Tag Archives: tax cuts

A now-profitable General Motors, having been bailed out by the people of Michigan, repays them with massive layoffs and the shuttering of facilities in Hamtramck and Warren

By Mark | November 26, 2018

Back in 2016, while on the campaign trail, Donald Trump made the following promise to Michigan’s automotive workers. “If I’m elected, you won’t lose one plant, you’ll have plants coming into this country, you’re going to have jobs again, you won’t lose one plant, I promise you that,” he said. Well, General Motors announced today […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alternative Energy, automotive bailout, autonomous vehicles, bailout, Baltimore, beyond fossil fuel, cheap labor, Chevy Volt, China, Detroit, Donald Trump, electric vehicles, factories, General Motors, global climate change, GM, greed, Hamtramck, Lordstown, manufacturing, Mary Barra, Mexico, mobility, offshore manufacturing, Ohio, outsourcing, Sherrod Brown, SUVs, Terry Dittes, UAW, Warren | 27 Comments

With midterms approaching, the evil of the right is on full display

By Mark | October 23, 2018

With the midterms fast approaching, and the prospect of both houses of Congress, as well as several statehouses, potentially flipping, Republicans across the country are becoming increasingly desperate. And, as you might imagine, this desperation is manifesting itself in truly terrible ways. In Texas, with the young, dynamic Beto O’Rourke gaining momentum, Ted Cruz has […]

Posted in History, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Gillum, anti-immigration, anti-Semitism, asylum, attempted murder, Beto O'Rourke, Bill Kristol, Brian Kemp, caravan, Central America, civility, conspiracy theory, cowardice, Dan Pfeifer, Donald Trump, exact match, fascism, fear mongering, Florida, George Soros, Georgia, gerrymandering, Greg Gianforte, Hannah Arendt, incitement to violence, journalism, lying, MAGA, Medicaid, Medicare, middle class tax cuts, midterm elections, Mike Pence, pipe bombs, political violence, racism, Richard Linklater, robocalls, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Secretary of State, Senate, Stacey Abrams, Ted Cruz, terrorism, Texas, threats of violence, threats to journalists, voter fraud, voter suppression | 43 Comments

A big “thank you” to all those who died in the Chicago rail yards so that we might have the day off to grill hot dogs… Happy Labor Day

By Mark | September 2, 2018

I know it’s probably cheating, but here’s something that I posted more than half a decade ago on the occasion of Labor Day. If anything, I think it’s even more appropriate today, seeing as how Michigan has since become a so-called “right to work” state, and we now how have an unquestionably anti-worker administration running […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Adam Schiff, Alexander Acosta, American Railway Union, anti-worker, Chicago, company town, Donald Trump, Eugene Debs, Governor Altgeld, Grover Cleveland, Illinois, Marvin Kaplan, Patrick Pizzella, Pullman, Pullman Palace Car Company, Pullman strike, Richard Olney, Socialism, strikes, the threat of Socialism, unions, William Emanuel, workers rights | 9 Comments

When all that’s left is fear and hate

By Mark | August 23, 2018

Since news broke a few days ago that the President’s former personal attorney had pled guilty to numerous felonies, naming the President himself as a co-conspirator, things haven’t been looking so good for the Trump administration. And Donald Trump has responded just like the organized crime boss that we know him to be, talking openly […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Africa, Africanisation of the plane, Afriforum, anti-immigrant, apartheid, arming teachers, Barack Obama, Betsy DeVos, Civil War, co-conspirator, conspiracy theory, David Duke, Donald Trump, flipping, FOX News, guns in schools, hope, incels, Ku Klux Klan, Mike Peinovich, Mike Pompeo, Mollie Tibbetts, MS-13, murder, Newt Gingrich, Obama, Omarosa Manigault Newman, optimism, Patrick Gaspard, race baiting, race war, racial animus, racism, rats, Richard Nixon, Rudy Giuliani, South Africa, tax reform, the canary in the cole mine, turning state's evidence, unindicted co-conspirator, white genocide, white nationalism | 24 Comments

Trump’s chief economic advisor tells the American people that Republican tax cuts created so much growth that the deficit is falling. They didn’t. And it’s not.

By Mark | June 30, 2018

.@larry_kudlow: "The deficit… is coming down, and it's coming down rapidly. Growth solves a lot of problems." pic.twitter.com/H375h7rV0a — FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) June 29, 2018 Again, I know it doesn’t do any good to point out the blatant lies of the right, or speculate as to how certain things might have been treated differently by […]

Posted in Economics, Uncategorized | Also tagged budget deficit, deficit, Larry Kudlow | 425 Comments