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 |
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 |
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 […]
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 |
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 […]
Posted in Economics, Michigan | Also tagged Bush tax cuts, Carl Levin, Debbie Stabenow, estate tax, middle class, New Deal, Obama, Obama's unwillingness to fight, taxing the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, the plight of the overtaxed rich |