Working Life

   I saw this just now. We need to keep alive the memories of those miners who died because of greed and avarice.    On the NYTimes website just now: In the first comprehensive state report on the 2010 coal mine disaster in West Virginia, an independent team of investigators put the blame squarely on […]

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    I think Carl Levin knows the dance underway. His investigation into the financial meltdown is over. He has forwarded his findings to the Justice Department for civil or criminal action. And, now, I suspect he thinks there will be an attempt to bury the whole mess–and the specific role Goldman Sachs played in the […]

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    Ha! You wonder, why I would praise one of the people most determined to destroy a decent government? Because he may have single-handidly cratered the idiotic "Gang of Six". So, for that, he deserves praise.    The whole premise of the "Gang of Six"–Democratic Sens. Mark Warner, Dick Durbin and Kent Conrad and Republican […]

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   It’s bad enough that the global financial crisis has put millions of people out of work and trashed the future of the ranks of workers everywhere. But, let’s take a moment to consider an undercurrent of the economic crisis, fanned by fear, stupidity and the relentless drive to cut government (oh, that comes under […]

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    I have been arguing for some time now that the deficit and debt "crisis" are completely made up and phony. There is no crisis. But, at the very least, if you want to get rid of deficits, there is a simple path: spend MORE on jobs and raise incomes by promoting broad unionization. California […]

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    This past week, I made the point that the conviction of Raj Rajaratnam was a tale of a relatively little fish getting nabbed, while the big fish who caused the biggest disaster and heartache for most Americans get away. Or cover-up what they have done. Bank of America, Citigroup, G.M.A.C., JPMorgan Chase and Wells […]

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   Wall St was rumbling yesterday as we clogged the streets with a message: {attachment id=164 size=medium}    No reason to have teachers cut or Medicare slashed. Make them pay.

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   The man behind the curtain is working hard, I’ll tell you. The spectacle out front, full of blaring headlines and prosecutors hype, tells us: we got those bad guys. Really? Nonsense.     We’ve all read about this: Federal prosecutors in Manhattan accused Raj Rajaratnam, the chief of the Galleon Group, of being at the […]

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     Earlier today, I wrote about John Boehner’s very loose connection to the actual facts of our economic crisis. Well, in the meantime, Boehner is in trouble with the facts and a whole bunch of Catholic professors. To wit: More than 75 professors at Catholic University and other prominent Catholic colleges have written a […]

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   Rhetoric is a good thing–except when you have the facts wrong. And, boy, the relentless, daily idiocy spewed out of the mouths of our elected officials about the economic crisis is astonishing. Consider, this morning, Speaker of the House John Boehner. Two days ago, Boehner gave a speech to the Economic Club of New […]

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