by Dave Johnson | Mar 8, 2010 | Blog
We all pay a huge "hidden" tax when we burn oil and coal. Oil companies get the money. This is holding our economy back. Today when we burn oil or coal we put the toxic waste that results straight into the air. This causes damage to all of us, in many ways. First, of...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 7, 2010 | Blog
Headline at Drudge Report: Obama policies projected to add $9.7 trillion to debt by 2020... points to this story, National debt to be higher than White House forecast, CBO says, President Obama's proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 4, 2010 | Blog
Toyota is planning on closing the New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. NUMMI auto-manufacturing plant in Fremont, CA on March 31. The immediate effect is a loss of 5,000 jobs. But, as with any factory closing, the effects ripple out well beyond the immediately...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 3, 2010 | Blog
Americans who travel out of the country will tell you about how the US is so visibly falling further and further behind the rest of the world. This hurts our ability to compete economically. The cause of the problem was tax cuts. The solution is certainly not more tax...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 2, 2010 | Blog
In the middle of this terrible jobs crisis Whirlpool is closing a factory in the US and sending the jobs to Mexico. Their Mexican workers will be paid $70 a week so they won't be buying any refrigerators. As I wrote the other day, Our system is broken when "the...
