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Actual Enforcement Of Actual Laws Is It Possible

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is back to work, and for the first time in years has started doing its job. This is a shock to anti-government corporate conservatives, and teaches a lesson about just why they are anti-government. A functioning government in...

Palin and Boeing CEO Tell Government Who The Boss Is

What can a democracy like ours do when giant companies say, "Rules? We don’t need no stinkin’ rules! We don’t got to pay you no taxes!" and "We will just move out of your puny country if you try to tell us what to do." Government is beginning to enforce labor laws...

NLRB v Boeing Corporations Fear Law Itself

The National Labor Relations Board is attempting to enforce our country's laws and the corporate conservatives are going nuts - literally. They are challenging the concept of law itself, while making wild claims of conspiracies by government against business itself....

Personal Incomes Drop Economy Needs An Intervention

We knew from the the Labor Department's awful jobs report for August that today’s Bureau of Economic Analysis report on personal income would show a sharp decline. It does. Even with a sharp decline in tax payments, total real disposable incomes fell 0.3% in August...

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