Pope Francis has been striving to implement different reforms since being elected to the papacy in March of this year. He just released his first major work since taking office and it is already causing controversy. In the Pope’s work, titled Evangelii Gaudium, he calls for a financial system that serves rather than rules, and tells […]
Tag: economy
Elizabeth Warren To Obama: Break Up The Banks…and Bring on Hillary? (VIDEO)
On Tuesday, is a speech to the Roosevelt Institute and Americans for Financial Reform, Massachusetts Senator, Elizabeth Warren challenged Wall Street and her President on “Too Big to Fail.” “Where are we in making sure behemoth institutions on Wall Street can’t bring down the economy again? And make wild gambles that suck up all the […]
Where Are The Unions?
I found this article “The Middle Class Does Better In States With Lots Of Union Members” by Alan Pyke, on thinkprogess.org It states, “The middle class brings home a substantially larger share of aggregate earnings in states that have high rates of union membership than in those where fewer workers are organized, a Center for […]
President Obama, Be A Liberal When You Can
Recall Election Day, November 2008. A racial milestone, incapable of repossession had been passed, liberals and the working poor would reclaim the ground lost in the last 30 years. I can still see the footage of black men and women with grey-tinged hair weeping, groups of men in hardhats seeing a fair shake in sight. […]
Elizabeth Warren Fires On The Supreme Court, Saying They Will End Up A 'wholly-owned subsidiary of Big Business’ (VIDEO)
This weekend at the AFL-CIO’s annual convention, Massachusetts Senator (D), Elizabeth Warren commented on the future of the Supreme Court, saying, “Think about this: you follow this pro-corporate trend to its logical conclusion, and sooner or later, you’ll end up with a Supreme Court that functions as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Big Business,” Warren did […]
Batter Up, Mr. President
Reading Michael Tomasky’s piece in The Daily Beast, I had this strange feeling of déjà vu come over me. “My favorite presidential sentence in quite some time was uttered over the weekend by Barack Obama, or whenever exactly he sat down and told The New York Times what it quoted him as saying Sunday: “I […]