"Words that make actions speak louder."
It’s a wet, rainy day in Washington D.C. Enough to soak anyone who stands outside long enough. But it wasn’t enough to put out the fiery anger of hundreds of activists who took to the streets of the capitol today, to deliver a message to Wall Street’s K Street lobbyists: Stop standing in the way […]
For Billionaire Mort Zuckerman it’s those damn unions that are the problem. For so many of the rest of us the problem is that we don’t have a union. Zuckerman has been with us on lots of things, like what he wrote about the stimulus, “The fiscal program was a disaster. You have to get […]
Friends of the financially fortunate are trying to turn reality upside-down — and save our undertaxed rich mega billions in the process. But two new sets of data can help us set the record straight. Taxes on the wealthy in the United States run low. Many wealthy Americans want these taxes to run even lower. […]
“Budgetball is an innovative sport that combines fiscal strategy and physical play.” – Budgetball Rulebook, “Pass the Ball – Not The Buck” Billionaire Pete Peterson is funding an elaborate campaign to convince a nation with more than 15 million unemployed citizens that the most urgent crisis we face today is not unemployment … or poverty, […]
As the debate over the climate bill heats up, there’s one rule of thumb that may help you keep your bearings as the rhetoric becomes more gaseous and the weeds grow ever higher around the facts. It’s this: There are, in the end, only four possible futures here. Future 1 is Continuation — more business […]
It is hard to imagine out here in the real world, but there seem to be people in the Congress who think they can get (or deserve to be) re-elected when they are failing to do anything about jobs or extending unemployment and COBRA with unemployment at 10%, underemployment at 17%,and forecasts that say t
You and I pay income tax on our income. But if your income comes from having really, really wealthy parents you are entitled to really, really special treatment because that is how democracy plutocracy works. In the news: Kyl: Deal on the estate tax in the offing, Sources close to the matter told The Hill […]
What’s the old saying about hose who cannot learn from history? Well, here we go again. In the news: Oil, Chinese imports boost U.S. trade deficit, Growing imports of oil and Chinese goods pushed the U.S. trade deficit to its highest level in 15 months in March. The Commerce Department said U.S. exports totaled $147.9 […]
The top Republican fundraiser in the Senate, John Cornyn of Texas, just gave a preposterous speech on Wall Street reform in which he pushed the plan recently promoted recently by disgraced J.P. Morgan Economist James Glassman. Cornyn is opposing the use of a “resolution mechanism,” which he and other Republicans like Sen. John Ensign are […]
Corporate CEOs, union-busting lawyers, and conservative politicians who pander to the rich condemned a National Mediation Board (NMB) Ruling this week. They complained that the NMB gave railway and airline workers the ability to obtain collective bargaining rights through majority-rule elections. That’s the type of balloting that occurs under universal democratic rules. Everyone qualified to […]