by Terrance Heath | Nov 2, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Much has already been written and said about violence police used against unarmed OWS protesters in New York, Chicago, Boston, and now Oakland. From using pepper spray against peaceful protesters to lobbing flash bombs at unarmed protesters rushing to help an injured...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 31, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Texas Governor Rick Perry touts himself as the most conservative candidate who is electable. He prays with the fundamentalists, hunts with the Second Amendment gang, decries federal tyranny with the 10th Amendment crowd, and “pokes” around with the birthers. He just...
by Sean McMartin | Oct 27, 2011 | Blog, Economy
For most people Social Security cuts are something to be feared in the future, but for one group of people cuts in Social Security are already a real and present danger: the employees of the Social Security Administration. And these Social Security cuts are having a...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 20, 2011 | Blog, Economy
"Get a job!" It's the right-wing's favorite retort to protesters on the left. It goes back at least as far as the 1960's and 1970's, and implies that only "dirty hippies" who are too lazy to work — and would rather mooch off the government and be subsidized people in...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 20, 2011 | Blog, Economy
As the Senate prepares for a vote on a $35 billion bill to support hiring of teachers and first responders around the country, conservative are pillorying Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for a bit of inartful truth-telling. After all, it is so much easier for Senate...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 20, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Telling people to "Get a job!" on one hand, while telling businesses to "Stop creating jobs!" on the other, and then blaming the unemployed for their jobless state sounds more than a little contradictory. If an individual person managed all three,...
