Lessons for the “Tea Baggers” on the Bush Recession and Republican...
In November of 2008, while Barack Obama was winning an election, George W. Bush was already planning his exit. In addition to the two...
EXXON or Cap-and-trade? Higher-Gas Prices or a Million New Jobs?
EXXON Oil Corporation has very profitable sales of about $1 billion per day. It also spends more than any other corporation trying to prevent...
A Plan for Jobs and Ending the Recession
There has been talk recently--finally--about creating jobs. The talk has been about using some of the TARP money to create jobs in various sectors....
What Campaign Finance Reform Means for Jobs.
The 2008 election for all federal offices cost over $5 billion. The campaign finance for President alone cost over $1 billion. The election...
Health Care
Over the next month...we hope and expect...the Senate will debate health care. That is, they will try to pass the reform of health care...
The Economy–Will Commercial Real Estate Hold Up Recovery?
The economy is beginning to pick up. Unemployment numbers are falling. About a third of the Stimulus funds are in operation now with more...
The Cost of War in Iraq and Afghanistan
Since 2001, the United States alone has spent over $687 billion on the Iraq war. We have spent over $228 billion on the war...
Tax the Rich.
It is about time that we begin to attack the problem of our inadequate national revenues. We have not had sufficient revenues to balance...
The Public Plan and Private Profit
Sometimes we can become so involved with our own expertise that we can calculate ourselves out the door, down the street and into a...
Jobs, Wind, Solar, Natural Gas, Kerry, Boxer, Carbon and the Obstructionists
We need jobs and we need them soon. We have about 15.1 million people unemployed, with jobs falling now at the (slowing) rate of...
The Big Lie
The Big Lie. We know what that is...the concept, that is. It is not a new concept. It is the idea that if you...
The Economy, the Stimulus and Coming Out of the Recession
Economists like to say that the current recession began in December of 2007. But things had not been going well for the average American...
Free Enterprise Is the Province of All Americans, Neo-Conservatives and Liberals.
The United States of America is the land of free enterprise. We base all our political and many of our personal decisions on that...
The Two Big Issues: Jobs and Health Care Reform.
Sunday in October and Congress is back and pundits are shouting over one another on the morning talk shows. Even married political-pundit couples who...
Join In an Economic Revolution
Rather than complaining about our lives, our incomes, our ability to maintain some kind of minimal lifestyle, it may be time to do what...