by Leo Gerard | Apr 9, 2013 | Minimum Wage
As the U.S. Commerce Department released a report late last month showing corporate profits at a 60-year high, suddenly the big news was about how cheating surely must be rampant in social security disability. Wait, what? Also late last month, a Washington Post...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 2, 2013 | The Sequester
Republicans are suffering grievously from the syndrome that singer Joni Mitchell memorialized in the hit “Big Yellow Taxi” in 1970. The chorus says it all: Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put up a...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
It’s hard to believe considering what happened in 2008 on Wall Street and in Washington, but banking is built on trust. A worker hands his hard-earned dollars to a teller and trusts the money will be deposited and available for withdrawal when needed. Despite the...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 19, 2013 | Back to Work Budget
Just four months ago, Americans told the Romney-Ryan team: “No.” The electorate rejected them. Many voters objected to Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan treating them the way arrogant 1 percenters treat “The Help.” Rep. Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin, exposed his...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 16, 2013 | Gender Justice
The GOP must really love the character that Lucille Ball created in the 1950s show “I Love Lucy.” Just as her husband Desi Arnaz, aka Ricky Ricardo, believed, the party thinks women are empty-headed twits. Women are so vacuous, right-wingers figure, that they don’t...
