Tag Archive 'employment'

Keith Ellison’s Utopia

Posted by Moonage on 17 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Fun with Numbers, Idiot of the day

Representative Keith Ellison submitted this letter to The Hill blogs:
We have to consider the 30 years of stagnant wages that your average Americans have had to face. That fact is that the reason we have people refinancing their homes, getting home equity loans, getting high rate interest credit cards and petty loans is because wages [...]

$20 billion here, $20 billion there…….

Posted by Moonage on 03 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: The Media

Nancy Pelosi had this to say about the $22 billion difference between Congress and the White House budgets:
…..Democrats want to work with the president “to negotiate the very small difference between Democrats and Republicans on these appropriations bills.“
I’m still waiting for CBS and the rest to lambast her for her obvious fiscal irresponsibility. [...]

Medicare for All

Posted by Moonage on 10 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: Health Care Debate, Polls

Democrats chided Bush the first few years he was in office as a reckless spender.  Then the economy took off and they sorta dropped it in favor of "taxing the poor and giving big tax breaks to the rich".  The never really got much traction either.  So, Ted Kennedy is pulling out the mother of [...]