by Bill Scher | Sep 30, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Reasonable people can disagree about the merits of the Wall Street bailout. But you can't reasonably believe we should use taxpayer money to bail out irresponsible bankers and do nothing to insist bankers start behaving responsibly. As my colleague Zach Carter just...
by Zach Carter | Sep 30, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
A full 90 members of Congress who voted to bailout Wall Street in 2008 failed to support financial reform reining in the banks that drove our economy off a cliff. But when you examine campaign contribution data, it's really no surprise that these particular lawmakers...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 30, 2010 | Blog
Get this: Republicans on the Deficit Commission aren't just refusing to consider any tax increases. Now they're proposing tax decreases designed to help the rich, while taking benefits from everyone else. Dealing with people like that is like negotiating with somebody...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 29, 2010 | Blog
Tuesday in A Chance To Show The Public -- TAKE THE VOTES I wrote, Our form of government depends on an informed public. But currently the gap between what the public wants and what the public knows is huge. Democrats in Congress have an opportunity this week to draw...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 29, 2010 | Blog
Last month Former Senator and Deficit Commission co-chair Alan Simpson said this about Social Security, and by extension about government itself, "We’ve reached a point now where it’s like a milk cow with 310 million tits!" Nice. We work and pay into Social Security...
by Eric Lotke | Sep 29, 2010 | Blog, Making it in America
Yesterday I attended a conference on the Renaissance of American Manufacturing in Washington DC. It included a variety of organizations with interests in trade, from the US Business and Industry Council to the International Association of Machinists and the U.S.-China...
