by Dave Johnson | Mar 31, 2015 | Blog, Current Issues, Democracy, Financial Reform
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is supposed to "protect investors." But what happens when a company is dishing the company's cash out to politicians, political parties and political "charities"? Apparently, investors/shareholders don't get to find out...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 31, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth, Trade
Sucker punched by massive, illegally subsidized imports, American steel producers laid off thousands of workers in bedrock communities from Ohio and Illinois to Texas and Alabama. That’s in just the past three months. The families of furloughed workers are struggling...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 31, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Seattle's City Council voted unanimously (9-0) Monday to express its opposition to giving the president fast-track trade authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other upcoming trade agreements. Last week, the City Council in Bellingham, Washington also voted...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 31, 2015 | Blog, Democracy, Populist Majority
For presidential wannabes, the money primary has already begun, as aspirants troop from one gathering of the wealthy to another. Jeb – “my own man” – Bush hasn’t announced formally yet, but is expected to do well on the Republican side, tapping his family's deep well...
by Bill Scher | Mar 31, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
The Choice Before Republican Primary Voters was Laid Bare by Conservative Pundit Matt Lewis, as Reported by The new York Times: Mr. Bush proudly tells of having ended racial preferences at Florida’s universities, but in the next breath adds, as he said in February,...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 30, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth
We all know America's infrastructure is crumbling. Meanwhile, millions of people still need jobs. But in one more of many stunning examples of failure to govern, the Republican budget proposals cut back infrastructure funding even more. Tax cuts have resulted in years...
