Economic Issues

Tax codes are no fun to sift through.  There are temporary regulations that are superseded by new regulations and histories of regulations that make me glad for Wikipedia.  I hate digging through them, but I felt the need to recently after reading an article

In a disgusting display, even by TEApublican standards, Stephen Fincher (R-TN) quoted the “Book of Thessalonians” from the New Testament to justify letting the poor starve.  Fincher smugly stated on the House floor: The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat. Of

Stupid is as stupid does.  Something that the GOP hasn’t been as loud about in recent weeks is their demand that the IRS audit the AARP.  Yes, they felt that the American Association of Retired Citizens must be audited and given extra scrutiny for

Nowadays, the American public has come to accept just about anything from the intransigent Republican Congress and their right-wing echo chamber.  However, their new plot to undermine President Obama with manufactured scandals takes their abhorrent behavior to a whole new height. A new bombshell

When the Conservative wave of Tea Party Republicans (Teapublians for short) rose into office on massive worry over the future of our economy, jobs seemed to be the main focus of that drive.  The Tea parties around the country pushed an agenda of anger

By Omar Rivero from Occupy Democrats By now, most of America realizes that the Republican Party’s new-found concern for “jobs” right before the 2010 congressional midterm elections was a shameless ruse, particularly given the fact that they haven’t mentioned the word ever again since

Yes, the Affordable Care Act (AKA “Obamacare”) is working, but you won’t hear that from right wing talk radio fascists, or Fox News. Tea Party radicals in congress have voted over 35 times to repeal the healthcare law, which House Speaker John Boehner called

What in the world are Tea Partiers so angry about? Their dreams of taking America back from the Socialists/Marxists/Communists/anti-imperialists on behalf of corporate America are absolutely ridiculous, given the fact that America is already bought-and-paid for by the corporations! Like zombie soldiers, they are

When President Obama took office, the previous Bush administration bequeathed to him an imploded economy that was bleeding out 780,000 jobs each month. With the private sector having added 2.2 million jobs over the past year, there is no doubt that the president has

The CBO has stated in a recent report that GOP spending cuts are not helping the deficit. John Boehner turned his attention quickly over to Benghazi as the reports were made public. PoliticusUSA reported recently on the new information. On Tuesday, the non-partisan Congressional