by Dave Johnson | Jul 14, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
"Everyone knows Americans are lazy, shiftless, always looking for a way to shirk their responsibilities. People don't want to work so we have to make them work. And good dose of humiliation is good for the soul. If you let them have any dignity they might get uppity."...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 13, 2010 | Blog, Reagan Revolution
Cut spending? Wait - where did that terrible idea come from? Government is We, the People and its job is to protect and empower us. Why in the world would we want to cut back on that? WSJ today, The Bush Tax Cuts and the Deficit Myth, "Runaway government spending, not...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 4, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
July 4, 1776, Independence Day celebrates our fight to cast off colonial rule by a wealthy elite who were keeping the benefits of our labors for themselves. We fought this system and we won our independence. In the years since We, the People have built up solid public...
by Bill Scher | Jun 21, 2010 | Blog, The Sequester
In today's W. Post column from Robert Samuelson, at one point he writes, "This is intellectually shallow." If he was referring to his own work, he'd be right. But he was trying to attack the President as dishonest about his energy policy, claiming that Obama is...
by Terrance Heath | May 28, 2010 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
The change agenda at America's Future NOW! REGISTER NOW for AFN 2010 The deficit fear mongers are right that America faces a deficit that threatens to cripple our economy and foreclose on the futures of millions of Americans. They just have the wrong deficit. That's...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 21, 2009 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
They are popping the bubbly on Wall Street. Million-dollar bonuses, the Dow at 10,000, the casino is open again. Forget President Obama, who says we can't go back to an economy where finance pockets 40 percent of the profits. We're already headed there. The...
