This Fall’s Election is Not about Policies and Programs – It’s About Right and Wrong
By Robert Creamer
There is a tendency among people who spend their lives working to promote policy positions, Members of Congress, Congressional staffs, and even the media to discuss political issues in terms of public policy.
I don’t mean simply […]
Leo W. Gerard
International President, United Steelworkers
September 3, 2010
On Labor Day, Work to Save the Middle Class
This Labor Day feels gloomy. It’s a celebration of work when there is not enough of it, a day off when too many desperately seek a day on.
America has commemorated two Labor Days since […]
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Rich Trumka is talking this Labor Day about the need for Economic Patriotism. It’s a message/theme we think will resonate–certainly among working people and the millions of jobless workers–and one that certainly can apply in many ways: EG: Corporations acting anti-patriotic by moving jobs out of this country. (In the much-discussed New York Times artilcle […]
Congressman Castle (R-DE) seems to think that shareholders should not control how their money is spent on politics. Castle seems to think that the employees of the shareholders (corporate executives) should have the right to spend others people’s money even if the majority of shareholders are opposed.
Shareholder Protection Act Stands on Shaky Legs
Wednesday 04 […]
Is the Republican Victory Plan Another Great Depression?
It seems like the Republicans in Congress have decided that sabotaging economic recovery and employment growth is their best tactic for electoral gains in the November elections. Indications of this plan have been around since the Democratic victories in 2008. It seems that all doubt about facilitating the […]
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July 29, 2010 […]
The Tea Party “Catch 22”
The Tea Party movement has started to come unglued over a series of internal contradictions that amount to an identity crisis. The Tea Party is caught in a “Catch 22” position that has largely been ignored by the corporate mainstream media.
Just this morning I watched a local PBS show where a […]
DNC Memo
From: Brad Woodhouse, Communications Director, Democratic National Committee
To: Interested Parties
Date: July 15, 2010
RE: Putting Voter Sentiment and Recent Polls in their Proper Perspective
Voter Support for Democrats Exceeds Support for Party […]
DEMS, GOP READING SAME POLL
House Democrats gathered on yesterday to discuss the results of a national survey on the deficit and manufacturing that House Republicans were passing around late last week. Digging into the survey, which was paid for by the Alliance for American Manufacturing and done by Dem Mark Mellman and GOPer Whit […]
Free Trade Agreement with Korea will cost U.S. jobs
Robert E. Scott
July 1, 2010
The Obama administration has announced that it intends to finalize a new free trade agreement with South Korea (KORUS FTA) in time for the next G-20 summit in November. Although the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) projects this will have a […]