Republicans Block Jobs Bill for Veterans in Senate

"The Republican Party has made 'jobs' the central them of their party and Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, but today they blocked a vote on a veterans jobs bill with a filibuster in the Senate. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) led the filibuster against the the bill, claiming...

Mitt Romney Promises to Create 12 Million Jobs, Doesn't Say How

"Last night at the Republican National Convention, Mitt Romney accepted the nomination for President of the United States (video here). The theme of his speech was jobs. Romney promised that he would create 12 million jobs, but didn't say exactly how. Nor did he mention ...

The Bigger Question: Poverty

In this quintessential election year the American public faces a most daunting reality. From this summers massive devastation of harvestable food crops, the ongoing financial crisis here and in Europe, with mounting tensions in Iran, and the ever persistent civil war in...

Government and Health of Economy

Economy and its relation to the government is akin to a person in his relation to a doctor. While the economy is healthy, there is no need for the government intervention, and government intervention does more harm than good. When the economy gets seriously sick, it does take...

Sobering Times

While practically every economist has predicted that the economy in the United States had begun a slow methodic climb out of the doldrums that America experienced following the financial crisis of 2008 they may have been be a bit too optimistic. When you look at the...

An American Saga

 

What Are They Thinking?

With the United States still immersed in an economic nightmare of which much of it has to do with all the debt that has literally ravaged this country, it is especially this nations student loans that continues to delay any semblance of an economic recovery. The Student...

Slavery Is Alive And Well: The Malfeasance Of Wal-Mart

When we think of War-Mart we conjure up images of discount everything from food to TV's to clothing. Through the years from humble beginnings they gradually expanded. But, for the past 20 years Wal-Mart has exploded on to the international stage as the one mega retailer...

College Graduates Shortchanged

It is graduation time again. A time where celebrations commence after commencement ceremonies. A time of reflections of the past years of college. A time now time to put all that training and knowledge to use in a job in which all those years of education that training was...

Obama makes economic case online

From Newsmax: Obama Makes Economic Case at Online SummitPresident Barack Obama defended his economic policies during an impromptu appearance at this week's White House summit of key advisers and editors of influential online news sites.“First of all, I think it’s just...