by Leo Gerard | Jan 3, 2012 | Blog
‘Tis the season of resolutions. With the new year comes pledges to quit smoking, get out of debt and spend more time with family. Gym memberships jump. Weight Watchers’ profits fatten. This also happens to be the season of political resolutions. It’s that...
by Leo Gerard | Dec 27, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
In the iconic Christmas film, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” an angel offers the beleaguered main character, George Bailey, the stark choice between a hometown named for a cruel banker or one created by and for the middle class. The banker’s town, Pottersville, is filled...
by Leo Gerard | Dec 20, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
Amid prolonged, painfully high unemployment, ABC News Anchor Diane Sawyer for the past year tirelessly advocated a simple solution – buy American-made products. She clearly explained the reasoning: every American dollar spent on an American-made product helps create...
by Leo Gerard | Dec 13, 2011 | Blog
It wasn’t so much a vote as a proclamation of ideology last Thursday when Republicans filibustered Obama’s nominee to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The rebuff had nothing to do with the person, Richard Cordary, who even Republican Senator Orrin Hatch...
by Leo Gerard | Dec 6, 2011 | Blog
MTV needs to stop giving that creepy vampire guy and moony human girl in the “Twilight” series the “best kiss” prize in its annual movie awards because it’s Republicans who truly earned the trophy for the big wet smooches they lay on the 1 percent. Just think of the...
