Working Life

Even Paul Ryan, the odious Speaker of the House, is in the electoral crosshairs and has a good shot at losing in the 2018 midterm elections. The man who is up to the task is Randy Bryce, better known in the Twitterverse as @ironstache. Randy joins me for a talk about politics, his campaign and […]

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Here is something almost no one is talking about but I take it up in this podcast: the repeal of Obamacare, along with its immoral tossing millions of people off health coverage, will cost the country 3 million jobs and $1.5 trillion in economic activity. I break this down for all of us in simple […]

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Just so we’re clear, and this bears repeating even if it is obvious, the richest people in the country are going to, once again, be the gift of more welfare-for-the-rich under the tax proposals of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan–while, just by the numbers, lower income people will get hit with a tax increase. Don’t you love this system?

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Oh, Goldilocks. If you only knew how much you were needed in this big, bad budget fight. Cuz one of the budgets is, to paraphrase your wise words, just too damn loony (courtesy of Paul Ryan), one just leaves anyone who wants a sane society feeling a bit cold (thank you Sen. Patti Murray) but one is just right (a big bow for the Congressional Progressive Caucus).

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Yesterday, I asked how it is possible that people who are either raving lunatics (read: Michelle Bachmann) or just simply have loony ideas, which are just covers for ripping off the country, still get taken seriously. Paul Ryan, take a bow.

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Why are certain people taken seriously? It still astonishes me — and maybe it’s a sad comment on the level of debate — but it’s just amazing that anyone still listens to people like Paul Ryan, Newt Gingrich and the lot. They are just nuts.

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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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    Look, it is easy to jump all over the very dangerous budget proposal put forth by  Republican Paul Ryan–dangerous in what it would mean for any semblance of a decent society. I give a lot of credit to Ryan–he, at least, is clear about the ideology he represents. It’s not hidden. We can’t change […]

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