Groobiecat – one of the IACWE admins – has already achieved Politifact fame as his claim that ”federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly 60 years” during Obama’s presidency was rated as “Mostly True” (SOURCE).  Another chart HERE; frankly – these cuts in government spending are what is HOLDING BACK the U.S. economy. [...]

This isn’t what free enterprise is supposed to look like … a group of millionaires buy out a profitable company, cut worker’s salaries and health benefits – then load it with debt …. then walk away with millions.  With Bain Capital having raided the pension fund … the government had to step in and pay [...]

As we have already shared HERE and HERE – women make a lot less than men at comparable jobs.  Women make $.77 for every $1 that a man makes and it gets worse if the woman is Hispanic or African-American.  The Harvard Business Review tries to figure out why.  If you don’t negotiate – you’ll [...]

“So it should concern everyone that right now – all across America – tens of thousands of teachers are getting laid off. In Pennsylvania alone, there are 9,000 fewer educators in our schools today than just a year ago. In Ohio, the number is close to 7,000. And nationwide, over the past three years, school [...]

Most people don’t realize that President Obama has cut more taxes than any other President in modern history.  The rates are lower under every single income bracket.  And even though I abhore the notion that America’s wealthiest continue to get a free ride on the backs of the middle class without paying their fair share [...]

I find it amazing how contradictory the “conservative” position is on contract law.  Let’s go back to 2009 – after Americans of all ideologies were in a tither about greedy bankers receiving bailouts with taxpayer money and then still immediately paying out billions to Wall Street traders and executives.  America just bailed their asses out [...]

“He wants another stimulus.  He wants to hire more government workers.  He says we need more fireman, more policemen, more teachers.  Did he not get the message of Wisconsin?  The American people did…it’s time to cut back on government.” ~Mitt Romney It’s pretty common for conservatives to talk about cutting government spending – that’s all [...]

“I’m hard-pressed to see why we shouldn’t have the same [minimum] wage we did in the late ‘60s.  This isn’t welfare. By definition, we’re talking about people who are working. It gets a lot of sympathy from the public, and guess what? It’s good for the economy right now.” ~Economist Dean Baker  House Democrats proposed [...]

93% of the economists surveyed by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business believed that the Obama stimulus i.e. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 helped reduce unemployment.  But when factoring in the potential costs of either raising taxes to address the deficit spending – only 14% of the economists surveyed felt the [...]

Mitt Romney lies a lot.  We’ve written a lot about that HERE and John King from CNN and the NY Times called him out on his lies HERE…but today – it was just kind of like another wow moment.  Remember – he doesn’t say this because he thinks he’s so smart – he lies to you because he [...]