To fix the Labor Shortage, Start With the Wage Shortage June 10, 2021At a recent congressional hearing on America’s so-called “labor shortage,” megabanker Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, offered this insight: “People...
Should “Workforce” mean forcing workers to take crappy jobs? June 8, 2021A recent headline blared: “Labor shortages end when wages rise.” Gosh, Captain Obvious, what an amazing discovery! Someone notify the...
Let’s Create a Bank System That Serves People, Instead of Bankers June 3, 2021Corporate ideologues never cease blathering that government programs should be run like a business. Really – what businesses would they...
Your Dog Knows Better Than To Let The GOP “Fix” Our Postal System June 1, 2021When Donald Trump declared he would fix the US Postal Service, he was using the word “fix” the same way...
Banker Greed That Would Even Shock Woody Guthrie May 27, 2021Woody Guthrie had a lot to say about the greed of bankers who made crop loans at usurious interest rates...
What’s Under Sid Miller’s Thousand-Dollar Hat? May 25, 2021The agriculture commissioner of Texas, Sid Miller, is the one top official in our state willing to take a bold...
The Plutocrats Cry, People Cheer May 20, 2021“Outrageous,” screeched the US Chamber of Commerce. “It doesn’t feel fair,” whimpered a top corporate executive. The wailing by those...
What Floats Jeff Bezos’ Boat May 18, 2021Not only are the rich different from you and me – they’re getting more different than ever. I’m not referring...
Can Corporate Profit and Morality Be Compatible? May 13, 2021Is “corporate ethics” an oxymoron? Do you have to be a jerk to be a successful CEO? Is exploitation the...
How About an Award for Sleaziest Corporate Profiteering? May 11, 2021We’ve got the Academy Awards, the Emmy’s, and GRAMMYs… but what should we call the award for the most extraordinary...
Are CEOs Really “Worth” Millions of Dollars? May 6, 2021These days, the haughty rich in our country have developed such an arrogant sense of self-entitlement that they’ve gone from...
Rich Whites Trying to Suppress Native Americans. Again May 4, 2021It’s tough being rich. For one thing, you have to be on constant alert to keep commoners from encroaching on...
Should Water Be A Wet Dream for Wall Street Speculators April 29, 2021Oh great – here comes a new stealth attack on the fragile, life-sustaining natural resources of Planet Earth. This assault...
Why Do We Celebrate Earth Day? April 27, 2021Why all this hoopla about Earth Day, grump the barons of Big Oil and other corporate plunderers of our natural...
To Bust Monopoly Powers, Start With Dinner April 22, 2021What if we took monopoly out of our daily diets? Busting the power of abusive and arrogant food monopolists would...
Monopoly Is What’s For Dinner April 20, 2021No longer just a parlor game, monopoly is what’s for dinner. Practically every commodity and every step in producing our...
How the corporate plutocracy works April 15, 2021An old political truism notes that, “Where there’s a will, there are 1,000 won’ts.” And what a hurricane of won’ts...
Is America big enough to Go Big again? April 13, 2021It’s time for America to go back to the future – a future of true greatness created by a people...
Hey Washington: Follow The People April 8, 2021“Those in the know” say that We the People should forget any progressive fantasy that – at long last –...
Forget Trickle-Down BS – Let’s Push Percolate-up Economics April 6, 2021The past year proves that a lot of conventional economic wisdom is neither true nor wise. For example: “We don’t...
Can GOP Autocracy Outlaw American Democracy? April 1, 2021Ralph Waldo Emerson told of a dinner guest who went on and on about the virtue of honesty, offering his...
Are You a “Low-Quality” Voter? March 30, 2021Hey, you, get away from those polling places! We don’t want your kind here! Scram! That’s a stupid, shameful, and...
Now, Robots are Coming for White-Collar Jobs March 25, 2021In CorporateSpeak, there are no “job cuts.” Instead, firings are blandly referred to as “employment adjustments.” Now, though, corporate wordsmiths...
Is Your Job in the Robot Kill Path? March 23, 2021Hunters have come up with euphemisms to make what they do sound… well, less unpleasant. For example, animals aren’t killed,...
A Question of Nature March 18, 2021When corporate executives are absurdly hypocritical, yet so obtuse that they don’t even realize it, is it still hypocrisy… or...
