Please send a message to Congress to demand an end to the Debt Ceiling Hostage Crisis, and help our country avoid an economic disaster.  While potential solutions have been put on the table, all have been blocked by ideologues more loyal to Grover Norquist’s “no tax” pledge than to the economic well-being of our country. […]

For all those that continuously lie and state that if we increase taxes on the rich only, there would not be enough to cover our actual requirements, they would love if you did not understand the chart below. It is not that we want to soak the rich. It is that a system was created […]

Republican Senator Alan system, the outspoken conservative has finally had it with the immaturity and unpatriotic behavior of his party members.It is interesting that on the day of his outburst the Republicans cave and is ultimately willing to give the President a clean debt extension bill in a convoluted manner. The President have not yet […]

President Obama is finally getting serious about articulating the dire consequences of Republican intransigence. In an interview on CBS he specifically states that social security payments along with many of the other 70 million federal checks may be at risk of non-payment. At the same time I heard some Tea Partiers stating that they should […]

It becomes difficult to deal with the barrage of misinformation and outright ignorance by many of the Republican politicians. It is as if these guys attempt to simply bring things up to buy time with the expectation that they will so drain thinking people that they just give up and let GOP reign. Case in […]

Don’t hold middle class hostage to interests of partisans and profiteers who cratered our economy The following letter was put together my several of us at the a civil activist group known as the Coffee Party. Dear Congress, As citizens we watch in utter despair as our Congress continues to gamble with our financial future […]

As I sit here in Starbucks working on my book I am blogging with my Motorola Xoom as I watch MSNBC on my Hewlett Packard Laptop via my Slingbox over the Internet in my home office. The technology out there is great. For all of those who want government completely out of our lives, they […]

Tax the Rich – Problem Solved Sunday 10 July 2011 by: Carl Gibson, The Cagle Post | Op-Ed What if there was a group of terrorists holding your family hostage with a gun pointed at themselves, demanding the account number to your pension fund? Would you negotiate with the terrorists by allowing them access to […]

I did the following CNN iReport a few days ago on the bad unemployment report. My resident Right Wing watchers were ready with the retorts of me being a communist inasmuch as I am a staunch free enterprise person. My concern is that we have given personhood to this thing called the corporation that has […]