For a nation that proudly portrays itself as the protector of democratic principles, we have done an incredibly lousy job of practicing what we preach. The result is that U.S. democracy is dying from neglect. For instance: We have a party (Republicans) devoted to making it harder, not easier forContinue Reading
Harvey Gold President Trump issued an unexpected and typically uninformed…well…stupid, executive order Thursday night creating a federal task force to investigate the U.S. Postal Service’s finances, including its pricing and workforce costs. “The USPS is on an unsustainable financial path and must be restructured to prevent a taxpayer-funded bailout,” theContinue Reading
The biggest race of the night for the Democratic party will be decided in a runoff, setting up months of yet another conflict between the establishment and its progressive wing like the one that helped propelled Donald Trump to the White House with the help of Russia. The Democratic CongressionalContinue Reading
At a sprawling steel mill on the outskirts of Philadelphia, the workers have one number in mind; and it’s not how many tons of steel produced every day, or how many hours they work. It’s where each of them falls on the plant’s seniority list. ArcelorMittal, which owns the mill,Continue Reading
On December 2, the Senate passed a tax bill that is both callous and rash. But beyond that assessment, it’s also stupid, short-sighted and will have disastrous consequences for 90% of the population. The bill is stupid because it cuts taxes for US corporations — which are enjoying record profitsContinue Reading
Harvey Gold Just as Herbert Hoover, the last Republican “businessman” did, President Trump and the GOP has implemented isolationism, personal enrichment, and a gross ignorance of knowledge about governmental economics, into a death spiral for the U.S., in the world leadership role. Incidentally, Hoover also had an all-Republican Congress atContinue Reading
Harvey Gold I ’ve been a critic of President Obama and Eric Holder’s decision to ultimately not prosecute any of the major (or even minor) perpetrators involved in the 2007 housing crash ever since I started this website a couple of years after the actual 2007 Housing Crash. In fact,Continue Reading
Harvey Gold Long before his Royal Trumpness had the balls to make it his actual campaign slogan, the Republican Party was promising to Make America Great Again. Usually couched in the imaginary language of “tradition,” Republican leaders have long celebrated the fabricated idea of an American golden era, circa 1945Continue Reading
While virtually every other country in the industrialized world is in the beginning phase of a sustainable economic revival, [despite having single-payer healthcare for all their citizens] the U.S. GOP-led Congress is trying every way they know how to toss millions of Americans off of healthcare for profit, trickling […]Continue Reading
If I had ever used the excuse to my parents that Trump’s National Security Agency Director (Admiral Michael S. Rogers), Director of National Intelligence (Daniel Coats), or Attorney General (Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions), used for not answering questions posed by the Senate Oversight Committee on Intelligence, (“I don’t want to”), […]Continue Reading
