Tag Archives: rolling back the New Deal

Largest trade imbalance in nine years, biggest stock market drop in a decade, government set to borrow nearly $1 trillion… Is this the “tidal wave” of good economic news Trump was talking about?

By Mark | February 6, 2018

As I took last night off, there’s a lot that we could talk about today. We could talk about he fact that our president, standing before a terrifyingly representative sample of what’s left of his base announced that those who refuse to applaud him are “un-American” and likely “treasonous”. Or we could talk about the […]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged $1.50, budget deficit, Cadet Bone Spurs, DACA, deficit spending, Donald Trump, Dow Jones, international trade, Jay Carney, John Kelly, Koch brothers, lazy, Medicaid, Medicare, military parade, New Deal, Paul Ryan, racism, Sean Hannity, social security, Steven Mnuchin, stock market, trade deficit, treason, un-American, wealth inequality | 218 Comments

Republicans after adding over $1 trillion to our national debt to fund tax give-aways to the rich, say they can’t find $8 billion to extend health care for 8.9 million children living in poverty

By Mark | December 23, 2017

While sold to the American people as a “middle class tax cut” that wouldn’t help the super-rich like Donald Trump, the tax reform legislation just passed by the Republicans is, in fact, a windfall for the rich that does considerably less for American’s middle class than the Obama stimulus package of 2009 did. Had the […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged #CorkerKickback, America Cares Act, Bob Corker, budget deficit, Children's Health Insurance Program, CHIP, cruelty, Dianne Feinstein, Donald Trump, Ezra Klein, FDR, health care, health insurance, mandates, Medicaid, Medicare, middle class tax cuts, New Deal, Paul Ryan, poverty, Republican lies, social safety net, social security, stimulus, tax reform, tax scam, taxes, the top 1%, threats to the middle class, wealth inequality, welfare | 8 Comments

Psychologist Drew Westen on what happened to Obama

By Mark | August 7, 2011

Psychology professor Drew Westen (Emory University) has a fascinating opinion piece in today’s New York Times. Here’s a clip for those of you who can’t scale the pay wall. …When Barack Obama stepped into the Oval Office, he stepped into a cycle of American history, best exemplified by F.D.R. and his distant cousin, Teddy. After […]

Posted in History, Politics | Also tagged Drew Westen, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, New Deal, Obama, Teddy Roosevelt | 14 Comments

Threats to American workers demand a President like FDR

By Mark | April 4, 2011

Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has a great column about Maine Governor Paul LePage up on the Christian Science Monitor website this evening. LePage, as you’ll recall from our conversation a few days ago, is the man who recently made headlines for ordering murals depicting the advances of organized labor to be painted […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, History, Politics | Also tagged 1936, 40 hour work week, collective bargaining, Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, deregulation, FDR, Frances Perkins, Franklin D. Roosevelt, GE, Jeffrey Immelt, labor, labor history, minimum wage, monopoly, New Deal, Obama, open for business, Paul LePage, privatization, Robert Reich, unions, Wall Street | 11 Comments

Carl Levin’s explanation for voting no on tax cuts for the super-rich

By Mark | December 16, 2010

I just received the following from Michigan Senator Carl Levin, explaining why he chose to vote against the President’s so-called “compromise” with Republicans. I’ve yet to receive anything from Michigan’s other Senator, Debbie Stabenow, explaining why she voted in a favor of the deal, which promises to deliver big tax breaks for the super-rich, ultimately […]