Trade is supposed to be about trading. It is not supposed to just be a scheme to drive wages and living standards down by packing up factories and moving them across borders.
It is time for us to engage in our own sovereign duty to protect American companies, workers and jobs from the trade manipulations and schemes others engage in.
China has been selling but not buying and it's time for them to to start buying. That way we might be able use the word "trade" without wincing.
If a deficit commission with 100 members had the diversity of the American population "at the table" it would look like this.
What can a democracy like ours do when giant companies say, "Rules? We don't need no stinkin' rules! We don't got to pay you no taxes!" and "We will...
Do we really depend on "the rich" to "create" jobs? Or do jobs get created when they fill a need?
In DC the elite are gathered around tables discussing budget cuts, but not jobs to cure a deficit largely caused by a lack of jobs and tax cuts. Not at the table: women, working people, the poor or any semblance of democracy.
In 2010 Republicans and corporate front groups ran ad after ad after ad after ad claiming that Democrats had "Cut 500 billion from Medicare." Those ad...
Republicans announced something they called a "jobs plan" today. This time it's different. It really is. This time it really will create jobs inste...
As a result of Reagan-era changes, our trade deficits soared, wages stagnated, pensions disappeared, and a few extremely wealthy started getting much, much richer.
