by Dave Johnson | May 18, 2010 | Blog
The stimulus is running out, millions lose health insurance in 12 days as COBRA subsidies start to run out, unemployment benefits also start running out, and unemployment is rising. Foreclosures are up. At the same time out-of-money states are laying off hundreds of...
by Dave Johnson | May 17, 2010 | Blog
For Billionaire Mort Zuckerman it’s those damn unions that are the problem. For so many of the rest of us the problem is that we don't have a union. Zuckerman has been with us on lots of things, like what he wrote about the stimulus, “The fiscal program was a...
by Dave Johnson | May 14, 2010 | Blog, Economy
It is hard to imagine out here in the real world, but there seem to be people in the Congress who think they can get (or deserve to be) re-elected when they are failing to do anything about jobs or extending unemployment and COBRA with unemployment at 10%,...
by Dave Johnson | May 13, 2010 | Blog
You and I pay income tax on our income. But if your income comes from having really, really wealthy parents you are entitled to really, really special treatment because that is how democracy plutocracy works. In the news: Kyl: Deal on the estate tax in the offing,...
by Dave Johnson | May 13, 2010 | Blog
What's the old saying about hose who cannot learn from history? Well, here we go again. In the news: Oil, Chinese imports boost U.S. trade deficit, Growing imports of oil and Chinese goods pushed the U.S. trade deficit to its highest level in 15 months in March. The...
