by Dave Johnson | Mar 3, 2010 | Blog
Americans who travel out of the country will tell you about how the US is so visibly falling further and further behind the rest of the world. This hurts our ability to compete economically. The cause of the problem was tax cuts. The solution is certainly not more tax...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 3, 2010 | Blog
Today's Heritage Foundation "Morning Bell," its daily conservative talking-points memo, contains says this blunt statement about the process that the Obama administration wants to use to pass a health care reform bill through Congress: "Never has reconciliation been...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 3, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Vice President Joe Biden defended the administration in a speech to America's labor leaders, gathered at the AFL-CIO Executive Council meetings in Orlando, Florida this week. Mentioning individual union presidents by name -- including some not in the room --he...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 3, 2010 | Blog
At what point does "bipartisanship" begin to erode the democratic process? Here's my answer: When it's used to take decision-making power away from voters and place it in the hands of a governing elite - an elite which acts in secret so that its members cannot be held...
by Sara Robinson | Mar 2, 2010 | Blog
My adopted home town of Vancouver, BC is returning to normal this week. The party's over, the Olympic banners are coming down, and the world is catching its planes for home. But the Canadian flags are still flying everywhere against the late winter skies, thanks to a...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 2, 2010 | Blog
In the middle of this terrible jobs crisis Whirlpool is closing a factory in the US and sending the jobs to Mexico. Their Mexican workers will be paid $70 a week so they won't be buying any refrigerators. As I wrote the other day, Our system is broken when "the...
