Working Life

   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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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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    We still aren’t clear enough about what has happened: the corporate media has framed the debate about the phony debt and deficit "crisis" so adroitly that the back-and-forth on this debate is largely about how much to screw the average person in America, not whether to screw the average person in America. Sorry to […]

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   If you aren’t willing to stand up to the greed and robbery going on in the country, here’s what happens: For the first time a generic “Republican Party candidate” is favored by a statistically significant margin over President Barack Obama, the Gallup polling firm said. According to a Gallup poll released Thursday, 47% of […]

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   You hear that great sucking sound? It’s the hundreds of billions of corporate dollars that flood to off-shore tax havens. Time to turn off the spigot… There is some movement here: Saying that offshore tax havens deprive the United States Treasury of tens of billions of dollars of revenue a year, two senior Democratic […]

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   It is true that no one knows for sure whether the president will sign off on cuts to Social Security. The problem is that the track record is not good–and this is a president who is a terrible negotiator. So, the Progressive Caucus isn’t waiting and has sent a letter which says in part: […]

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   Math is a pretty simple thing–except if you are an elected member of Congress engaging in misdirection, blaming the wrong people and a healthy dose of cognitive dissonance (which requires that you reconcile conflicting realities by blaming, justifying or denying the truth). Which brings us to: why do we have deficits? Well, at least […]

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   Those bills are also called the so-called "free trade" deals with Colombia, South Korea and Panama. The president is making a concerted push to get these bills rammed through Congress by August. Which just boggles the mind.    Let’s focus today mostly on Colombia, a place that is a dangerous place for trade unionists, […]

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