It never ceases to amaze me, even though we shouldn't be shocked: the "free market" leaders fail--but, no worries, they still walk off with a pile of money, while average people get shafted. And the song remains the same at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly employment report, and it’s not good: we’ve now seen eight straight months of increasing unemployment:
One of the great lies that Wal-Mart perpetrates on our national debate is that it is a paragon of the so-called "free market". In truth, Wal-Mart's model of low wages and cheap prices could not survive without broad government support, not the least of which is health care.
After I blogged yesterday on the decidedly ill-informed Wall Street Journal op-ed regarding the Employee Free Choice Act, I got to wondering why the Journal wasted ink and paper on a bill that died in the Senate nearly 1½ years ago on a 51-48 cloture vote.
Now that you’ve heard Senator Hillary Clinton’s speech, can you please stop peddling the nonsense about her not being 100% behind Barack Obama for President?
