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 […]
Revive Manufacturing with Green Jobs
There is a green manufacturing revolution occurring in the world — the rest of it, anyway — and it is on track to create millions of jobs and trillions of […]
Actual Enforcement Of Actual Laws Is It Possible
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is back to work, and for the first time in years has started doing its job. This is a shock to anti-government corporate conservatives, […]
Palin and Boeing CEO Tell Government Who The Boss Is
What can a democracy like ours do when giant companies say, “Rules? We don’t need no stinkin’ rules! We don’t got to pay you no taxes!” and “We will just […]
CorporateConservative Heads Explode As NLRB Actually Enforces Law
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is engaging in legal action against Boeing and is threatening to sue Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Utah for anti-union activities. It has […]
NLRB v Boeing Corporations Fear Law Itself
The National Labor Relations Board is attempting to enforce our country’s laws and the corporate conservatives are going nuts – literally. They are challenging the concept of law itself, while […]
China Currency Fight In Congress
The fight to get China to stop their currency manipulation is heating up. China keeps its currency very low, giving their goods a huge price advantage even before all their […]
Buy American At The Take Back The American Dream Conference
At next week’s Take Back The American Dream conference I’m on the Tuesday panel titled Strategy on State Level for Buy America Campaign. Please stop by if you are at […]
Republicans Cheer That Labor Leaders Murdered In Colombia
Hundreds of executions in Texas — Republican crowd cheers. An uninsured person in a coma — Republican crowd shouts “Let him die!” And now, labor leaders murdered in Colombia — […]
Shutdown and Hostage-Taking — It Is NOT Both Sides Doing It
One side says, "Never mind the deal we just agreed to, cut this or we'll shut down the government" and the other side says, "This isn't fair, and it hurts people. We can't keep agreeing to pay these ransoms, this has to stop!"
ANOTHER Hostage-Taking Threat To Shut Down Government
Just weeks after the “debt-ceiling” hostage-taking, forcing trillions to be cut out of the economy, the hostage-takers are at it again. Now they are threatening a government shutdown, demanding even […]
Five Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Solyndra
Oil-backed conservatives have been absolutely ecstatic over the collapse of American solar-power company Solyndra and the rise of China as the dominant country in green energy, because they think they […]
Oil-Backed Conservatives Try To Kill Green Jobs Effort
For more on how we can fight for green jobs, hear Rep. Chris Murphy, United Steelworkers’ Leo Gerard, Alliance for American Manufacturing’s Scott Paul and Leo Hindery, Jr. at the […]
Conservatives Say It Out Loud They Hate Democracy
The roots of today’s toxic conservative movement lie in Ayn Rand’s teaching that wealthy “producers — now called “job creators” — should be left alone by the government, namely the […]
When Trade Is Out Of Balance Tariffs And Trade Enforcement Equals Jobs
A new report shows just how many jobs have been lost to “China’s currency manipulation, state-owned enterprises, heavy industrial subsidies, intellectual property theft and piracy, indigenous innovation policies, rare earth […]
Obama Deficit Speech – What My Wife Heard
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 […]
Five Super-Congress Debt-Cutting Myths
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 […]
Jobs Speech In A Democracy — What Do Polls Show The Public Wants
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 […]
Infrastructure Work Is Needed And People Need The Work
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 […]
Corporations Lose Love Of Secret Ballot After NLRB Proposal For Fair Union Elections
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 […]
