Tax plans: Obama vs. McCain
Let me state at the outset that you can’t know. I don’t just mean that politicians don’t always follow through on campaign pledges, either. Among other things, circumstances change, and the economy is...
View Article"We Are Out Here"– Republicans Speak Truth to McCain’s Lies
We are out here – the Republicans or ex-Republicans who will no longer tolerate the racist, despicable slime machine that the right wing and the John McCain-Sarah Palin campaign has become. One such...
View ArticleCalifornia Unemployment Insurance Fund Going Broke – Economy Failing
It’s one thing to have people out of work and drawing unemployment, but it’s more terrible to be in a position where that unemployment insurance fund is running out of money. According to the San...
View ArticleBAILOUT PROPOSAL – LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL FOR TREASURY AUTHORITY TO PURCHASE...
LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL FOR TREASURY AUTHORITY TO PURCHASE MORTGAGE-RELATED ASSETS Section 1. Short Title. This Act may be cited as ____________________. Sec. 2. Purchases of Mortgage-Related Assets. (a)...
View ArticlePalin avoids imploding during VP debate
Did Governor Palin’s performance change the outcome of the election? Almost certainly not, though she probably did succeed in getting the attention back on Senator McCain. Her answers were obviously...
View ArticleJohn McCain was for ACORN before he was against them.
Bertha Lewis, Chief Organizer of The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) said, “It has deeply saddened us to see Senator McCain abandon his historic support for ACORN and our...
View ArticleNever underestimate the power of a woman.
The U.S. economy continues to reverberate from the policies (or perhaps lack of policies) that the Bush-Cheney administration championed since taking office 8 years ago, and by most accounts we’ve now...
View ArticleThe irony of hope: Obama’s not relying on it
To confront the most profound challenges to our financial system the people of the United States have invested their hope in a former lawyer turned community activist, Barack Obama. In his address to...
View Article$100 billion in green investment = $160 billion PER YEAR!
The Economic Policy Institute recently showed that a $100 billion in green investment annually would yield $160 billion in additional output for each of the next two years, creating approximately 1.1...
View ArticleWhat’s Bart Stupak’s real agenda?
The Committee on Energy and Commerce of the U.S. House of Represenatives has prepared, for all 435 congressional districts, a district-level analysis of the impact of health care reform legislation....
View ArticleRonald Reagan must be rolling in his grave
Former U.S. Representative David Stockman (R-MI), who served as Ronald Reagan’s first director of the Office of Management and Budget, used the forum of the Sunday New York Times to unmask and rebuke...
View ArticleLaser focus on jobs
The good news as Wall Street gives a thumbs-down to the “No taxes, No jobs” deficit-ceiling-deal (with its built-in automatic spending cuts virtually certain to kick in amid more Congressional...
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