Working Life

   Yesterday, I was back doing the hard stuff…not in the drinking area (though, actually, I did have a bit of Glenlivet later in the day). No, the hard stuff is trying to have an intelligent conversation with anyone associated with the so-called "free trade" wing of the world. In this case, I was asked […]

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Check out this video about HAARM Healthy Americans Against Reforming Medicine, featuring stars like Glenn Beck, Rick Scott and Zach Wamp. The video is the love child of SEIU and Living Liberally. I wrote this one, so I like to think of myself as the DNA. Or RNA.  

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The other day, I saw an amazing spectacle: a firefighter responded to a call to a burning building in New York City and, as he was dragging the fire hose to the fire, a crowd of angry people stopped him and said, "Stop. Your pension is too generous so don’t you dare put that fire […]

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   i’ve never liked the nonsense about the importance of the political "center". As I see it, that has basically been a cop-out–a fear of confronting the people who want to continue to rip-off the workers of the country by promoting the notion that the "center" requires that taxes be low (meaning, taxes on the […]

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   There has been a lot of debate when it comes to the question of "green jobs"–what exactly is a "green job"? And when some people call for "high paying, good jobs" in the new "green" industries, does that also mean those jobs are UNION jobs?    A little taste of the question comes from […]

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   Allegedly: The total number of U.S. workers claiming state unemployment benefits plunged at the start of June by their largest amount since November 2001, breaking a streak of 21-straight increases in a rare reprieve for the unemployed in this recession. But new jobless claims rose slightly as expected last week, suggesting that while job […]

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   I may be wrong about this but, excuse me, why exactly is the president extending new powers to the Federal Reserve Board as part of his new proposal to reregulate the financial services industry? The New York Times doesn’t even bother to dig into this but The Wall Street Journal does: The Fed emerges […]

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I just finished reading the Congressional Budget Office’s report to Sen. Ted Kennedy which looked at the Affordable Health Choices Act. And the report makes clear why single-payer is the only logical economic choice for health care.   Respectfully, none of the best Democratic bills are going to solve the coverage crisis nor the economic […]

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   From time to time, I try to remind folks that there is a strong link between foreign policy and economics. Here is an example, courtesy of the International Labor Organization: The annual report of the International Labour Office (ILO) on the situation of workers of the occupied Arab territories depicts “ a dismal human, […]

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   We can, and will, have differences with the president and his Administration on issues, particularly on the shaping of economic policy (single-payer, Mr. President). But, it’s nice to see that we at least have a leader who understands what a picket line is: Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and other top Obama administration […]

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