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In his book, We're Right, They're Wrong, James Carville described the kind of Democrat he was by calling himself a 5/65 Democrat. That way, he said that people should either be working or going to school from the age of five to 65. It should be the business of government to not only make this as easy as possible, but they should be about protecting those beyond the two extremes.However, it is another conversation in...

As most of us know, the Buffet plan is a simply plan that calls for millionaires to pay the same percentage in actual income as those in the middle class. It is inspired by billionaire Warren Buffet who actually believes he should pay more. However, considering that the avid Fox viewer has the political acumen and knowledge of a rabies infected dog, here is how I think they should play it. I will borrow from...

Republicans want you to believe that Social Security is "broke" and "a fraud."  Nothing could be farther from the truth....

Poverty in the United States continues to grow.From The New York Times---"Another 2.6 million people slipped into poverty in the United States last year, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, and the number of Americans living below the official poverty line, 46.2 million people, was the highest number in the 52 years the bureau has been publishing figures on it. And in new signs of distress among the middle class, median household incomes fell last year to levels last...

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In these tough economic times (where jobs are scarce and corporations fierce) it is high time to take a long look at the protections that workers have. When I was a salaried employee those protections were afforded me. First, I had the protection of the contract itself. The district could not simply drop me mid-contract without cause. Furthermore, I had an established due process I could go through in the district and we had the...

Here's my TV viewing schedule for this evening. Seinfeld re-runs on TBS from 6 o 7, followed by Saints-Packers pre-game on NBC at 7, followed by the kickoff somewhere around 7:30. No speech. Why bother?By all accounts, President Obama's jobs speech before a joint session of Congress tonight will just be more of the same old, same old, Republican-lite, warmed over policies on unemployment--tax cuts. If I'm going to get yadda yadda yadda, I'd rather...

Above is a picture of Vice President Joe Biden.(Photo copyright 2011 Neil Aquino.)I took this picture on Labor Day at the Cincinnati AFL-CIO picnic.Vice President Biden spoke in the most forceful terms.He said that everyday working people were in a fight for "existence" against our extreme right-wing adversaries.He said that organized labor was one the few things keeping the "barbarians from the gate"  in terms of the rights workers to collectively organize, and in protecting the futures...

"I've been looking all over the place for a place for me, but it ain't anywhere. It just ain't anywhere.' Syd BarrettToday something happened at work that I never thought possible. I went in to our a pre-shift meeting. The supervisor came by the room and asked me to step out into his office. There he told me that it just wasn't working out. I wasn't a good fit for the position and I needed...