Patriotism, Unions and The Middle Class
It is one of the great hypocritical aspects of the public debate in America–on the one hand, the politicians and talking heads who strut around bragging about how great our country is and, on the...
View ArticleWall Street Is No General Motors: A Missed Opportunity
I applaud the president for trying to impose some new and renewed standards to try to make sure that what happened on Wall Street doesn’t happen again. But, we are about to miss an...
View ArticleAmerican Dream Done: WSG–Steep, Lasting Drop in Wages
The jobs crisis is really devastating. We all know the numbers on how many people are out of work. But, the truth is that just calling for more jobs is not enough–because what we lack in the country is...
View ArticleRichard Trumka V. Goldman Sachs: Different Visions of America
You can’t find a better contrast between the vision for our country than those offered by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Goldman Sachs. One vision sees America as the land of equality and...
View ArticleKill Pensions For Regular People But Let The Rich Slide
Each day brings a stupefying new chapter in the class warfare underway in America. Today, it’s the unfathomable idea that regular people who had worked their entire lives serving the public should...
View ArticleOur Demand: INCREASE SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS
I think we are making a mistake, both economically and politically, by confining our defense of Social Security to an argument about simply preserving current benefits. We should be pushing for an...
View ArticleThe Lies About Pensions: Shortfalls and Solutions
You’ve heard (and, in some cases, unfortunately, been persuaded) that "generous" pensions given to public employees has caused great deficits in pensions and state budgets. It’s nonsense. And here...
View ArticleStop The Deficit Silliness: Even OECD Says High Unemployment Is The Crisis
My head hurts every time I read about the phony crisis about the debt and the deficit–whether it be the idiotic headlines bowing down to the rating agencies’ hand-wringing (the same bozos who did...
View ArticleFinancial Times: “Top dogs take bigger slice of spoils”
It’s a head-scratcher–to some. Wealth has been created globally but, somehow, a suffocating blanket of austerity is embracing the world. But it would be no surprise to the people in the streets in...
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