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Mitt Romney says that he is not concerned about the very poor. That is because the very poor don’t vote, and the GOP is changing voting laws so that middle-class Democratic voters can’t vote either....
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Freedom
Image via Wikipedia When I was young and naive, I believed in a lot of things like free markets, less regulation, and work hard and you’ll succeed. I worked hard and I succeeded…for a while. Then I...
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Unions are good for democracy
Color logo of the National Labor Relations Board, an independent agency of the United States federal government. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As union membership in the US has declined, so have the...
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Why I support unions
Brandeisa (Photo credit: Wikipedia) When I was young and naive, I supported the arguments of those who criticized unions. I think that I have heard every possible argument against unions and I bought...
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Capitalism doesn’t ensure equal results
Bill O’Reilly at the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, September 30, 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) That is the title of an op-ed appearing in today’s newspaper authored by Bill O’Reilly. In it,...
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Unions?
A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford during a strike on March 28, 2006, with members carrying picket signs. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Now I am seeing some posts saying that unions were necessary...
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Yardstick
In the days and months ahead as the lame duck Congress and then the new Congress debate measures to grow the economy and shrink the national debt, I recommend measuring progress by how the measures,...
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We must fight
speaking at CPAC in Washington D.C. on February 10, 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) We must fight was the title of an email message I just received from Paul Ryan. In that message, he says, “We believe...
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The missing middle
Outsourcing-offshoring-resized (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The middle is missing in both our economy and in our politics. One is linked to the other and that is the problem. Both must be restored to...
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