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Category: Jobs and Economy
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This election campaign focused tightly on one candidate’s apparent sexual adventures and the other candidate’s emails. How important are both of these issues to the future welfare of our nation, and for that matter, the world? Think about it. Donald Trump’s apparently boorish, sexist behavior certainly makes him a distasteful person, but would it make…
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There was a time when you could tell by your nose where you were in Milwaukee. When you felt the sour, sweet odors of animal renderings impregnate your senses you knew you were likely crossing the old 6th Street viaduct; scattered across the acres under the bridge and to either side stood Milwaukee’s thriving packinghouse…
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Why is it that I have the impression that liberals are losing the battles? Yet, I wonder: How can that be when you analyze the polls about various issues and find the public as a rule favoring individually virtually every major progressive piece of legislation? Take the idea of taxing the wealthy and the corporations. …
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Dems can’t afford to ‘cave-in’ as Indiana did in 83-20 defeat Many liberals and progressives are demoralized over the results of the November 2nd elections, ready to give in to the corporate-supported public policy agenda that is being rammed through by smug, arrogant Republicans. Case in point: The waffling by the White House and key…
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In the past century, the 1900s, two major changes occurred in the United States — the improvement in living standards for working people and the growing inclusiveness for minorities, principally blacks. In both cases, the nation was better for those changes. In the first incidence, a strong middle class was developed putting money into the…
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Scott Brown, so full of glee that he joyously peddled his daughters as “available,” (though one apparently wasn’t), proclaimed his Massachusetts seat win was a “people’s victory.” Wrong! The winners were those who would do very little to really help ordinary folks, middle class working families and the struggling poor. The winners were: The health…
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No, I won’t make a New Year’s Resolution this year. Over the last few years, I’ve vowed to cure my addiction to reruns of “Law and Order,” the original and all of its offsprings, but alas, I seem to violate it on the very next “Law and Order” marathon day. I’ve concluded I can’t be…
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When people are hurting, they will turn to almost anyone who offers hope – even if that hope is nothing but a mirage. Today, as nearly one out of every five Americans are without work or are seriously underemployed, there is much hopelessness and this is virgin territory for demagogues. Enter Sarah Palin. There’s a…
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I can’t help but reflect on how difficult the world is becoming. President Obama is trying his mightiest, but the problems he is trying to resolve seem insurmountable. President Bush left this nation in a terrible state, due largely to two things: our involvement in unwinnable and unnecessary conflicts in the Middle East and a…
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