Saturday, August 29, 2015

Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton at DNC Summer Meeting 2015

The DNC Summer Meeting gives candidates a chance to address DNC members and state party chairs who will have voting spots at next year’s Democratic National Convention.

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Bernie Sanders is gaining on Hillary — and fast!

The HuffPost pollster is currently tracking 120 polls from 22 pollsters for the 2016 National Democratic Primary (updated August 27, 2015):

Income Inequality and Immigration

My response to Mark Thoma at the Fiscal Times (The Politics of Income Inequality) where he writes that American workers "sense rising economic insecurity due to globalization, digital technology, and the constant chatter about robots taking their jobs."

Monday, August 24, 2015

Hip Hop song "Feel the Bern" - Bernie Sanders

Rapper Tony Tig does a very cool "Feel the Bern" hip-hop theme song for Senator Bernie Sanders (I created the video.)

In other news...

Saturday, August 22, 2015

The GOP will only screw young Republicans on Social Security

...and anyone else under the age of 55 years old. So don't vote against your own economic best interests. Older Republicans don't give a crap about you, because: They already got theirs!

Thursday, August 20, 2015

This is what government corruption looks like...

Via a Credo petition (August 20, 2015) When Treasury Secretary Jack Lew left Citigroup for the Obama administration in 2009, his contract with the megabank guaranteed him a $1 million bonus for taking any “full time high level position with the U.S. government or regulatory body.”

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Hillary Clinton: Another Cookie-Cutter Politician

Bernie is not, but here's why he hasn't attacked Hillary — with some artistic editing ;)

After Bernie Sanders had been previously leading Hillary Clinton in the Iowa straw poll, the Iowa Secretary of State reports that after day 6 Hillary has pulled slightly ahead. Why? Because of her supposedly "evolving" positions further to the left?

Monday, August 17, 2015

Fast-Food Worker's Ultimatum

Washington Post: Minimum-Wage Offensive Could Speed Arrival of Robot Powered Restaurants

Now a major motion picture, coming soon to a theater near you!

The Ultimatum

McDonald’s To Open 25,000 Robot-Run Restaurants By 2016
http://newsexaminer.net/food/mcdonalds-to-open-25000-robot-run-stores-by-2016/ 

I wonder when McDonalds will use tax inversion the way Burger King did to avoid taxes.
http://www.americansfortaxfairness.org/burger-king-inversion-report/

Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump on Immigration

* I was surprised to see that, when it comes to immigration, the two front-runners in the 2016 presidential election (Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders) have very similar opinions in their immigration policies about H-1B guestworker visas — work permits for foreign workers that are used by corporations to underpay their employees and depress domestic wages, while keeping American workers unemployed. A man running as a conservative Republican and another man running as a progressive Democrat seem to agree: Allowing MORE undocumented immigrants into the U.S. does not bode well for a labor force with high unemployment and stagnant wages.

Sunday, August 16, 2015

#BlackVotesMatter to Hillary Clinton

While in Iowa Senator Bernie Sanders said that the tens of thousands of people who turn out to his rallies aren't "registered Democrats," just "ordinary people" — and that's one of his main advantages in the race.

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Donald Trump Opposes Rand Paul's Flat Tax

In July 2003, Fox News host Sean Hannity paid $3,450,000 for his beachfront mansion on over two acres of land in Huntington, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. Just like Bill O'Reilly, Fox News pays Sean Hannity very well. But it seems that the more they make, the more they both obsess over taxes — because they never think the rich are rich enough.

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Officer Randall Kerrick: Innocent of Killing Jonathan Ferrell?

Jonathan Ferrell while at A&M University
Jonathan Ferrell while at A&M University

On September 14, 2013 in Charlotte, North Carolina a former Florida A&M University football player, 24-year-old Jonathan Ferrell, had met with a group of friends and co-workers at a restaurant. At some point at the end of the night (after dropping one of his friends off at home), the car he was driving slid off the road and crashed into an embankment along a woody stretch of Reedy Creek Road.

#BlackLivesMatter Blocks Major Interstate (I-70 St. Louis)

The Kardashians. I don’t the understand the fascination with these type of silly reality TV shows. Sure, at first it was slightly amusing (like watching a car wreck at a NASCAR race). But many people are glued to these type of programs all the time. The latest Kardashian news made a Florida TV anchor walk off the set. The "news" that day was that Kylie Jenner had named her pet rabbit "Bruce"!

