Archive for the ‘Wall Street’ Category

Who will Benefit and be Hurt by the Budget /Debt Deal

Monday, August 1st, 2011

Good story from The Nation about who will benefit and be hurt by the budget /debt deal.  Guess what?  Workers and the poor are getting screwed, and the Masters of the Universe will get off scot-free. Congress (might) pass a debt deal [1] this week that would raise the debt ceiling ...

Union jobs with Living Wage for All

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

Verizon workers in the IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) and CWA (Communication Workers of America) rallied for good union jobs on Saturday July 30. They demand that the profitable and highly subsidized telcom company stop trying to take workers’ conditions back to the 19th century. [caption id="attachment_77" align="aligncenter" width="487" caption="Workers ...

The Denial Economy

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

I’m tired of people giving me the “wink,wink” about the economy and the government/banks plan to “fix” it. I was talking to some dude recently and at first he was like, “We have to spend this money to get things going again.”    “Like hell we do,” says me. ...

I try not to Hate People

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

I try not to hate people.  It really is a lot of wasted energy in most cases, but there is one small sector of society that I just can’t seem to find much love for.   I have a hard time seeing that great universal energy flow that ...

Bear Stearns Bankers: The Weapons of Mass Destruction

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Hey I finally found the weapons of mass destruction and guess what? They were right here in the good ol’ USA all the time. They’ve been hiding in plain sight, and quite frankly I’m sad to say that only a country that has been blinded by a government and ...