Voting doesn’t work anymore. If it did, Americans would get what they want — or at least some of it — from Washington. But they don’t. Instead of the people’s priority, which is jobs, country club conservatives in Congress stubbornly fixate on deficits. Instead of ensuring millionaires...
Americans have been worshiping a bull. Too many citizens, and particularly politicians, prostrate themselves to Wall Street’s bronze idol. They revere financial titans who pay themselves and their minions millions to manipulate money and gamble recklessly. Politicians gave tribute to the financiers with tax breaks and...
Republicans jammed together a mess of old, failed and vague schemes and called it a jobs bill. Sen. John McCain conceded the reason for the rehash: “Part of it is in response to the president saying we don’t have a proposal.” They still don’t. This despite...
As the Occupy Wall Street movement spread across the nation last week, politicians in D.C. flipped the bird at protesters – including those camping in Washington’s McPherson Square. Here’s how: While occupiers sought political focus on the unemployment, impoverishment and foreclosures suffered by the nation’s non-rich...
Given what’s been going on in the United States since the bank bailout, it’s amazing that Occupy Wall Street didn’t precede the Arab Spring. The powers-that-be, from the rich to their coin-operated politicians, have mocked and belittled and ignored the protesters, the 99 percenters as...
America is being played. The U.S. allowed China to join the club of trading partners in the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 under the condition that China observe club rules. Over the past decade, however, China has profited immeasurably by ignoring, flouting and circumventing the rules...
A long time ago, in an historical America, lawmakers determined a progressive tax code to be the fairest and most logical for all. The legislators asked more of those who had benefitted most from the advantages America provides. They asked less of those who benefitted least. As...
Labor Day: Build Esprit de Corps for Action Celebrate Labor Day. Really, celebrate. It’s important. Wear a t-shirt announcing to the world the name of your union and march in a parade, chanting and whooping it up about how glad you are to belong to an organization...
Pittsburgh, PA—(ENEWSPF)—July 26, 2011. Leslie Marshall, host of the The Leslie Marshall Show, talks with United Steelworkers (USW) President Leo W. Gerard about Republican representation, deficits and tax cuts. Read the rest of the story here...
Right-wing pundits attack Obama for Brazil trip A brigade of conservative critics, led by Fox News, accuses the president of taking a "vacation" during crisis President Obama is in Brazil this weekend as part of a five-day tour through South America. While the focus of the trip...