Working Life

    Do not get distracted by the claims by people who want your vote. Nothing has changed. The robbery of the wealth of the country continues. And the rhetoric aiding and abetting the robbery is going to get ramped up around corporate tax cuts.     Let’s start with the hardship sweeping the country…It’s been a […]

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    I think we make a mistake describing the unrelenting class warfare underway as a campaign undertaken by evil, crazed or demented very rich people. Sure, there are a few of them and it is certainly a part of an ideological belief ("we rich people are just better and more skilled and tough luck"). But, […]

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   I have a small amount of sympathy for Kent Conrad, even though he is one of the leading obsessed people about the phony deficit crisis. He is one of the so-called "Gang of Six" in the Senate working to come up with a "bi-partisan" solution to the phony crisis. But, things are tough: Kent […]

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   My head hurts every time I read about the phony crisis about the debt and the deficit–whether it be the idiotic headlines bowing down to the rating agencies’ hand-wringing (the same bozos who did such a good job blessing the financial instrument trash churned out by Wall Street) or the daily headlines about a […]

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   A few days ago, I took part in a meeting organized by the AFL-CIO to launch a new publication called "Exiting From The Crisis"–a roadmap for a new global economy. The main speaker at the small meeting was Joseph Stiglitz. He outlined some great points and realities about the economic crisis with the bottom […]

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   I’m about to dash off to a protest at the main postal office here in Manhattan for a Tax Day demonstration sponsored by US Uncut, the NY chapter of the Coffee Party and assorted other malcontents like me. In that spirit, I thought it worth leaving us with this list of the corporate tax […]

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   Let’s get this one out of the way–of course I, and others, should support Obama’s re-election for one reason and one reason only: the Bush tax cuts. My guess is, looking at today’s landscape, which could change, that the Democrats lose the Senate and the House stays with the lunatics. For one reason and […]

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   We keep repeating the same mistake–no matter how many times good progressive leaders, writers, thinkers and activists use the word "framing". And we are at it again–offering "better proposals" to address the debt-deficit "crisis". But, we should be saying something much different: there simply is NO debt or deficit "crisis".     As I write […]

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    Yesterday, I wrote about how much money Paul Ryan pockets from the insurance industry–and how the health care part of the industry was going to make out like bandits in the Ryan budget proposal. This is worth digging into a bit more because you can learn very quickly how the Ryan budget truly boils […]

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   Yesterday, I wrote that we should not "insult" Rep. Paul Ryan–but we should rip his scary, fraudulent budget to shreds with facts and a competing vision of America. So, to work: not that this would surprise anyone but Ryan’s biggest contributor to his campaigns has been the insurance industry–including the health care part of […]

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