by Leo Gerard | Feb 3, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy
The people of Greece rebelled last week against the perverse notion that they should continue to endure biting austerity in a vain attempt to cure a condition that they are not solely responsible for creating. Sounds familiar, right? It’s like American workers forced...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 27, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy
Reaganomics, the plot to appease the rich and condemn the rest, got its comeuppance last week in President Obama's State of the Union speech. The President asked: "Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well?" That's the trickle-down economy...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 20, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Instead of the plodding turtle he's normally satirized as, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is all cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof about Trade Promotion Authority, better known as Fast Track. He said as Congress convened this month that he wants to fast track Fast Track....
by Leo Gerard | Jan 13, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
The jobs report Friday set off cheering: a quarter million positions added in December; unemployment declining to 5.6 percent. This good news arrived amid a booming stock market and a third-quarter GDP report showing the strongest growth in 11 years. It’s all...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 6, 2015 | Blog, Health
America just celebrated the season of giving with Hanukkah and Christmas presents, year-end charity donations and soup-kitchen volunteering. It is a time when Americans demonstrate the generosity, caring and kindness that define them as a people. Now, however,...
