by Leo Gerard | Jul 21, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
The Bush administration told taxpayers to hand over hundreds of billions of their hard-earned dollars to bail out Wall Street banks because the financial institutions were too big to fail. Now, Rupert Murdoch, owner of politically powerful publications and broadcast...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 15, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
Efforts by those who never want to hear someone say, “Bye-bye American manufacturing,” converged coincidentally to make June Buy American month. First, at the forceful urging of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the Smithsonian on June 8 opened an all-American-made...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 28, 2011 | Blog
The Clearwater Paper Corp. in Lewistown, Idaho chose the king cobra to symbolize its workplace safety program. A cobra. One of the deadliest snakes on the planet. Every day on his way to and from work at Clearwater, John Bergen III drove past a billboard in the...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 12, 2011 | Blog
Tragically, the government of Colombia exhibits the behavior of an addict. And, just as regrettably, the United States is co-dependent, so addicted to so called free trade that it plans to award Colombia an agreement based solely on promises. Addicts always promise....
by Leo Gerard | Apr 8, 2011 | Blog
Republicans concocted death panels in an attempt to terrify Americans about health care reform, then propagated the lie because they wanted insurance corporations to profit from illness and injury unfettered. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed...
