Obama's middle class tax cut may not survive budget. So read the ABC News headline. I was reminded of Bush Sr.’s “no new taxes” rhetoric and more of the same from his successor Bill Clinton. Is it realistic to expect Obama to hold true to his promises of a middle class...
opinion by robehren | 34 wks ago 136 views | 10 recommendations | 0 comments
Vice-President Joe Biden will head a Middle Class Task Force with the goal of connecting workers to government during this time of economic crisis and mass job losses. The task force was re-introduced today...
created by Tina Kells | 42 wks ago | updated 42 wks ago 72 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
"Barack Obama made 510 promises when he was running for president, a list that is stunning in its scope and leaves almost no part of the executive branch untouched, according to a new analysis by PolitiFact. " I...
Monday in Chicago President-elect Barack Obama announced his four member Economic Team and handed the team a mandate of initiating programs to ensure "aggressive economic recovery." Central to the...
created by Tina Kells | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 140 views | 5 recommendations | 3 comments
McCain Meanders in Virginia, Says "We've got them just where we want them." OhioNewsBureau by John Michael Spinelli Columbus, Ohio: Because anxiety runs high in Ohio over lost jobs, homes and retirement savings, it's no wonder Democratic presidential nominee Barack...
created by OhioNewsBureau | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 69 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has...
opinion by White Noise | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 904 views | 36 recommendations | 18 comments
Sitting out in the car last fall waiting for Diana to step out of the last remaining department store in a dilapidated mall that had been dying slowly for a few short years, it occurred to me that the moment represented the collapse of our nation. This store was closing its...
created by rpairan | 1 year ago 159 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
http://structuraleconissues.blogspot.com The cackles can be heard coming from behind every wall of this ‘windowless dirty room’ that where trapped within - with little or no hope of escape. Don’t worry every now and then they’ll throw us a dark moldy piece of stale...
created by rpairan | 1 year ago 121 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
"You have probably heard about Bono's Vanity Fair issue on Africa. The Irish rocker caused quite a stir when he chose to use 21 celebrities and 20 different magazine covers. His hope was that this issue would make Africa important and sexy to the magazine's audiences in the...
created by paschals | 2 years ago 187 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
There was an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal titled Why Job Market Is Sagging in the Middle
but since there is a subscriber firewall in place at WSJ.com you might
as well only click on the link if you...
created by BigT | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1287 views | 2 recommendations | 2 comments
"In looking at the various instances of bad economic news over the last few days, I've been struck once again by how the supposedly rational, logical, God-forbid-we-regulate-it-because-it-works-fine-on-its-own free market is driven by the very human fears, frailties, and...
"In America, the Republicans are seen as the party of money and wealth. This perception is certainly accurate in one sense - the GOP is the favored party of the wealthy elite. Unfortunately, the party is also supported in large numbers by those who have no wealth, and thanks...
The insurance companies are always lookin to screw the working class - my insurance rates jsut SKY ROCKETED to $600/month with out warning this month!! now this..."Metropolitan Life is putting Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village — a stretch of 110 apartment buildings...
created by slimshady | 3 years ago 1431 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments