Campaign finance reform

Head & Shoulders above the rest of us, a new Era is upon us, as Mr. Clean Always turns the Tide of elections with Bold donations to Safeguard us. P&G buys politicians so don’t buy their products.

As the Occupy Wall Street movement has called for the public financing of our elections and the end of corporate “personhood” we get a great story out of the Cincinnati Enquirer on how the consumer products behemoth first denies then admits, that they buy political influence with their billions: Procter & Gamble on Thursday disclosed Read More

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AA status for a third world country

Standard & Poor’s is extracting an ounce of payback on the United States after they were ridiculed and had their wrists slapped for rating Lehman Brothers an A, a month before bankruptcy. The problems- as with most of our problems in the United States- comes back to the fact that we’ve been forced to employ Read More

How to get small business moving, Mr. Immelt?

When did Dayton become the first stop on the bullshit express? We had John McCain go rogue and introduce Sarah Palin as his secret weapon at the Nutter Center- and now, we get a junta of overpaid CEOs from big business trying to figure out how to create jobs via small business: The President’s Council Read More

The Feds shut down the wrong casino

Let’s see- GE pays no corporate taxes. We have hedge fund managers collecting billions a year– while making the global economy fail. Angelo Mozilo gets to pay back a pittance of his pay in return for throwing millions of Americans into foreclosure- but no criminal prosecution. Ignore the 10% unemployment figures, ignore the US workers Read More

The collective bargaining clusterduck

There is a problem with what unions have come to represent in this country. No longer are they the voice of the workers- they’ve become a cash cow for Democratic lawmakers- the same way Wall Street has done for lawmakers willing to look the other way on regulation. The real issue isn’t workers’ rights to Read More

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