They Still Don’t Get It
By BOB HERBERT
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/opinion/23herbert.html?ref=opinion
How loud do the alarms have to get? There is an economic emergency in the country with millions upon millions of Americans riddled with fear and anxiety as they struggle with long-term joblessness, home foreclosures, personal bankruptcies and dwindling opportunities for themselves and their children.
The door is being […]
Grayson: Court’s Campaign Finance Decision “Worst Since Dred Scott”
By Nick Baumann
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/01/grayson-courts-campaign-finance-decision-worst-dredd-scott
Alan Grayson, the first-term Democratic congressman from central Florida, really didn’t like Thursday’s Supreme Court decision legalizing unlimited corporate spending in election campaigns. “It’s the worst Supreme Court decision since the Dred Scott case,” he told me last night. In Dred Scott, Grayson explained, the […]
Nine-Million-Member Union Coalition Calls For Defeat Of Cadillac Tax
by Sam Stein
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/nine-million-member-union_n_420524.html
A coalition of federal and postal employees, numbering nearly nine million members, sent a letter to congressional leaders on Tuesday insisting that the final health care bill not include an excise tax on high-end insurance plans.
Sixteen unions penned the letter amidst increasingly tense negotiations between […]
Jan. 11, 2010
Greetings everyone,
As many of you know, last year the Cecil County Young Democrats organized a team for the MS walk that was held at the University of Delaware. In our first effort, the group raised over $500 for the MS Society. This year we are doing it again, and hope to raise $1,000 […]
The Other Plot to Wreck America
by Frank Rick, New York Times
THERE may not be a person in America without a strong opinion about what coulda, shoulda been done to prevent the underwear bomber from boarding that Christmas flight to Detroit. In the years since 9/11, we’ve all become counterterrorists. But in the 16 months […]
Obama is totally wrong in backing the tax provisions of the Senate version of the healthcare reform bill. Taxing health insurance benefits (like the Senate bill does) is a tax on the middle class. The House bill taxes the very, very wealthy.
Obama promised not to push for middle class tax increases.
I am considering not voting […]
Americans’ job satisfaction falls to record low
By JEANNINE AVERSA
WASHINGTON – We can’t get no job satisfaction.
Even Americans who are lucky enough to have work in this economy are becoming more unhappy with their jobs, according to a new survey that found only 45 percent of Americans are satisfied with their work.
That was the lowest level […]
PRESS RELEASE: Democratic Talk Radio -”Heroes and Villains of 2009 Awards”
The cast of characters in American politics who could have received our Hero and Villain Awards for 2009 was huge. It was a very busy year in American politics. We have multiple winners in both categories but still were unable to recognize everyone who deserved […]