by Dave Johnson | Feb 17, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Fast track trade promotion legislation is likely to be introduced soon and will be used to push through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement – but the public knows very little about what this would mean to them. To help get the word out, there will be a...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 13, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]http://youtu.be/5o6vJw9mkzU[/fve] The Conservative/Wall Street/1 Percent/Republican anti-government strategy is to set government up to fail (usually by starving it of funding). Then they point to the resulting "crisis" they created and say it proves that...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 11, 2015 | Blog, Trade
[fve]http://youtu.be/sfxMRWVJcrs[/fve] On Sunday I was the speaker on a regular Sunday call for the National Campaign Call to Stop Fast Track for the TPP. (TPP stands for Trans-Pacific Partnership, a NAFTA-style trade deal that is being negotiated in secret right...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 11, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy
Silicon Valley companies dodge taxes and use some of the money to build shiny, luxurious, and private bus lines for their employees. The rest of us are — literally — stuck, because the tax scams these companies engage in have de-funded our — We the People's — ability...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 10, 2015 | Blog, Trade
Today was "Currency Manipulation Day" on Capitol Hill, declared to call attention to how it works and the damage it does to our economy. In the House there was a "Currency 101" briefing, and in both the House and Senate bipartisan bills were introduced that would...
