by Terrance Heath | Sep 21, 2012 | Blog
Yesterday, I posted a compilation of the responses of 47-Percenters to the now infamous Romney fundraiser video, in which Mitt Romney basically writes off as lazy moochers the 47 percent of Ameiricans who don't earn enough to owe federal income taxes. Both the Romney...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 20, 2012 | Blog
Bloggers and pundits have completely picked apart what Mitt Romney had to say about "the 47 percent" in that secret video leaked by Mother Jones magazine. As I posted yesterday, we know that nearly 47 percent of Americans don't pay federal income taxes, because they...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 20, 2012 | Blog
Just when you think Mitt Romney couldn't sink his well-heeled foot any deeper into his mouth, he shoves it in even further. The outrage over his dishonest, political point-scoring over the Muslim riots in Afghanistan, Egypt and Libya was still unfolding, when Romney...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 13, 2012 | Blog, Economy
There's one thing I forgot to mention in my previous post, "10 Ways to Rebuild the Middle Class": We already know how to rebuild the middle class. We've done it before. One way we built the middle class was to "Give unemployed job seekers a real, fresh start," which...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 13, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
The middle class is the great engine of the American economy, but today that engine is sputtering. Our economic crisis is one half of a vicious cycle in which it and the unemployment crisis feed and perpetuate one another, hollowing out the middle-class in the...