Political Corruption and Corporate Greed Killed the Middle-Class

Because, as Donald Trump so honestly pointed out, our elected politicians do the bidding of the their biggest campaign donors, who also just happen to wield the most economic power. So when a big corporate job creator like Donald Trump calls a local member of Congress and says, "I think that law will be bad for my business" — the politicians listen and vote accordingly.

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Bernie Sanders passes Hillary Clinton — Feel the Bern!

AUGUST 12, 2015 --- Bernie Sanders surged ahead of Hillary Clinton in a stunning new 2016 poll. The poll gives Sanders a 44-37 lead over Clinton in New Hampshire. (Links at Business Insider and Boston Herald). Bernie's surge should be a "wake up call" for the Clinton campaign (via Boston Herald). Hillary Clinton's N.H. pal is "a bit surprised’ by Bernie Sanders' poll leap (via Boston Herald).

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

DNC, Clinton, Soros, #BlackLivesMatter vs. Bernie Sanders

Last April when Nancy Cordes from CBS News asked Bernie Sanders how he (who is against PAC money) can possibly compete with George Soros (who supports Hillary Clinton) and the Koch brothers (who supports either Scott Walker, Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul or Marco Rubio), Bernie replied:

Monday, August 10, 2015

Clinton, Black Lives Matter, Ferguson

Politicians will promise ANYTHING to get elected ... and borrow other people's ideas when they realize how popular they are...

Sunday, August 9, 2015

How George Soros Attacks Bernie Sanders for Hillary Clinton

First, we have to ask ourselves: What has Barack Obama (as a black president) and Eric Holder (as a black U.S. attorney general) accomplished for the African-American community over the past 7 years — meaning, what did they do to reform the criminal judicial system, local law enforcement agencies and the state prison systems?

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Fox News Megyn Kelly Insults Donald Trump at GOP Debate (video and transcript)

...and in front of 24 million viewers.

Megyn Kelly insults Donald Trump

In her very first question for Donald Trump at the very first GOP primary debate, Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly had asked Donald Trump, in what many people thought was in a mean-spirited and hostile demeanor:

The Living Wage Calculator

New from MIT: A "Living Wage Calculator" (select your State on the right side of the page, then select your county.)

Friday, August 7, 2015

Fox Bashes Trump, but he still Wins

GOP debate: One winner, the rest were losers.

A poll by popular vote at the Drudge Report scores Donald Trump the big winner in the late GOP debate last night — but media pundits disagree.

Thursday, August 6, 2015

The GOP Debates Sponsored by Fox News and Facebook

The first Republican presidential primary debates of the 2016 election will air tonight at 9pm to 11pm EST on Fox News (moderated by Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly, and Chris Wallace); and it will be co-sponsored by Facebook — whose co-founder renounced his U.S. citizenship to avoid paying income taxes.

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Bernie Sanders: He...could...go...all...the...way!

But first, the news...

David Cay Johnston on flat wages, the minimum wage and labor unions: "Without real growth in wages, the economy cannot grow, because the capacity of people to buy goods and services will remain flat."

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

$21 Trillion Hidden in Offshore Accounts

The world's super-rich have taken advantage of lax tax rules to siphon off at least $21 trillion, and possibly as much as $32 trillion, from their home countries and hide it abroad — a sum larger than the entire American economy. And almost half of the minimum estimate of $21 trillion ($9.8 trillion) is owned by just 92,000 people.

Monday, August 3, 2015

Clinton and Biden vs. Bernie Sanders — vs. Donald Trump

At a conference at the Koch brothers' retreat, five GOP presidential contenders — former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Senator Ted Cruz (Tex.), former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, Senator Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker — all made appearances at the posh weekend retreat, held on the grounds of the St. Regis Monarch Beach, with dazzling views of the misty-blue Pacific Ocean.

In response to this news, Donald Trump had tweeted:

Sunday, August 2, 2015

Wages, Social Security and Perpetual Dynasty Trust Funds

(* Editor's Note: This was also posted at the Economic Populist as "Fed Up with Stagnant Wages and Corrupt Politicians")

For the past 40 years, our political leaders have not only allowed, but have deliberately effectuated economic polices that have crammed most of the profits generated by ordinary working people into the pockets of those at the very tippy-top of the income ladder — by conspiring against organized labor, giving preferential tax breaks to the very wealthy, and by allowing bad trade deals to offshore our best jobs.

Saturday, August 1, 2015

Stagnant Wages Reason for Social Security Shortfall

"Wage Growth Continues to be the Key to Social Security Solvency"

Originally posted on July 24, 2015 by Dean Baker at the Center for Economic Policy Research