The article below “Family Net Worth Drops to Level of Early ’90s, Fed Says” is simply a confirmation of what most of us have known, assumed, and felt for the last several years. Let me be clear, the continual decline of the middle class is provably the result of supply side economics instituted by Ronald […]

    Shareholders and activists are gathering in Chicago today to protest corporate political spending, and Target stands front and center in their bullseye. Target’s political spending practices have landed the company in hot water before, so shareholders are rightfully concerned. In 2010, Target came under fire for contributing $150,000 to MN Forward, a group […]

I saw the article that follows below and it got me thinking. Folks, it is not about class envy. It is about the survival of the country. We have been programmed to believe that any commentary about the wealthy’s disproportionate share of our nation’s income, wealth, or political power is either class envy or class […]

  Every time I hear these stories it really upsets me. It does not upset me for the reason most people think it does. First, I am black. I will not be using this N-word crap. Let’s speak like adults. After all this is my blog and I say as I please. That said, here […]

From the time you are employed over 15% of your wages were taken away for Social Security and Medicare. If you are employed by someone else you paid about 7.5% and your employer paid the other 7.5%. If you are self-employed you pay it all. Inasmuch as we say the employer pays 7.5% for you, […]

When President Obama came into the oval office the labor force was shrinking at catastrophic levels. This type of job loss was a result of policies that are substantially still in effect. What really stopped the job losses was a Keynesian stimulus that put money into the hands of Americans and employers who would spend […]

I dedicated my show Politics Done Right yesterday June 2nd, 2012 to the Wisconsin recall election. The show quickly turned to vulture capitalism effected by private equity firms like Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital. It addressed the issues of how these companies extract wealth from the working middle class that only benefit the politically connected and […]

This morning on my way to the gym at around 4:28 I was listening to NPR and they were discussing healthcare for folks with mental problems. A mother described an event that occurred with her daughter at an emergency room. Her daughter has manic episodes and she was kept in a closet size room in […]