What could be more American than football and the Superbowl? Ironically football — as practiced in the US — is socialist. Now, this doesn’t mean I’m promoting socialism. I’m a hard core capitalist and I believe in free enterprise. But I’m also pragmatic enough to realize that there are situations where free market capitalism doesn’t […]
© Jim Morin Are they purposely ignoring us, or do they have a hearing problem?
The Republicans have controlled the house for just two weeks (and still have a minority in the Senate), but when new job numbers came out that show the economy is growing and unemployment is falling, that didn’t stop the GOP from trying to take credit. Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyle (R-AZ) claimed that soaring corporate […]
Republicans who are gearing up to repeal the health care reform bill are trying to make the case that health care reform is bad for jobs. They even named the repeal bill the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act”. Now they are claiming that 650,000 jobs will be lost as a result of HCR, […]
Cenk Uygur does a good job of pointing out the utter hypocrisy of the Republicans pretending to care about the middle class.
The Republican Party is trying to stop the Federal Reserve from helping to lower unemployment. It is bad enough that the Republicans opposed the federal version of Mitt Romney’s health care plan, the continuation of Dubya’s bank bailout, and the (failed) attempt to pass John McCain’s climate bill, but now they are opposing Milton Friedman’s […]
© Tom Toles The other side of this catch 22 is that corporations are using their cash reserves to buy other companies, which further reduces the number of employed workers. Or they hire overseas workers. And then they wonder why the economy is doing so bad.
© Ruben Bolling I know these characters are supposed to be dogs (hounds actually) but they look like pigs to me!
華人民共和國國 務院總理 中央人民政 府政务院总理 华中公务员人民 共和国 [reprinted from Bullseye Rooster. Does anyone know what this means in English?]
© Jen Sorensen This isn’t really all that crazy. I watched almost the same thing happen in England in the 80’s. A friend of mine who is a brilliant computer programmer was trying to get a job in England, but he could get a higher salary working in a bank. He moved to the US, […]
Maybe I’m just angry today, but I rather enjoyed this rant by Senator Bernie Sanders. I am in no way a socialist, but I would have trouble disagreeing with much of what he says here: History shows us that many of the countries that went socialist or communist in the last century did so because […]
To celebrate the fact that millions of Americans are about to lose their unemployment benefits just in time for Christmas, Glenn Beck declared that we have been sold a lie that the poor in America are suffering. In fact, Beck, the master of me me me, labeled the poor “greedy” and said “What’s poverty in […]
© Ed Stein (read his comments on the comic too) Reagan promised us that if we cut taxes for the rich, they would create jobs and prosperity for the rest of us. But all that has happened is that the gap between the rich and the poor has grown by leaps and bounds. In fact, […]
Frank Rich has a fantastic rant in the NY Times about how our government is completely controlled by big money, “the big money that dominates our political system, regardless of who’s in power.” And the situation is getting worse, not better. Ever wonder why our government is so screwed up? Go read it, now. In […]
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