by Terrance Heath | Nov 8, 2012 | Blog, Financial Reform
In the words of the old spiritual, "My Lord, what a morning!" Barack Obama's 2008 campaign was defined by an iconic poster bearing the single word: "Change." Obama's victory in 2008 signified how much America had already changed enough to make his historic campaign...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 8, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Washington is headed immediately into the fiscal showdown, with fierce pressure to use the arbitrary year-end deadline for the termination of various tax cuts and the automatic cut or sequester of some 9 percent of discretionary spending to force a grand bargain. Here...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 8, 2012 | Blog
The public looked at the stories about Solyndra and Sensata and voted. They voted for clean energy jobs IN the US, not for vulture capitalism that ships our jobs and industries OUT of the US. They voted to act as a united country instead of a leaving everyone on their...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 8, 2012 | Blog
Our trade deficit with China rose to $29.1 billion in September, up from $28.7 billion in August. This is the second-highest trade deficit ever with China. The terrible trade deficit is where our jobs and the economy went. Trade i sour real deficit! But the trade...
by Eric Lotke | Nov 8, 2012 | Blog
I worked the polls in Fairfax, Virginia on election day 2012. I opened the door at 6:00 am, logged voters in, operated the machines, and passed out "I voted" stickers on the way out. At 10:00 pm when our results had been tabulated and machines disassembled, I signed...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 8, 2012 | Blog
In the last election the forces of concentrated wealth and corporate power played the same old divide-and-conquer game they have been playing for decades, but this time it didn't work! They tried to divide us by race, religion, sex, sexual preference, class and every...
