Tag Archives: income disparity
Ending Roosevelt’s New Deal
The anti-government rhetoric of the Republican Party and their Tea Party allies is rapidly coming into focus. Their increasingly radical agenda is no less than to roll the clock back to the early 1930s, to the days before the election … Continue reading
Tea Party Extortion
When the initial threat of a federal government shutdown was averted earlier this month, the Republican/Tea party game plan was revealed for what it was, high stakes political extortion. In threatening to shut down federal government operations, the Republican/Tea Party … Continue reading
Misplaced Union Envy
Millions of Americans have lost their jobs and homes since the financial collapse of 2008. Tens of millions more are in fear of losing their jobs and homes. Conservatives and tea party activists have chosen to blame the government and … Continue reading
The Difficult Problem of the Unemployed
Unemployment in the US stood at 9.6 percent last month. That was considerably higher than expected when the fledgling Obama administration economic team projected in January 2009 that unemployment would go no higher than 8 percent. The number of underemployed … Continue reading
Our Fearful Middle Class
A growing, thriving middle class has long been understood as the key to political stability. That’s been true throughout history, just as it is today. You look around the world and where you see a middle class population under stress, … Continue reading