Tag Archives: job creation

Obama’s deficit reduction plan not as shitty as thinking Americans feared

By Mark | September 19, 2011

As promised, Barack Obama unveiled his administration’s new deficit reduction plan this afternoon, in the White House rose garden. [Those who want the facts can find an outline of the plan on the White House website. A PDF of the entire proposal can be found there as well.] From what I can tell, it marks […]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged budget cuts, Buffett Rule, Bush tax cuts, Chuck Schumer, class warfare, deficit, deficit reduction, Deficit Reduction Super Committee, grand bargain, John Boehner, John Fleming, Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, math, Medicaid, Medicare, Mitch McConnell, Obama, Paul Ryan, political hardball, tax loopholes, tax the rich, theology of tax cuts, veto | 30 Comments

Eric Cantor sighted in Ann Arbor

By Mark | August 29, 2011

Did anyone happen to see House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in Ann Arbor today? According to a reader of the Ann Arbor Chronicle, he was at the State Street CVS this afternoon, surrounded by Secret Service agents. I wasn’t aware of it until just now, but apparently his daughter, Jenna, is a sophomore at U-M… […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Politics | Also tagged Chelsea Lowe, disaster relief, Environmental Protection Agency, Eric Cantor, Hurricane Irene, Jenna Cantor, natural disasters, regulatory relief, University of Michigan, Vermont | 30 Comments

What we should be doing instead of slashing federal spending via Super Committee

By Mark | August 16, 2011

It pains me admit it, but sometimes the readers of this site do a better job of expressing what I’d like to say that I do. In those instances, I feel obligated to share what they’ve written here, on the front page. At other times, I just post their ramblings up here because I’d rather […]

Posted in energy, Politics, Rants | Also tagged budget cuts, budget deficit, Bush tax cuts, debt ceiling, Deficit Reduction Super Committee, eduction reform, energy independence, Glen S, green jobs, infrastructure, Medicaid, Medicare, social security | 6 Comments

The Gang of Six are serving their corporate masters, who don’t, by the way, create jobs

By Mark | July 21, 2011

I’m tired, and the sweat is running off of me in tiny rivers. The house we live in, built over 150 years ago, does not have air conditioning. It’s never bothered me before, but, tonight, as I lay here in bed, with a red-hot laptop balanced across my mountainous belly, and my sweat pooling in […]