of city hall. The city launched a police raid to clear out the camp, using tear gas, flash-bank grenades, rubber […]
Taxes = Democracy
Watch this interview on taxes. Watch how fast the argument against taxing the wealthy turns into an argument against democracy. Below is a Wednesday Newshour with Richard Epstein of the […]
Adjourn and Appoint We Can’t Wait – For Recess Appointments
The Republicans are obstructing the government from operating. Judges, appointees, NLRB members, etc. are blocked with the purpose of keeping government from doing its job. This is taking a terrible […]
People Distrust Government — Conservative Mission Accomplished
The corporate/conservative plan for decades has been to turn people against government and democracy. Because when people stop accepting the idea of We, the People making decisions, guess who gets […]
Tax Holiday Generates Holiday Gifts For Big Multinationals
Have you heard about the “tax holiday” idea? The idea is to let corporations bring overseas profits back to the United States at a very low tax rate. These overseas […]
Captured Government’s Increasing Irrelevance Shows #Occupy’s Importance
Our captured political institutions make themselves increasingly irrelevant by not addressing the problems of the 99%. Each day we see more examples of our government being “captured” by and serving […]
61 House Republicans Co-Sponsored China Currency Bill Now Side With China
Last week, in These Are The House Republicans Blocking The Crackdown On China Currency Manipulation. Call Them. I named 61 House Republicans who had co-sponsored the China currency bill, but […]
Occupy Wall Street Day 12 – Poised To Take Off
“We are occupying Wall Street. We will not be moved.” “Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we […]
Occupy Wall Street Day 13 – Rebel Or Slave – Boston San Francisco Too
“Either you are a rebel or a slave.” “Why is life a bitch? Cause we don’t tax the rich!” The protests have spread to San Francisco and Boston. People are […]
Washington Ignored The People And Now You’ve Got #Occupy
What did the politicians in Washington think would happen? They forgot about the “We, the People” part of our Constitution. After bailing out the banks and bankers and interests of […]
Jobs – Still The #1 National Emergency
We are in an absolute national jobs emergency and everyone outside of Washington, DC understands this. But if you read the DC-oriented press, you would think that the “issue” of […]
New Republican Jobs Plan Really Is Different This Time Really
Senate Republicans have unveiled their new Jobs Through Growth Act. This time it’s different. Read on and see why. Bill Scher, in this morning’s News To Media: Republicans Have Not […]
The Contract For The American Dream at the Take Back the American Dream Conference
The Take Back The American Dream conference opened Tuesday by discussing the Contract for the American Dream. Deepak Bhargava of the Center for Community Change began by saying that “there […]
Jobs Not Cuts Rally at the Capitol
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Trade Deals Pass Congress — China Currency Bill More Important Than Ever
Congress just passed three more NAFTA-like trade deals, so our country’s trade deficit is going to get even worse. And pressure on working people to accept pay and benefit cuts […]
These Are The House Republicans Blocking The Crackdown On China Currency Manipulation Call Them
We buy a lot from China, and they don’t buy much from us. Some call that “trade.” The result is that our jobs, factories, companies, industries and wealth are moving […]
Will The US House Side With China On Currency
If we want to bring jobs and wealth back to the United States for the 99% of us who have been under extreme pressure we’re going to have to do […]
Make Work Pay For US — CEO Pay vs The Rest Of Us
At the Take Back The American Dream conference session titled “Make Work Pay: Why Empowering Workers & Holding CEO’s Accountable is Vital to Economic Growth” Christine Owens of the Nationsal […]
Rich Trumka At The Take Back The American Dream Conference Bring It On
‘A Massive, Militant Movement’ AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka addresses the Take Back the American Dream conference October 4. AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka called for a “mighty movement for jobs […]
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