Working Life

   We can wait until the next inevitable capitulation–anyone want to take bets on the Bush tax cut expiration deal?–or we can keep debating about what has already, predictably, happened. We can complain about the Tea Party, FOX News etc–but I confess to being bored by that discussion simply because, get over it, they are […]

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    We are wasting our breathe.  The president, and, respectfully, a significant number of Democrats, long ago signaled that they were going to choose a horrendous path for the country by embracingthe phony debt and deficit "crisis". We are here, on a day of complete capitulation, because of a very long march–years in the making–of […]

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   The hammer that Verizon is seeking to bring down on its unionized workers is an important story–and the importance is being sorely missed, or at least, buried in everything I have read so far. It’s a story that typifies the broad class warfare underway in America: warfare that is happening largely because corporate executives […]

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   I find myself laughing at this–part in disgust and part in admiration for a group of people who have no shame and just do not care what happens to regular people in the country. On the one hand, we have a monumental jobs catastrophe underway. And, on the other hand, you have the people […]

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   My friends say, correctly, that I should not waste my time reading Tom Friedman. Yes, true. But, I dipped into his moronic column yesterday mainly because it’s in the same non-reality based theme that is a plague everywhere–we need "shared sacrifice" to make the cuts "needed". Spare me.     Dumb stuff: Yes, we have […]

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   Here is part of our predicament. The Tea Party-Republican wing of the political space is filled with lunatics–they want to turn the country back to the 1920s. Too many Democrats have forgotten what it once meant to be a "Democrat". But, the plague of disinformation and stupidity that will cost people their lives is […]

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  Just to return some reality to the discussion–and reassert facts made a number of times by a variety of people…though I argue that there is no debt or deficit "crisis", if you want to figure out where the money is, it’s all about war, corporate welfare and the Bush tax cuts. This needs to […]

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   The newest scam comes courtesy of the airline industry. When Republicans, in their lunatic mode, refused to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration, several federal taxes on tickets expired, including a 7.5% sales tax on domestic tickets, a $3.70-per-takeoff segment fee, and a $16.30 charged on international arrival and departures. Aha, you would think, ticket […]

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Last week, I posted a piece, suggesting that the current crisis was really about us and the lack of a movement, not about Obama. A number of people reacted, in emails to me, particularly about the Three Grand Myths–and, over the weekend, I heard yet more nonsense on the Three Grand Myths theme. So, I […]

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    The anger against the president that has been rocketing around many circles of liberal/progressive politics is misplaced.     The crisis we face isn’t about what the president is doing, or failing to do.     We are under siege, fighting the greatest class warfare in perhaps 100 years. And we can expect very […]

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