growls from Manhattan
America has seen two generations of great billionaires. The first was exemplified by Andrew Carnegie and the robber barons of the post civil war era. They were avaricious, imperious and dictatorial but they created a great industrial machine on which the dominance
I keep hearing people say that TARP and the Stimulus were failures. Only if you’re a Republican or someone too dumb to understand what actually happened with them. TARP was probably one of the best ideas the Bush administration ever came up
The Democrats and Republicans are gong at each other tooth and nail, battling over raising the debt limit and using that fight to advance their agendas. The Democrats want to create employment and maintain as many of our social services as possible.
The game is almost over. The politicians have now wasted months agonizing over the debt ceiling, a period of time during which, a bleeding nation has gone into intensive care without the attention of the doctors. Nothing has been done about the
If you aren’t disgusted by the gyrations of our government over the debt ceiling then you aren’t paying attention. A bunch of Tea Party and ultra conservative members of the house, are holding the rest of the United States Government hostage in
I’ve tried to stay away from this because to cover it in anything smaller than a book seems to give most of it short shrift but then I got to feeling that I’ve avoided it too long so here’s the Curmudgeon’s take
Take way the Republican’s desire to live in 1776 and there are a number of things that can be done by them, with the cooperation of the Democrats to put this country back on its feet and make this country the world
The question was; “Are you better off now than when Obama took office?” 44% said no while 34% said yes. This seems like a reasonable total considering the current situation but it’s the wrong question or at least it’s only the question
You’re probably sick of hearing about this. So am I but it’s really very important so I am writing about it once again. It seems the President is in a steel cage match with various grunts from the Republican party, all of
With the killing of Osama Bin Laden we have to take a long look at what the real situation in the Middle East has become and what we should be doing about it. Putting aside all the hysteria, all the finger pointing