Economy and Business
Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?
With the economy foundering like a man overboard in heavy seas, we’ve attempted to rescue it by throwing it an anchor. We’ve put productive public workers on the street in the name of fiscal prudence. We’ve backed away from the building of the roads, bridges, and other public works vital to a vibrant economy. We’ve cut back on our investment in public education, stunting the best hope for future prosperity.
Illegal Foreclosure Epidemic
Two-year-olds often go running around the house too wildly and crash into something. They get an “ouchie” and fall down crying, but they learn from it.
What would FDR Do?
How much can a U.S. president committed to greater equality hope to accomplish when lawmakers devoted to helping the rich hold the upper hand?
America’s Real Job Creators are Broke
Our policymakers in Washington have totally lost sight of what’s happening at the ranch. John Boehner’s GOP-controlled House and Barack Obama’s White House have agreed to slash trillions of dollars from the federal budget, as though that’s America’s most important need. Bovine excrement! If they’d lift their vision to the countryside, even they could figure out that our great economic urgency is for the creation of good, middle-class jobs to get America moving again — moving upward and moving together.
Raised Ceiling
Budgeting for the Great American Train Wreck
It’s Aug. 1, 2011. Does President Barack Obama know where House votes for that last-minute budget deal are?
Blame the No-Way Party for the Debt Ceiling Collision
There are those who will tell you that the debt ceiling crisis is a bipartisan production and both sides are to blame. Don’t believe them.
A Right-Wing Jobs Program for America
Attention jobless Americans! If you’re among the millions of long-term unemployed people searching in vain for a job, here’s a hot tip: they’re hiring in Wisconsin.
Shredding the Safety Net
There’s widespread poverty in America today, though it’s sometimes hard to see how bad it is. Real estate development techniques and zoning rules, plus a healthy dollop of discrimination, force most poor people to live and work in neighborhoods many of us don’t often visit.
America Doesn’t Need a Tax-Dodging Industry
Like a pack of men in suits mud wrestling, Washington’s budget battle would be entertaining to watch if we the people weren’t about to get hurt.
